Ingredients
Cake
(9 large cupcakes)
Cake
(9 large cupcakes)
- Cake flour – 100gm
- Sugar – 100gm
- Butter – 100gm
- Eggs – 2 large
- Baking powder – 1 tablespoon
- Vanilla essence – 1/2 teaspoon
- Almond essence – 1/2 teaspoon
- Vanilla pod – 1/2 bean
- Maraschino cherry syrup – 30ml
- Buttermilk – 120ml
Cherry compote
- Maraschino cherry – 200gm
- Maraschino cherry syrup (from the can/tin) – 2 tablespoon
- Sugar – 3 tablespoon
Maraschino cherry buttercream frosting
- Butter – 100gm
- Icing sugar – 120-130gm
- Maraschino cherry syrup – 1 tablespoon
- Vanilla essence – 1 teaspoon
- Maraschino cherry compote – 1 tablespoon
- Maraschino cherries – to garnish (optional)
Method
Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celsius and line the cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
- Cream the butter and sugar with an electric blender, beat the egg whites in a separate bowl until fluffy and light.
- Add the egg whites to the butter-sugar mix.
- Add in the baking powder, vanilla essence, almond essence and vanilla extract, whip it with the electric blender.
- Add the flour, egg yolks and the cherry syrup to the batter and beat with the blender.
- Add in the buttermilk and give it a last whip to mix it all.
- Fill the cupcake liners to 3/4 and bake for about 20-25 minutes. Check from about 18 minutes.
- Once baked, let it cool.
Cherry compote filling
- Remove the pits of the cherries.
- Cook the cherries with the syrup and sugar on medium heat until all the syrup is cooked and the sugar is melted.
- Remove from heat and make it into a puree with a blender (the cherry pieces should not be fine).
Maraschino cherry buttercream frosting
- Cream the butter using an electric blender, add a batch of icing sugar and whip it.
- Add the vanilla essence and cherry syrup.
- Add another batch of icing sugar and beat.
- Add the cherry puree and the rest of the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
- Once the cupcakes are cooled. Remove the centers using a corer.
- Fill in the centers with cherry compote.
Frost the cupcakes and garnish with a cherry on top.
Happy Baking
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