The Butch Bakery Cookbook

by David Arrick, Janice Kollar

Overview

This is not your mother's cupcake cookbook

The Butch Bakery does cupcakes like nobody else. You can forget the pretty sparkles and the flowers on top, forget the pastel cupcakes for Easter or Halloween. These aren't cupcakes for little kids, but grown-up cupcakes full of contemporary, inventive flavors—like bacon, whiskey, coffee, and cayenne pepper.

The Butch Bakery Cookbook offers cupcakes for the twenty-first century—like a cupcake imbued with two different liqueurs or a devil's food cake made truly diabolical with a dose of chili powder. These are serious sweets. They're delightfully different and dangerously delicious.

• Author David Arrick has received tremendous media coverage since opening Butch Bakery
• Perfect for dessert or cupcake lovers who are tired of the same old vanilla or chocolate cake with icing on top

For anyone who wants a dessert that breaks the mold and challenges the taste buds with modern flavors and inspired ingredients, The Butch Bakery Cookbook delivers the goods—seriously.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544188396
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Sold by:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

DAVID ARRICK is a former actor, personal trainer, and lawyer. He left Wall Street to found Butch Bakery in 2009. The company's website is ButchBakery.com.
JANICE KOLLAR was the owner of Kollar Cookies in New York for more than twelve years. The Food Network recently named her Classic Four Layer Chocolate Cake the best cake in the country.

Table of Contents

11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

13 INTRODUCTION: DESSERT FOR DUDES

Butch Meets Buttercream

Butch's Cupcake Boot Camp

Butch's Toolbox

Butch's Supply Cabinet

Butch's Big Baker's Dozen

Butch's Chocolate Discs

41 CHAPTER 1: WORKING

Wake-Up Call!

Driller

Jack Hammer

Coffee Break

Rush Hour

B-52

69 CHAPTER 2: PLAY BALL!

Home Run

Really Hot Dog

Beer Run

Triple Play

No-Hitter

93 CHAPTER 3: TOUCHDOWN

Tailgate

Kick-Off

4&10

Defense Defense

Hoo Rah Hoo Rah!

117 CHAPTER 4: BARBECUE SEASON

Mojito

Rum & Coke

Big Papi

Root Beer Float

Camp Out

141 CHAPTER 5: COUPLES' NIGHT OUT

Date Night

Sweet Mama

Old-Fashioned

Side Car

Coco Loco

165 CHAPTER 6: BUTCH'S ON-THE-GO: Using Pre-made Cake Mixes

Rum Runner

Ice Cream Cake

Jack Daniel's Rush

New Yawk Cream Pie

Peppermint Patty

188 INDEX

Recipe

BEER RUN
A Chocolate Stout Cupcake with Vanilla Stout Buttercream

There's nothing like an ice-cold beer on a hot summer day, or while you're watching your favorite ball game. So we thought, why not make a cupcake with beer? We started with chocolate cake and then added our favorite stout into the mix. Next, we frosted them with our pumped-up creamy vanilla frosting, again with lots of stout, and then topped them with crushed chocolate-covered pretzels. And on that day, a winning combination was born!

Makes 12 cupcakes

Ingredient Roster

For the Chocolate Stout Cupcakes:
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup cocoa powder
3/4 cup dark stout, such as Guinness, poured and settled before you measure
2 large eggs, broken into a small bowl
1/2 cup full-fat sour cream
1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
For the Vanilla Stout Buttercream:
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted through a strainer
3 tablespoons dark stout, such as Guinness, poured and settled before you measure
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Pinch salt

Topping:
3/4 cup crushed chocolate-covered Pretzels

PLAN OF ATTACK:

Make the Cupcakes: Place a baking rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two 6-cup jumbo-size muffin pans with liners and set aside. In a small saucepan over low heat, melt the butter. Remove from the heat, add the cocoa powder, and stir until smooth. Then stir in the stout. You'll think that you have some stout left to drink, but hold your horses! You're going need some for the frosting, too. Set aside to cool, about 10 minutes.

In a medium-size mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs and the sour cream. Add the cooled chocolate mixture, incorporating well. Add the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt, and whisk until smooth, scraping down the bowl as needed.

Fill each prepared muffin cup with 1/3 cup batter, about 2/3 full. Bake, rotating the pans halfway through, until the tops are just firm to the touch and a tester inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 23 minutes. Leave the cupcakes in the pan on a rack to cool for 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer the cupcakes to the wire rack to cool completely before frosting, about 1 hour.

Make the Buttercream: In a medium-size mixing bowl, with an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat the butter until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. Add the confectioners' sugar, stout, vanilla, and salt into the bowl, and continue to beat until very smooth and creamy, 2 to 3 minutes, scraping down the bowl as needed.

Cupcake Construction: Get out that ice cream scoop (2 to 2 1/4 inches in diameter) and top each cupcake with a scoop of frosting. Sprinkle each cupcake with a tablespoon of the crushed pretzels. Cupcakes can be refrigerated for up to 3 days in an airtight container, or frozen for 1 month.

If You Like: Before you sprinkle on the pretzels, you can shine the cupcakes up a bit by taking a butter knife (no serrated edges, please) and pushing the frosting down to about an inch high, flattening the top, and then taking the knife and making a flat 45-degree angled edge all the way around the side of the scoop of frosting.

Virgin Beer Run: Substitute your favorite soda for the beer. We like a cola or root beer the best.