Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Frosting

Name: Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Frosting
Yield: Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients: 1½ cups (7½ ounces), unbleached all-purpose flour; 1 cup, granulated sugar (7 ounces); 1½ teaspoons, baking powder; ½ teaspoon, table salt; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 stick), room temperature; ½ cup, sour cream; 1 , large egg plus 2 large yolks; 1½ teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1 cup, heavy cream; 8 ounces, semisweet chocolate, chopped

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2003

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Cakes

SERVESMakes 12 cupcakes

TIME1¼ hours, plus 45 minutes cooling and 45 minutes chilling

Yellow Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Frosting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In search of a yellow cupcake recipe that would be good enough to satisfy the parents at a kids’ birthday party, we discovered that simply dumping flour, eggs, sugar, butter, and sour cream into a mixing bowl and mixing produced the desired...

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