The Best Jelly Doughnut Cupcakes
Donut like cupcakes with buttercream icing and filled with strawberry jelly
Ingredients
- CUPCAKES
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted and cooled slightly
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup milk
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ cup strawberry or raspberry jelly/jam
- powdered sugar
Instructions
- CAKE:
- In a medium bowl whisk melted butter and sugar until well mixed
- Add eggs one at a time, and then stir in vanilla
- In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg in a bowl.
- Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients
- Spoon batter into muffin tins with paper liners. Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes. Remove and allow to cool for 10 minutes
- Use a piping tip or a small sharp knife to carve out a small hole in the middle of the cupcake, and put the remove pieces of cake aside. After adding the jelly, you'll put these pieces back on top of the hole.
- ASSEMBLING YOUR CUPCAKES:
- Place jelly into a small pastry bag. You can also use a small ziplock bag and cut off the corner
- Using the piping bag insert jelly into the middle of the cupcake, and then cover with the piece of cupcake you removed to seal up the top.
- Sprinkle powdered sugar over the top
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