Creamsicle

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This post is for a 2012 Ice Cream Cupcake Contest! Links are above!


I don't usually give out a lot of recipes but these are special and must be shared! There is two versions of this wonderful creation: liquor infused and virgin!


Are you ready?


We start with the nice version.


Like most cakes we have: flour, sugar, baking powder, salt in the dry version and for extra kick we add TANG!





Wonderful and you won't get that orangy flavor without it.


Now in a bowl we leave them in there (no sifting) just whisk it together and leave it be.
Wet ingredients: butter, milk, vegetable oil, extract (orange and vanilla) and eggs. Add eggs last and one at a time, please.


Baking at 325F for 25 minutes. I choose regular or jumbo, no minis (the filling doesn't really work well with them)




Now the ICE CREAM part!
This is where the naughty part comes in.

Alcohol infused ice cream.
We can choose to cheat and pick up  your favorite vanilla ice cream and add favorite liquor. Choices are endless (whiskey, flavored vodka, flavored liquor.)  


We can make the ice cream (with ice cream maker) or my favorite way: heavy whipping cream = cool whip. Adding sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract and a little bit of powdered sugar to stabilize it. First whip the heave whipping cream to whipped cream then adding other ingredients and letting it chill in piping bag. (Lets say anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours) 


Now frosting: we are close to the end of a creamsicle cupcakes: we have the orange cake - a ice cream filling (with or without some booze) and ending with more orange frosting. 


Now I like buttercream but it might be to heavy for such a light summery pop, so either don't use so much, thin it out (with heavy whipping cream not milk) or use swiss meringue buttercream.


Now powdered sugar (or regular sugar with SMB) butter, vanilla and orange extract.


There you go: Creamsicle Cupcakes! With real ice cream filling! I hope you all enjoy and wish me luck!


P.S. Have you heard of infused sugars? Of course you have! 



That up there is orange infused sugar and makes everything better - learn more here.