Miniature amaretto cakes
Miniature amaretto cakes recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 cup butter
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, divided
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 cup Amaretto, divided
- 1 1/2 teaspoons finely shredded lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons light corn syrup
Recipe method:
- Generously grease and flour eight 4 inch fluted tube pans or twenty 2 1/2 inch muffin pans.
- Let butter and eggs stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Stir together flour, baking powder and nutmeg.
- In a large mixing bowl beat butter with electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds.
- Add 1 cup of the sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating on medium-high speed about 6 minutes or until mixture is very light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating 1 minute after each addition, scraping bowl often.
- Stir in 1/3 cup of the Amaretto, the lemon peel and vanilla.
- Gradually add flour mixture, beating on medium-low speed just till combined.
- Pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake at 325 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes for 4 inch pans, 25 minutes for muffin pans, or until a wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean.
- Cool on rack 10 minutes. Remove cakes from pans. Cool thoroughly.
- Prick fluted top and sides of each cake or top and sides of each cupcake generously with tines of a fork.
- For syrup, in saucepan combine remaining sugar, brown sugar, corn syrup and 1/2 cup water.
- Cook and stir over medium heat until bubbly and sugar is dissolved.
- Remove from heat. Stir in remaining Amaretto. Cool 5 minutes.
- Dip top and sides of each cake or top and sides of each cupcake into syrup.
- Place on wire rack above a baking sheet.
- Spoon or brush remaining syrup over tops of cakes. Cool.
- Wrap cakes individually in plastic wrap or transfer to a tightly covered container. Chill up to 3 weeks.
- For giving, place the individually wrapped cakes in a tissue paper lined box or on foil covered cardboard and over wrap with cellophane.
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