Tomato Soup Cupcakes with Mascarpone Frosting

Preparation info
  • Yield:

    24

    Cupcakes
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2010

  • About

The tomato soup cupcake deserves some explanation. Though the unusual main ingredient adds a hint of kitsch to the recipe, it makes for a moist and easy-to-put-together cupcake. Additionally, it brings an interesting flavor to the over-saturated cupcake market (don’t worry—the tomato taste is not prominent). If you’re tired of the same vanilla-frosted chocolate cake, this recipe merits your attention. Tomato soup cake does not dominate a certain region, though it seems to have touched a ner