Its orange season here in south Africa and i found some nice ones. So its orange cupcake time…
Ingredients
Cake:
Cake:
Cake flour – 100gm
Butter – 100gm
Sugar – 80gm
Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
Orange juice – 1-2 tablespoon
Orange zest – 1/8 tsp
Vanilla essence – 1 teaspoon
Orange essence – 1 teaspoon
Butter milk – 60 ml
Eggs – 2 large + 2 whites
Orange Curd:
Orange juice – 1 tablespoon
Sugar – 30gm
Egg yolk – 2
Butter – 30gm
Orange zest – a pinch
Fresh orange buttercream frosting:
Butter – 100gm
Icing sugar – 100-120gm
Vanilla essence – 1 teaspoon
Orange juice – 1 -2 tablespoon
Orange essence – 1 teaspoon
Milk – 1-2 tablespoon
Food colouring
Method
Orange curd:
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Cake:
- Preheat the oven to about 190 degrees celsius.
- Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy using an electric blender.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until fluffy. Add this to the butter- sugar mix.
- Add the baking powder, vanilla essence, orange essence, orange juice, orange zest and beat the mixture.
- Add the yolks and the flour and mix the batter until its all mixed.
- Add the buttermilk and beat using the electric blender.
- Line the cupcake tin with cupcake liners and pour in 3/4th of the cup. Bake for about 20-25 minutes. Check from 15 minutes.
Fresh orange buttercream frosting:
- Beat the butter until creamy and soft, add a batch of icing sugar.
- Add the vanilla and orange essence and another batch of icing sugar and beat it.
- Add the orange juice and another batch of icing sugar.
- Whip till fluffy and creamy.
Once the cupcakes are cooled, score the center of the cupcakes and fill in the orange curd in the center and frost.
Happy baking
xx