To be honest, I haven’t really been craving sweet stuff lately. This is another reason that posting here has been slow over the past month. I found out on Christmas morning that I’m pregnant with our third child; I had the first ultrasound this past Thursday and I am currently 9 weeks along. The due date is August 23, and I think baby #3 will be a girl!
Anyway, I have been craving savory stuff, rather than sweets. When it comes to cupcakes at the moment, frosting makes me feel queasy. Remembering a few recipes in the book Cupcakes! that do not use frosting, I decided to try one out today and they really hit the spot.
Crumb cupcakes! They remind me of those Hostess crumb cakes, although this particular cupcake has a much crunchier top. While I used the recipe for the crumbs, I could not use the recipe for the yellow cake because I did not have all the listed ingredients. To substitute, I chose Bakerella’s moist yellow cake recipe, and it did live up to its name! It’s a great yellow cake, one that I will now use time and time again when I need a yellow cake. Very soft, very moist.
I don’t have two cupcake pans, so I used leftover cake batter and crumbs in a loaf pan to bake at the same time as the cupcakes, so I ended up with a little crumb loaf.
I sliced an end off and stuck it on top so you could see how beautiful that yellow cake is.
I don’t feel comfortable posting the recipe for these cupcakes (except of course for linking to Bakerella’s yellow cake recipe) because it came from a cookbook, and while apparently it is not illegal to post the actual recipe, I would just rather not. Go grab the book if you’re interested, or I’m sure you can find another similiar crumb cupcake recipe by searching online.
Update next day: These crumb cupcakes are fantastic reheated in the microwave for breakfast! I would definitely make these again, but next time I will not put crumbs on the bottom of the cupcakes; the crumbs are crunchier on the bottom than on the top, and I personally don’t like that crunch. I’ll just put extra crumbs on top!
I’m not sure how things are going to be, cupcake-wise, for a while, since I’d much rather eat an entire bag of something like sour cream & onion potato chips, but I’ll try to update with cupcakes a bit more than what I have, even if I have to pawn them off to neighbors!
For anyone wondering about my Iron Cupcake: Earth prizes, I haven’t yet received them all. Once I receive everything I’ll post pictures of them in one big post.
Congratulations on your pregnancy! I bet that was a nice Christmas present! These cupcakes look good, it is nice to have a change from frosting on top of cupcakes sometimes.
Thank you, apparentlyjessy, it was definitely a nice Christmas present!
Those look fantastic! I love crumb cake!
Try looking up crumb on the internet… they have big customer service issues, and an attitude to rival even GASP clothing.