Shamrock Shake Cupcakes

Making the Cupcake:

Ingredients:

• 4 egg whites
• 2 cps. flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 cp. buttermilk
• 1/4 cp. green creme de menthe
• 1/2 cp. butter, softened
• 1 3/4 sp. sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350. In a mixing bowl, combine baking powder, salt, baking soda, and flour; set aside. In a measuring cup, combine buttermilk and creme de menthe. Also, set this aside. 
2. In a large bowl, beat butter. Add sugar, a little at a time, until fluffy and light. Next, beat in vanilla. Then, add egg whites, one at a time. 
3. Alternately, add buttermilk mixture and dry ingredients mixture. Beat until mixture is combined. 
4. Spoon the batter into muffin cups, about 2/3 full. 
5. Bake about 16 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. 

Making the Frosting:

Ingredients:

• 1 cp. butter, softened
• 6 oz. white baking chocolate, chopped into chunks
• 1/3 cp. whipping cream
• 1 1/2-2 cps. powdered sugar
• green food coloring

Instructions:

1. In a saucepan, heat whipping cream until it starts to simmer. 
2. Put white chocolate chunks into a bowl. Pour hot whipping cream into bowl. Let the chocolate melt in it for 5 minutes. Do not touch it during this time. 
3. Stir until smooth. Then, let it stand for 15 minutes. 
4. Beat butter into melted choc. mixture. 
5. Add powdered sugar until it reaches piping consistency.
6. Divide frosting into two bowls, tint one of the frostings green, using food coloring. Use a star tip and frost each cupcake to look like the picture shown. 

Tips from Hayley and Kate!

• These cupcakes weren't necessarily our favorites! Next time, we would try to add some mint extract to create a stronger flavor in the cupcake itself.
• These would be so cute so a St. Patrick's Day Party! 
• This frosting is delish! It definitely makes the cupcake! Enjoy it:)