Green Monster Pistachio Cupcakes
Ingredients
- Ingredients For Cake:
- 1 Cup white sugar
- ½ Cup butter
- 4 Egg whites
- 2 Teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ Cups all-purpose flour
- 2 Teaspoons baking powder
- ½ Cup milk
- 1 Package pistachio pudding mix
- 12 teaspoons cherry preserves optional
- Ingredients For Frosting:
- ½ Cup butter
- ½ Cup milk
- 1 Package pistachio pudding mix
- 2 to 2 ½ Cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease or line a 12 hole cupcake tin with liners
- Combine flour, pudding mix and baking powder and set aside. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter until fluffy. Beat in the egg whites, one at a time and then stir in the vanilla
- Add the flour mixture to the creamed butter and sugar mixture in batches until well combined. Finally stir in the milk until the batter is smooth
- Pour or spoon the batter into the prepared cupcake tin
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven until just barely golden brown
- The cupcakes should be done when they spring back to the touch
- While the cupcakes cool, prepare the frosting
- Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, cream the butter until light and fluffy
- In a separate bowl, combine the milk and the pudding mix until it's completely dissolved. If it's not completely dissolved you’ll have gritty icing!
- Beat the pudding mixture into the butter completely
- Add in the powdered sugar in batches, beating to combine
- Allow the icing to chill for approximately 20 minutes to allow the jello and butter to set
- Prepare cupcakes to be filled
- Cut and scoop out a small hole in each of the cupcakes and save the scooped out portion
- Fill each cupcake with roughly 1 teaspoon of cherry preserves and re-top with the bit of scooped out cake
- Ice each of the cupcakes using a pastry bag or plastic bag with the corner cut off
- Decorate with sliced almonds and chocolate chips or as desired to look like monsters!
