these cupcakes are simple and quaint i think. very much not-fussy in any way…unless you overfill your cups like i did the first time. that really has nothing to do with flavor and everything to do with aesthetics, but it irks me either way. despite my love for cinnamon and cream cheese and honey…i didn’t really love these cupcakes. the flavors were flat somehow. i think i’ll use the basic recipe for the batter again. i like the crumb and they were tender, but just lacking.
“breathe in, breathe out, carry on, carry out…”
listening : don’t wanna know why, whiskeytown
cinnamon cupcakes
adapted from simply recipes
1 1/2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 egg, plus 2 egg whites at room temperature
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
preheat oven to 350 F and line a muffin tin (12) with liners or spray well.
combine flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a bowl, whisk together.
beat butter in mixer until creamy, add sugar and beat until light and fluffly. scrpe and add egg and whites one at a time, beating for 30 seconds after each addition and being sure to scrape the bowl. add vanilla and beat to combine.
add flour and buttermilk alternately, beginning and ending with flour, until just combined. fill lined or sprayed cupcake tin with batter (about 3/4 up the sides) and bake for 18-20 minutes.
cool on a rack completely before frosting.
honey cream cheese icing
this is a pretty loose frosting, i just kind of threw it together. it sets nicely in the refrigerator.
1 8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon honey (more or less depending on how strong your honey is)
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
combine all ingredients into a bowl and using a hand mixer, blend well until creamy and fluffy.
over the weekend angela, from my year without spending, presented me with a kreativ blogger award…very exciting! so, basically you get to learn 7 things about me you didn’t know, here goes!
1. i always have been and still am afraid of the dark. when i turn the lights off in the house at night (if i don’t make sean do it for me) i run/skip from room to room very quickly and then end it all with a little squeal of relief when i land in my bed.
2. when i was 18 and working as a lifeguard i broke the tip of my tail bone off at work.
3. i wear jeans and a cardigan or hoodie every day usually with my old, white cons. i own quite a few dresses, but i never seem to be brave enough to get out the door in one. this is only one of my many habits that seem to rule my days.
4. i love a sad song. i can’t really explain it, but there’s this singular feeling i get and it’s comforting.
5. i’m in love with love…and lousy poetry. that’s from a weakerthans song, but, it’s true.
6. i’m shy and can be very awkward. this often leads people to believe that i am bitchy and unfriendly. i’m not, i’m just terrified of them. then, if you get to know me, you realize i’m kind of a wacky goof.
7. i am very protective of my friends and family. once one of my friends went through an abrupt and awful break-up after many years of being together. when we moved her out of their house, i threw one of his favorite shoes off the deck and into oblivion…that’s what happens when you hurt my friend, i will inconvenience you. she doesn’t know i did it…shhhh, it’s a secret 😉
so…i’m passing this on to a few lovely gals:
natalie : the southern hostess
deb : your destiny is stone golden
Beautiful photographs. You have a gift. Nice to meet you.
Yay-
Love this post and love the bit about you throwing the ex’s shoe of the deck.
I’ll post mine sometime this week!
xoxo
yay whiskeytown!
thank you so much for the award. 🙂 i wear jeans and a cardigan every day too, dresses and i just don’t agree, even though i love them.
Well, they sure do look tasty. Thanks for the award! I need to get to it!
Lovely cupcakes!
Congrats on your award! Bummer about the cupcakes lack of flavor. The frosting sounds good! 🙂
~ingrid
I love the use of honey in the frosting.
aww…i eave for five minutes and look what you’ve gone and done with the place–looks great! wow–you are shy? i would have never guessed that!!! thank you for the award honey–i will try to figure out 7 things that won’t drive my audience away 😉
and thanks for your kind comments a few weeks ago–i am trying to be back a little.
There really is something decadent about cinnamon, in any shape or form. Thanks for sharing these!
Cinnamon cupcakes, yum!
these look delicious, not to mention they’re absolutely adorable 🙂 i love cupcakes, i’ll be sure to add this to my recipe collection!
hooray for this blog! it’s so very pretty…and so very yummy!! love it.
My friend and I were recently talking about the prevalence of technology in our day to day lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don’t mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside… I just hope that as memory becomes less expensive, the possibility of uploading our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It’s one of the things I really wish I could encounter in my lifetime.
(Posted on Nintendo DS running R4 Card DS SPPost)
bandxbands: i can assure you that these are state-of-the-art, super-techno cupcakes of the future.
cindy, thank you for the award! So rude that I am only just not getting around to thanking you – I have been so behind on my social networks…
I too am very shy with new people – especially groups. Eek! And I love the Weakerthans.
these look delicious!
I think #6 describes me perfectly too. :/
And…I’m pretty sure my tailbone is broken too. 3 years later and it still hurts! Dammit! 🙁
And I wore a dress when Mike and I went out for dinner for his last birthday. He told me he hadn’t seen me in a dress since our wedding!! Gah!
😛
Aww! I love that you threw his shoe off the porch. He totally deserved it! I love you bunches my friend. And I’d do the same for you but I know that that wierd man you’re marrying will never do that to you! ;o)
this recipe has my name all over it. I love cinnamon anything.