Pink Grapefruit Cupcakes
- Cupcakes
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup 2% reduced-fat Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons pink grapefruit zest
- Frosting
- 1 (8-ounce) block 1/3-less-fat cream cheese, chilled
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon pink grapefruit zest and 2 teaspoons pink grapefruit juice
- 2 drops red food coloring
- Preheat oven to 350u0b0.
- To make cupcakes, combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs; mix until smooth. Add half of flour mixture, and combine; repeat with remaining flour mixture. Add yogurt and vanilla; blend at low speed. Blend in zest. Scoop dough into 48 mini baking cups (about 2/ 3 full); bake until tops spring back when touched lightly in center (about 10 minutes). Remove from oven; cool completely.
- To make frosting, place cream cheese in a medium bowl; beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, grapefruit zest, and grapefruit juice; beat until smooth.
- Divide the frosting into 2 bowls. Add food coloring to 1 bowl; mix with a spatula until frosting is light pink. Frost cupcakes according to directions in "Ooh! Easy Frosting Trick" (below).
- Ooh! Easy Frosting Trick
- To frost minis, place a dollop of frosting on top, and swirl with a spatula like a Mini Offset Stainless-Steel Spatula ($16; williams-sonoma.com). Put frosting in a piping bag with a large round tip (or use a zip-top plastic bag with a corner cut off), and pipe a large dollop on top of each cupcake. Then use another bag with a smaller tip and a different color frosting to make a "bull's-eye" on top of each dollop.
flour, baking powder, salt, unsalted butter, sugar, eggs, yogurt, vanilla, pink grapefruit zest, frosting, cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla, pink grapefruit zest, drops red food coloring
Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/pink-grapefruit-cupcakes (may not work)