Sugar, granulated
|
6 tablespoons +
2/3 cup |
Sugar, dark brown
|
¼ cup
|
Cinnamon
|
1 teaspoon
|
Flour, cake
|
1 2/3 cups
|
Baking soda
|
¼ teaspoon
|
Baking powder
|
1 teaspoon
|
Salt, fine sea
|
½ teaspoon
|
Butter, unsalted, softened
|
8 tablespoons +
10 tablespoons |
Eggs
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2 large
|
Vanilla extract
|
1 teaspoon +
½ teaspoon |
Sour cream, room temperature
|
¾ cup
|
Blueberries
|
6 ounces
|
Cream cheese, room temperature
|
8 ounces
|
Sugar, confectioners’, sifted
|
2 2/3 cups
|
Blueberry jam, strained
|
¼ cup
|
- Preheat to 375°F; set a rack in the upper third of the oven.
- Line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with baking cups.
- In a small bowl, combine the 6 tablespoons granulated and dark brown sugars with the cinnamon; set aside.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Cream the 8 tablespoons butter and 2/3 cup sugar together with a mixer on medium-high speed, until pale and fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and then add the vanilla, scraping down the sides of the bowl.
- Reduce to low speed, and beat in a third of the flour mixture, half the sour cream, another third of flour, remaining sour cream, and then the remaining flour.
- Fold the blueberries in by hand.
- Divide the batter among the baking cups.
- Add the topping, pressing gently to ensure it sticks to the batter.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or until golden and a toothpick comes out with moist crumbs.
- Remove the cupcakes from the tin, and let cool on a wire rack.
- Cream the 10 tablespoons butter and cream cheese together in a mixer on medium-high, until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
- Reduce to low, add the vanilla, and gradually add the confectioners’ sugar.
- Increase speed to medium-high, and beat 1 minute.
- Spoon the jam on top of the icing, and without stirring, spoon the icing into a pastry bag.
- Pipe swirled mounds of icing on top of each cupcake.
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