Ingredients
(9 large cupcakes)
Cupcakes
- Cake flour – 100gm
- Eggs -2
- Butter – 100gm
- Sugar – 100gm
- Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
- Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon
- Blood orange juice – 4 tablespoons
- Blood orange zest – 1/8 teaspoon
- Butter milk – 120ml
- Food colour – red and yellow (optional)
Blood orange chocolate buttercream frosting
- White chocolate – 100gm
- Butter – 100gm
- Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon
- Blood orange juice – 1 tablespoon
- Blood orange zest – pinch
- Icing sugar – 150-175gm
Candied blood orange slice
- Blood orange – 2-3 slices
- Sugar – 5 tablespoons
- Water – 50-75ml
Candied blood orange
- Cut the blood orange in 2-3 thin circular slices.
- Blanch it in hot boiling water for 2-3 minutes to take the bitterness away.
- Take it out of the water very carefully so as not to rip it apart.
- Melt the sugar in the water on medium high heat, once the sugar is melted add the blood orange slices.
- Let the syrup dinner for about 45 minutes.
- Take the slices out and let it cool on a cooling rack.
Method Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius and line th muffin tin with cupcake liners.
- Cream the butter until nice and fluffy with an electric blender, add the sugar and cream until it resembles wet sand.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until fluffy.
- Add the egg whites to the butter- sugar mix.
- Add the baking powder, vanilla and egg yolk and beat.
- Add in the flour in 2 batches and mix well.
- Add the blood orange juice, zest and the butter milk and beat till everything is mixed well.
- Fill the cupcake liners to 3/4th with the batter and bake for about 20 minutes.
- Check from about 18 minutes to see if it’s baked completely.
- Let them cool on a cooling rack.
Blood orange chocolate buttercream frosting
- Melt the white chocolate on a bowl on a pan with simmering water.
- Cream the butter until light and fluffy.
- Add the melted white chocolate and vanilla.
- Add the Icing sugar in batches.
- Add the blood orange juice and zest.
- Add the rest of the icing sugar.
- Beat until the required consistency.
Once the cupcake are cooled. Frost them with the blood orange chocolate frosting and I garnished it with a slice of the candied orange.
Happy Baking
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