Orange Cupcakes/ How To Make Easy Orange Cupcakes
Orange cupcake is an easy recipe to make with a handful of ingredients. It is super fluffy and delicious to indulge. In addition to this super soft cake, simple vanilla whipped cream frosting adds a mild sweetness to the bursting orange flavour cupcakes.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 115 gm all-purpose flour
- 2 egg
- 115 gm caster sugar
- 100 gm butter ( unsalted butter )
- 2 tablespoon orange juice ( freshly squeezed orange )
- 1½ teaspoon orange zest
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
For Frosting
- 1 cup whipping cream ( non-dairy )
- 1 drop vanilla extract
- orange slice ( for garnish )
- mint leaves ( for garnish )
Instructions
- In a wide dry bowl add sugar and room temperature unsalted butter and beat until the mixture turns creamy and smooth.
- In a separate bowl beat egg until frothy. Add the beaten egg to the butter sugar mixture.
- Beat the mixture for two to three minutes until smooth creamy consistency as shown in the picture. This step is important to achieve soft fluffy cupcakes.
- Now sieve all-purpose flour, baking powder and salt together into the butte cream mixture. Then gently fold in flour mixture with spatula using cut and fold method.
- Now add in freshly squeezed orange juice, orange zest and vanilla extract. Gently mix until it is well combined. Make sure not to overmix.
- Scoop in the cake batter in the cup liners and gently tap the baking tray onto the kitchen counter. It helps to release the air pockets that may cause a holey uneven texture in your baked cakes.
- Preheat oven to 180 C . Bake it for 15 to 17 minutes or until inserted tooth pick comes out clean. I baked in microwave convection oven and it took exactly 17 minutes to bake. Remove from cake tin and let it cool completely before frosting. Every oven is different, so have an eye after 15 minutes.
- Whip non-dairy whipping cream with a drop of vanilla extract until it forms stiff peaks. I used a star nozzle to make a simple flower. Finally, garnish it with a slice of fresh orange and mint leaves.
Notes
Butter should be at room temperature. You can use salted butter. Then skip adding salt to the flour mixture.
Beat sugar and butter until you get creamy smooth fluffy consistency.
Beat egg in a separate bowl until frothy.
You can use store bought orange juice. It is a must to add orange zest to get the bursting citrus flavour.
Nutrition
Serving: 1pieceCalories: 351.5kcalCarbohydrates: 16.8gProtein: 4.8gFat: 29.8gSaturated Fat: 18.2gTrans Fat: 0.6gCholesterol: 144.7mgSodium: 232.5mgPotassium: 87.5mgFiber: 0.6gSugar: 0.7gVitamin A: 1092.2IUVitamin C: 3.8mgCalcium: 81.5mgIron: 1.3mg
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