These cupcakes are made with the same batter from our bizcocho dominicano, our beloved Dominican cake recipe. Now you can also serve them in beautiful, easier-to-make cupcakes but with the same delicate flavor and heavenly texture, we all know and love so much.
Why we ❤️ it
How do you like these beautiful Dominican cupcakes? They're made with the same batter as our Dominican cake recipe, with a nice orange flavor, filled with strawberry jam, and covered in suspiro (royal icing).
They're so cute, aren't they? And yes, you can add other types of fillings, and we give you the ideas to modify them to your liking.
Dominican cupcakes
Be forewarned that this is not a traditional dish. I decided to see if Dominican cake could be served as cupcakes. To make the cake batter, filling, and icing, we'll use the recipe for Dominican cake.
You'll need: Dominican cake batter recipe
This post shows some things that I found helpful in adapting the Dominican Cake to a cupcake "format."
Cupcake decoration
The cupcake decoration is reasonably simple - as I'm not an expert. On a base of suspiro (Italian meringue), I put a few pink royal icing flowers with edible silver pearls as the center and some green royal icing leaves.
You'll need: Suspiro recipe (meringue frosting)
If you want to learn how to decorate cupcakes, I recommend finding a book on cake decorating (affiliate link). There are excellent ones for beginners. If you are into baking, I also recommend this decorating kit (affiliate link), which I have. It is full of very useful tools.
Dominican cupcakes.
Fillings
Instead of the traditional pineapple filling, I used strawberry preserve for the cupcakes (I bought the preserve at the supermarket). Just make sure you buy the ones with whole strawberries. I poured a teaspoon of jelly (half a strawberry) into each cup.
As the batter rises in the oven, the preserve sinks, and the whole cupcake is infused with its flavor.
You can use these traditional fillings too:
About this recipe
I made these for a friend on her birthday, so I added a little flag made from scrapbooking paper and a bamboo skewer to write a note to her.
Cupcakes are a great way for beginners to make a Dominican-style cake without much fuss. Buy some beautiful paper wrappers and even ready-made decorations and you will be done in no time.
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Recipe
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Dominican Cupcakes Recipe (Bizcochuelos Dominicanos)
Ingredients
- Batter from Dominican Cake recipe
- 1 cup of strawberry preserve
- Suspiro
Instructions
Fill cupcake tins
Use paper liners to line two 12-cup muffin tins.To fill the paper cups use an ice cream scoop, it makes for cupcakes of homogenous size and makes it easier to pour the batter without making a mess.
Cupcake level
These are some of the paper cups already filled. With the amounts in the recipe for Dominican cake you should obtain about 3 dozen cupcakes.
Adding filling
- Pour 1 tablespoon of preserve on the middle of each cupcake.
Baking
- Heat oven to 300 ºF. Bake the cupcakes until they turn golden brown (about 20 mins). Here are the cupcakes at room temperature and ready to be decorated. As you can see, they do not rise above the paper cup border, this was done on purpose, as I wanted a flat surface to decorate.
Decorating
I covered the cupcakes with a flat layer of meringue. To smooth out the surface, I used a mini offset spatula.Then I decorated with flowers colored with the coloring that comes with the set and decorating tips and bags from the same.
Tips and Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is calculated automatically based on ingredients listed. Please consult your doctor if you need precise nutrition information.
