Hi guys! This is Amanda from Kevin & Amanda and I’m so thrilled to share this fun recipe with you on my dear friends Maria and Josh’s blog today. Just a few weeks after this precious couple found out they were expecting a new baby pea, Maria and I met up in a very snowy NYC for an entire day of sweet shopping. There were cookies, cupcakes and chocolate galore! We shopped that city out. One of our most memorable stops was Baked by Melissa, a super adorable cupcake shop with teeny tiny cupcakes in tons of fun flavors. My favorite was the Chocolate Chip Maple Pancake Cupcake, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
It’s a soft, sweet maple vanilla cupcake with a fluffy maple buttercream frosting. Plus some chocolate. Everything you want in a pancake! And a cupcake, for that matter. In honor of Maria and our delicious day in NYC, I’ve recreated this mini maple masterpiece, and I’m so excited to share it with you guys, her sweet friends and loyal readers.
I’ve recently become obsessed with cake flour, and I used it for these cupcakes. Just open a box of cake flour and you’ll see what I mean! It’s that intoxicating smell of a cupcake bakery wrapped up in a delicious little box. It totally knocks you in the face when you open it. Powerful stuff. By the way, in my grocery store the cake flour is with the cake mixes and not with the flour. Took me awhile to figure that one out. Is it like that in your grocery store? I also highly recommend Tahitian vanilla extract for the buttercream frosting if you can find it. I love using Tahitian vanilla for recipes that won’t be cooked. It just gives them that simple, pure vanilla flavor. If you’re into that sort of thing. Hope you enjoy these mini cupcakes!
Thanks Amanda for guest posting! I can’t wait to try these mini cupcakes. They look just like the cupcakes we had in NYC-maybe even better:) Make sure you all visit Amanda’s fabulous blog-Kevin & Amanda. She is amazing and always shares tasty recipes, photography tips, fun travel adventures, free fonts, and more! Have a great weekend!