These cupcakes from Amish Friendship Bread are bursting with cherry flavor! If you add a few white chocolate chips to the icing, you’ll have the ideal Valentine’s treat for a party in the classroom.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen cupcakes |
Ingredients
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter (see footnote for recipe link)
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup milk
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 (3 ounce) package cherry Jell-O®
- ½ cup vegetable shortening
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ½ cup white chocolate chips, or as needed (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners.
- In a mixing bowl, stir together the Amish friendship bread starter, eggs, vegetable oil, 1/2 cup milk, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until thoroughly combined. Mix in the flour and cherry gelatin powder. Spoon the batter into the prepared cupcake cups.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool.
- In a large bowl, beat the vegetable shortening with butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy, and add the vanilla extract. Beat in confectioners’ sugar, 1 cup at a time, stopping often to scrape down the sides of the bowl; mix in the milk, and beat until the frosting is light and fluffy. Spread on cooled cupcakes. Sprinkle each cupcake with a few white chocolate chips, if desired.
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Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 366 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 46 g |
| Cholesterol | 35 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 166 mg |
| Sugars | 35 g |
| Fat | 20 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I didn’t care for it, but then I’m not a big fan of cherry flavored food. Will not repeat.
I only made the frosting part of this recipe because i already had a cake i was making but had no frosting and i found this and this frosting is so delicious and creamy smooth, we really like this frosting, Also I used butter flavor crisco, has a nice buttery taste to it Thank you.
Yum!!