Bacon Maple Cupcakes

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These Bacon Maple Cupcakes  are a hit around my house and now they can be at yours to. Ive already got Birthday orders in for this cupcake and there Birthday isn't til October. There are three parts to this cupcake frosting, filling,and the cake itself.

This is what you need.

Cupcake.

6 strips of bacon
4 1/2 tablespoons butter
1/2 tablespoon bacon grease- solidified
1 egg
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup maple syrup
1 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1/4 cup milk


Cook bacon, preheat oven to 350. ( try to keep bacon flat  and save for garnish)

Pour grease into container and refrigerate until some what solid.

Combine butter grease until creamy.

Beat in brown sugar, maple syrup, and egg until well combined.

Slowly add in flour, baking soda, baking powder,and salt.

Fold in milk until creamy.

Place in lined muffin tin 2/3 the way full and bake at 350 for 20 minutes

Filling

1/4 cup sugar.
3 tablespoons cornstarch.
2 cups milk.
3 egg yolks slightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla

in a 1 qt. saucepan mix sugar and cornstarch.

Gradually stir in milk until smooth.

slowly add in egg yolks, stirring constantly.

Bring to a boil over  med -low heat.

Boil for 1 min and remove from heat.

stir in vanilla

Cover custard surface with saran wrap an chill until cold.

Frosting

4 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 cup confectioners powdered sugar

Beat together butter and syrup.
slowly add in sugar- adding more if necessary.



So now you got all your stuff made and your cupcakes are cooled . its time to put everything together its a pretty easy to do. i just wanted to share with you the tips I use to fill the cupcakes .To core the cupcakes. you can use a little pairing knife or what i like to use to get the same size and depth is a cup cake corer  I found this one on amazon for a pretty cheep pricehttp://www.amazon.com/Cuisipro-747166-Cupcake-Corer/dp/B004OFGWBI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331847799&sr=8-1

Fill a pastry bag with the custard and fill each up cupcake. Using another pastry bag fill with frosting and top.
As for the Bacon cut each piece in half  toss in sugar and top the cupcake.