Brown Butter Cupcakes

Blog-checking lines: The August 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Elissa of 17 and Baking. For the first time, The Daring Bakers partnered with Sugar High Fridays for a co-event and Elissa was the gracious hostess of both. Using the theme of beurre noisette, or browned butter, Elissa chose to challenge Daring Bakers to make a pound cake to be used in either a Baked Alaska or in Ice Cream Petit Fours. The sources for Elissa’s challenge were Gourmet magazine and David Lebovitz’s “The Perfect Scoop”.

Everything has been so hectic for me this month. I am in the midst of moving house and the majority of my cooking equipment is packed up in storage. Despite this, I still really wanted to try the brown butter pound cake component of the Daring Bakers' Challenge. However, I had to take the liberty of not actually making a baked alaska or petit fours. Instead I made brown butter cupcakes, this was easy to do and my am I glad I tried that recipe! It was heavenly! I admit it was a lot more butter than I would usually use in a cake but as a special treat it was delicious! Thanks so much for the challenge. Hopefully I'll soon have a wonderful new kitchen and all my equipment to use!