Bourbon Maple Bacon Cupcakes.

Cupcakes.... It's whats for breakfast!... Seriously... These cupcakes are silky-smooth maple goodness topped with a sweet, creamy, booze infused frosting and bacon shaped like a ROSE! (but you can definitely crumble the bacon if you are not feeling crafty).

Bourbon Maple Bacon Cupcakes! 

(Say THAT 10 times fast!)

 

Ingredients:

1/2 cup                             Unsalted butter, room temp
2 cups                               Pure maple syrup, Grade B
3                                       Eggs, room temop
3 cups                              All-purpose flour, sifted
1 tbls.                               Baking powder
1 tsp.                                Sea salt, fine
1 cup                                Milk
1 tsp.                                Pure vanilla extract


Pre-heat oven to 350. Line a standard muffin tin with cupcake liners. In a mixer with fitted paddle, cream butter until smooth. Add maple syrup and mix on medium speed until fully incorporated. Scrape down sides of bowl and add eggs one at a time until fully incorporated. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add flour mixture and milk/vanilla alternately in three batches. Beat until smooth (like caramel). Pour evenly into cupcake liners and bake until done (toothpick comes out clean), about 20 minutes. Let cool completely.

Bourbon Maple Frosting:

1/2 cup                               Unsalted butter, room temp
8oz                                     Cream cheese
4 cups                                Powdered sugar
2 tbls.                                Bourbon, preferably Makers Mark
1/4 cup                              Pure maple syrup, grade B
                                          Bacon, cooked, shaped or crumbled



In mixer with fitted paddle, cream together butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time until fully incorporated. Beat in bourbon and maple syrup until fully incorporated. 

Frost cupcakes and top with bacon.