Cupcakes....

My Valentine's Day post suggested making cupcakes for the sweet significant other in your life.  I thought long and hard about what kind of cupcakes i'd make.  While skipping joyfully through the aisles of the local Filipino food mart in Riverside, CA....and naturally, plucking from the shelves all the ube (purple yam) infused foods I could find, it hit me.  Ube cupcakes.  Duh. They're sweet and they're purple. Can't go wrong for Valentine's <3

I found this recipe online @ kirbiecravings.com:

Ingredients

1 cup grated ube yam (can be found frozen in Asian markets)
2/3
cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
12 Tablespoons butter (1.5
sticks), softened
2 1/4 cups sugar
4 large eggs
4 Tablespoons
vegetable oil
3 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2
teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Thaw and drain ube yam. Place ube on a small sheet of foil, place
foil in steamer basket and steam for 15-20 minutes until ube is soft.
Remove ube from heat, place in small bowl, and mash ube with a spoon.
Allow ube to come to room temperature, then add milk and vanilla to ube
and mix well. Set aside.

3. Using the paddle attachment of a stand mixer, cream the butter and
sugar together on medium speed until well combined. Add eggs, one at a
time, until blended after each addition. Add oil and mix to combine.

4. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda,
and salt.

5. Add a portion of the flour mixture to the egg mixture and mix on low
speed until just combined. Then add a portion of the ube mixture to the
egg mixture, continuing to alternate between the flour and ube until
everything is just combined.

6. Place paper baking cups into muffin pans and spoon batter into cups
until 2/3 full. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 25-30 minutes until
a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Remove cupcakes
from pan and let cool on a wire rack.

I'll probably cheat and toy with box mix, lol

Cheers!