Arnold Palmer Cupcakes

Paula’s Dishes

I’m going to kick everything off the day by making an Arnold Palmer cupcake now if
you came into our restaurant and said I would want an Arnold Palmer please our waitress
would bring you a half a glass of lemonade and a half of a glass of sweet teeth apparently
that’s his favorite drink and this recipe is an Arnold Palmer cupcake so I’ve got 2 sticks
of unsalted butter that I’m going to start with and I’m going to add 2 cups of sugar.

Now I’m just going to cream this together and then I have 4 eggs up here on the counter
that I’m going to add after I cream our butter and our sugar and I’m going to add it one at
a time giving it a chance to incorporate into our buttering sugar mixture. Look at that
beautiful color. Alright now our liquid is going to be our tea now I have taken 5 regular
size tea bags and I have steeped it with a couple of milk. You just heat up your milk
dropping your tea bags and let it steep for about 15 or 20 minutes so here’s the tea part to
our Arnold Palmer Cupcakes.

In that goes, alright now we’ve got to come in there with the lemon. Now I’m just going
to grate probably about a half a teaspoon of lemon zest and that looks about right and
now I’m going to add one teaspoon of lemon juice and I’m just going to eyeball that then
about a teaspoon, alright now we’re just going to come back in her and mix all those
ingredients in there we go. I just adore cupcakes my mother used to make them when I
was a little girl to me you just can’t beat a cupcake.

Alright now we’ve got to get together our dry ingredients that we need to add to our wet
ingredients and I’m going to need 2-1/2 cups of all purpose flour. You have to be precise
because baking is a formula ¾ of a tablespoon of baking powder then that’s going to
make our cupcakes get fat and pretty and now ¾ of a teaspoon of salt and then we’re just
going to add them to our wet ingredients and the bowl back goes and then I’m going to
take our mixer in and mix up those dry ingredients into our wet ingredients.

Alright now I’m going to turn that up and just whip that own out. Alright there we go that
was simple enough. Alright I want to load up our muffin tin. I’m lining my paper because
it works out better for a cupcake and I’m just going to put 1 scoop into the muffin tin and
I’m using a medium sized scooper. My oven has been preheated to 350 degrees and we’re
going to bake this for about 20 to 22 minutes so in they go. Let’s make our frosting that’s
going to go in our Arnold Palmer cupcakes.

Now I’ve got 2 sticks of butter that’s at room temperature. I’ve got a half a cup of our
milk and tea mixture that I made earlier. I ‘m going to cream my butter soften it up and
then I’m going to add 2 cups of confectioner’s sugar. There we go. This is going to be a
real bridge buttery frosting. Now I’m going to start adding our liquid but that looks like
hot chocolate getting to our chocolate meal. Boy you would the kids be surprised to say
pick that up and started to goes when thinking it was chocolate but it would be a real
surprise.

Alright so I think that’s about right, alright we’ve got our tea milk, milk tea in there and
now I’m going to add about a teaspoon of lemon juice there we go. Now I’m just going to
put a little thin layer and then I’m going to fill our pastry bag with our icing and just
cover our Arnold Palmers with a little stars. Aren’t those pretty? And we can stick a
straw in it because an Arnold Palmer you would actually have a straw because you’re
drinking it. Isn’t that cute?