I love Girl Scout Cookies. I stalk the usual
bank and grocery storefront locations this time of the year, impatiently
awaiting their return. I am a sucker for anything peanut butter chocolate and
would pay substantially more than $4/box for the Peanut Butter Patties. If I
had to make a list of 3 things I wanted if stranded on a desert island, a box
of Peanut Butter Patties would make the list, hands down. We make so many candy
or cookie related cupcakes at the bakery daily that it seemed imperative for us
to create cupcakes using Girl Scout Cookies.
We used Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, and Caramel
Delights today, and used our chocolate cupcake base for all three flavors.
Best Ever Chocolate Cupcake:
1 cup hot
coffee
½ cup semi-sweet
chocolate chips
2 ½ cups flour
2 ½ cups sugar
1 ½ cups
unsweetened cocoa powder
¾ tsp baking
powder
2 tsp baking
soda
1 ½ tsp salt
4 eggs
¾ cups vegetable
oil
1 ½ cups
buttermilk (full fat, shaken)
2 tsp vanilla
These pictures
were taken in the bakery while making a large batch of chocolate batter. Please
note that the proportions you see in the pictures do not match those of the
recipe.
Melt chocolate
chips in hot coffee.
Meanwhile,
whisk flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a
large bowl.
Beat eggs
until slightly thick and lemon colored (about 3 minutes).
Add
coffee/chocolate mix and vanilla to the eggs and beat.
Alternately
add dry ingredients, oil, and buttermilk to the egg mixture and mix until well
combined. The batter should have a medium consistency.
Put Girl Scout
Cookies into a plastic bag and use a rolling pin to create crumbs.
Add enough
melted butter to moisten the cookie crumbs then tamp into cupcake liners.
Scoop batter
into cupcake lines (about ¾ full).
Bake at 300 degrees
until they spring back when touched (about 15 minutes in a convection oven).
Top with
buttercream (see recipe below). Coarsely chop several Girl Scout cookies to
sprinkle on top of the buttercream, then drizzle with chocolate ganache (see
recipe below).
Vanilla
Buttercream
1 pound butter
(room temp)
2 tsp salt
4 tsp lemon
juice
4 tsp vanilla
8-12 cups
powdered sugar
8-12 Tbs heavy
cream
Cream butter
and salt then add lemon juice and vanilla. Alternately add powdered sugar and
heavy cream until desired consistency is reached. The buttercream can be
flavored with caramel, peanut butter, or chocolate ganache after all
ingredients are mixed. For mint buttercream, simmer fresh mint leaves in the
heavy cream. Allow to cool, then add the heavy mint cream according to recipe
directions (omitting vanilla).
Chocolate
Ganache
2 cups of
semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup of heavy
cream
Add all
ingredients to a microwaveable proof dish and heat on high for 30 seconds. Stir
and repeat until smooth (about 2 minutes total).
Life is Good!