Saffron Cupcakes - Feast Your Eyes

by Nanette Maxim, Posted Jul 15th 2010 @ 10:00AM

saffron cupcake Photo: norwichnuts, Flickr

With a warm, exotic note of saffron, filled with a blend of fruit and topped with buttercream icing, golden raspberries and pistachio nuts, this cupcake is as fresh and golden as morning light. Oh, and it's vegan, so blogger norwichnuts created this cupcake recipe with margarine instead of butter.

Saffron is not a spice to go crazy with; just a teaspoon of the threads is more than enough to give the cupcakes an earthy undertone. Too much and they'll be bitter. Fun fact: The stamens from about 150 flowers (the Crocus sativus) are hand-harvested to produce just .035 ounces of saffron. So do it proud.

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Tags: cupcakes, fruit desserts, saffron

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7-17-2010 @2:34PM lee said... typical granola eater cake... gross
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7-17-2010 @4:04PM J Lea said... Please don't put saffron in anything and call it a cupcake. Reminds me of my sister-in-law's apple crisp. Didn't peel the apples or add sugar just a teaspoon of cinnamon, I gagged on it because she also left most of the endocarp (the hard layer that surrounds the apple seeds) in there too. It was the most godawful stuff I ever put in my mouth. Her family ate it like it was the nectar of the gods though. I figure they'll love saffron cupcakes too.
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7-18-2010 @11:48AM Gregory Schwartz said... I'm just wild about Saffron
Saffron's wild about me
I'm just wild about Saffron
She's just wild about me
They call me Mellow Yellow.........
(Donovan)
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