Pineapple Cream & Rum Cupcakes
 
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These yummy cupcakes were inspired by my grandmother's "Plain Cake" and my mom's Pineapple Cream Pie! This will also make a single layer cake.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 8-16
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup butter, room temperature (Grandmother substituted vegetable shortening when she was out of butter)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ cup dark rum
  • ½ tsp. salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Spray cupcakes pans with cooking spray or line them with cupcake liners.
  3. Beat the sugar and butter together until creamy, about 3-5 minutes.
  4. Add the eggs and beat until combined.
  5. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
  6. Add half the flour to the sugar and egg mixture. Beat to combine.
  7. Add the milk. Beat to combine.
  8. Add the remaining flour. Beat to combine.
  9. Fill each cupcake holder until it is about ⅔ full.
  10. To test for doneness, insert a toothpick in the middle of a cupcake and pull it out. If it comes out clean, they are done.
  11. For jumbo cupcakes, it will take about 18 minutes for them to cook. For regular-sized cupcakes, it will take about 10-12 minutes. However, test the cupcakes a couple of minutes earlier because every oven is different!
  12. After the cupcakes cool, use a ½ inch to ¾ inch round cutter to cut the center out of each cupcake. If you don't have a round cutter this size, you can use a paring knife or small spoon. Be careful not to cut all the way through the bottom of the cupcakes. You want to leave the bottom intact so that the filling will not come out.
  13. Use a pastry brush to brush rum on the inside of each of the "holes" you created in the center of the cupcakes.
  14. Place the cream filling (see separate recipe) in a pastry bag or zip top bag and cut off the corner.
  15. Pipe filling into the hole you made in the center of each cupcake.
  16. Top each cupcake with whipping cream (see separate recipe).
  17. Garnish with a small piece of fresh pineapple.
Recipe by Pinot & Pie at https://pinotandpie.com/pineapple-cream-rum-cupcakes/