Description
Delightful honey peach cream cheese cupcakes blend sweet summer flavors with creamy textures. Bakers can savor this indulgent dessert that combines fresh peaches and smooth cream cheese in a perfectly balanced treat.
Ingredients
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Main Ingredients:
- 1 cup fresh peaches, diced
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
Dry Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Flavor Enhancers:
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Warm the oven to 350F (175C) and prepare a muffin tin with protective paper liners.
- Combine dry ingredients in a mixing vessel: flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Reserve to the side.
- Cream butter and sugar until voluminous and airy. Incorporate eggs individually, then blend in vanilla extract and golden honey.
- Gently integrate dry mixture and buttermilk in alternating patterns, initiating and concluding with dry components. Carefully fold fresh peach fragments throughout the batter.
- Distribute the mixture evenly across cupcake liners, ensuring consistent volume.
- Bake for 18-22 minutes, monitoring until a testing probe emerges cleanly when inserted into the center of a cupcake.
- Allow cupcakes to cool completely at room temperature, ensuring no residual warmth remains.
- Prepare frosting by whipping cream cheese and butter until silky and uniform in texture.
- Introduce powdered sugar, vanilla essence, and additional honey to the cream cheese mixture. Blend until achieving a light, fluffy consistency.
- Generously coat each cooled cupcake with the honey-infused cream cheese frosting, creating elegant peaks and swirls.
Notes
- Choose ripe, fragrant peaches for the most intense flavor and natural sweetness in your cupcakes.
- Use room temperature ingredients to ensure smooth, even mixing and a tender crumb texture.
- Gently fold peaches into the batter to prevent breaking them and maintain their delicate shape.
- For a gluten-free version, swap regular flour with a 1:1 gluten-free baking blend to accommodate dietary needs.
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 230 kcal
- Sugar: 18 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 30 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Cholesterol: 40 mg