For that special occasion

The wave of baking cupcakes is high in sydney, so is in my household.
Every occasion that you can think of, be it weddings, birthdays, anniversary...more and more people choose cupcakes over the traditional cake. I came acroos this elegant little cupcakes, suitable for a wedding, and my hand just start to itch and i have to bake them, even though, there are no occasion at the moment! I can't say it's a piece of cake for making them, but they're not that hard either, just more work because these little cakes contain some suprise in them.
They taste heavenly and if you like greentea like i do, you'll love them!

Green tea suprise capcakes

For the cakes:

115g butter, soften

1/2 cup caster sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

11/2 cups SR flour, sifted

145ml milk

1. Preheat oven to 200 degree celcius
2. Line a 12 hole muffin pans with paper cases
3. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer until light and fluffy
4. Gradually beat in eggs.
5. Add half the flour, and fold it into the egg mixture with a spatula, add half the milk.
6. Alternate the addition of flour and milk into egg mixture, until just combine.
7. Divide mixture evenly into the 12 paper cases, bake for 15-18 mins.
8. when tested with the skewer, it should come out clean.
9. Allows the cake to cool complelty, before doing any decoration.

* this is a basic vanilla flavoured cupcake base, suitable to add any decoration or filling*

For a Greentea cupcakes, i filled it with greentea bubble cream

Greentea bubble cream

1/4 cup sago

1 cup milk

1/2 can coconut milk

pinch of salt

1 egg yolk

1/4 cup caster sugar

2 tsp matcha ( greentea powder )

1. Cooked sago following packet instruction, using milk and coconut milk instead of water.
2. When sago is cooked, it turn translucent.
3. Whisk egg yolk with sugar and match, gently whisk the green tea mixture into sago.
4. Continue to simmer on low heat until thickend. Transfer to a bowl

* I make the bubble cream 1 night before i bake the cupcakes, and cooled them in the fridge *

Greentea Frosting

1 cup icing sugar

1 cup double whipping cream

1 tsp matcha

Whisk everything together until thick and spreadable.

To assemble

1. Hold a sharp, pointed knife at a downward angle and cut a round from the top of each cakes.

2. Filled the cut-cakes with bubble cream, and cover the cutted round back into the filled cakes.

3. Frost the cake with frosting.

Cross section of the cupcakes...