I may have said this in this past but this time I really really mean it. These white chocolate cupcakes baked up beautifully and had an amazing flavour. The pomegranates complemented the sweetness nicely with a slight sour tang. It’s interesting to see how many people have now adapted this combination whereas when I baked this and did a search, I didn’t see any cupcake recipes using white chocolate and pomegranates.
I had this bar of white chocolate I had bought from Tokyo a year back and since I was in India, I could buy a pomegranate and bring it back with me! Things fell in place beautifully and one Saturday evening, these cupcakes were born.
I searched a lot for a good white chocolate cupcake recipe and although there were quite a few that came up, I finally nailed one from Epicurious. Although a lot of the reviews said the cupcake sank in the middle, got ruined, etc, I had a nice feeling about it. I used a lower baking temperature and they came out ridiculously well. The coconut milk in the batter was intriguing too, and its my first time baking cupcakes with coconut milk in the batter!
The pomegranates gave a nice crunch to the texture and added to the appeal of the otherwise dull-looking cupcakes. One word of caution here. I only had brown sugar in hand so my cupcakes are beige in colour. If you use regular white sugar like you are supposed to, the cupcakes will be white and gorgeous like white chocolate cupcakes are supposed to look.
White Chocolate Cupcakes with Pomegranates
Makes 20 cupcakes
Loosely adapted from Epicurious
Ingredients:
8 oz / 240 gm white chocolate
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup regular white sugar
3 egg whites
3/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup canned unsweetened coconut milk
1/4 cup fresh pomegranate seeds
*Optional Mascarpone frosting recipe below.
How to Make White Chocolate Cupcakes:
1. Preheat oven to 320F / 180 C. Line cupcake pans with liners and set aside.
2. Melt white chocolate by placing it in a bowl over another bowl of boiling water and stirring frequently, or in a microwave at low heat until just melted and smooth.
3. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat sugar, butter, and vanilla in large bowl until blended. Add hot white chocolate to sugar mixture; stir to combine. Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with coconut milk in 2 additions, beating batter just to combine between additions.
4. Using clean dry beaters, beat egg whites in a bowl until soft peaks form. Be careful not to overbeat. To check done-ness, I lift the whisk and see if a soft peak forms and gently collapses back into the mixture. Gently fold egg white mixture into batter in 3 additions.
5. Pour batter into the lined cupcake pans until 3/4 filled. Bake in preheated oven for about 25 mins or until the cupcakes don’t stick to a skewer passed through their middle.
6. Cool completely and frost if desired. I thought the cupcakes were a bit too plain so decided to whip up a very simple frosting with some mascarpone cheese I had in hand.
Mascarpone Frosting Recipe
Whisk together 6 tbsp mascarpone cheese, 4 tbsp milk, and 14 tbsp icing sugar. Adjust each of the ingredients until the frosting is of pouring consistency yet not too watery. Pour over completely cooled cupcakes and place some pomegranate seeds over the frosting before serving.
Yummy! So delicious. My mouth is watering for a virtual bite.
Mmmm delicious
This looks like a match made in heaven. And look at all that pome…so photogenic I say. These cupcakes would be perfect for a bridal shower, cos the pink from the pome so spells "feminine" and white chocolate spells "exotic" 🙂
Perfect complement to the Portuguese Egg Custard Tarts recipe which uses 3 egg yolks. These look delicious, can't wait to try!
I love pomegranate but never had it with baked goods….I book marked this to try for another time:) Thank you for sharing!!
These look delish! I'm literally tasting them with my eyes! lol
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I love white chocolate, but ive never tried pomegranete! Should be interesting, they look delicious!
Just how did these last you four days – mine would be over in about 40 mins! ( I would have said 4, but did not want published proof that I can be a glutton!) Love love the pics. Absolutely brilliant looking cupcakes!
Pwetty looking cuppies, calling my name…
Little poms on top, beckoning fame!
Ok sad attempt to poetry. But, you get what I mean 😀
They look amazing.
Gorgeous, delightful cupcakes!!!! Its like being in chocolate heaven 🙂 White chocolates are my fav!!!
Prathima Rao
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Very nice blog with very nice pictures. I like the recipe very much. I'm definitely going to try it. It seems very delicious but when i try it i will also give my comments about the taste of it.
Nags, you said white chocolate cup cake, but the ingredients doesn't have any white chocolate in it. Can you please double or check, let me know if I am missing it somewhere.
So beautiful pictures 🙂
Your really good !
I also love to make cupcakes,
chek my foodblog 🙂
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The pomegranate seeds and coconut milk makes these muffins sounds so exotic. They look so pretty and yummy 🙂
I love cooking cakes 🙂
WOW …
Now I want cupcakes … Hmmm these looks very yammy ….
I love your blog! The pictures look so yummy! I'm going to try those White Chocolate cupcakes! Where do you get your recipes?
Looks feminist to me. Perfect for a ladies party.
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Mmmm… pomegranates and white chocolate could be the new peaches and cream! Jane Gray
Looks so delish …lovely clicks
The cupcakes look amazing. Loved the use of pomegranate. Nice recipe Nags 🙂
Wow!!! Nags never knew that there are pomegranate cakes also. They look awesome, very inviting and perfectly baked. Loved it.
Delicious cake ,well presented and beautifully captured
Incredible combination…and such pretty looking cupcakes…This group sounds awesome…Great job Nags !
Drooooool! How I wish I could make these 😐
I guess I have never come across such a ridiculous pair of ingredients. Pom in cupcakes. very interesting looking by the results.
Texture looks so soft and loved the clicks a lot nags 🙂 The last one is so cute..
What an interesting pair of ingredient. Lataji has really made this FSB edition interesting. Now that I am baking often, I have to make these cupcakes.
I love the idea of pomegranate in a cupcake… not something I would have thought of using till reading this post! And paired with white chocolate sounds scrumptious!
I loved your post about the Free Spirit Bloggers. This sounds like a fun group to be involved with. Pomegranates, white chocolate, and coconut milk sound like a rich, tart cupcake. I think I'll really like this and I'm definitely going to try this recipe.
~Bella~
Pomegranate is so photogeni and the cupcakes look gorgeous…luved the texture of the inside…Interesting recipe and luved the last click very much!