Little is MORE

Recently, i have the honour of baking a batch of 100 cupcakes for a friend's wedding refreshment.
I'm very excited as i love baking cupcakes, or more precisely, i love decorating these little cakes.
First thing, is to decided what flavour the cupcake base will be, so, between the basic vanilla and chocolate, i decided to do something more special, since it's a spring wedding, i decided to do a summer flavour base cupcake, and frost them with tangy cream cheese frosting.
I actually make about 150 more mini cupcake, and decorated them in 4 diffrent style.


these cupcakes is so easy to bake, anyone should try it, as you only need to dirty 1 bowl, and you do not need to beat the sugar and butter, everything can be done using a hand whisk!!

Orange Cupcakes


Ingrediant:

• 2 cups SR flour, sifted.
• 3/4 cup castor sugar
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup milk
• 125 g butter, melted and cooled
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 tbsp orange blossom water ( or orange essence )
• 2 tbsp of orange zest
  
• handful of white chocolate chips ( optional )

Method:

1. Preheated oven at 200 degree celcious. Line two 24 holes mini muffin pan with colourful paper cases.
2. combine melted butter, orange juice, milk , eggs, orange water and zest in a jug. Whisk to combine.
3. In a bowl, combine flour and sugar, and make a well in centre.
   
4. Pour the butter, milk mixture into the flour sugar mixture, stir with a ballon whisk until all just combine. Stir in zest and white chocolate chips.
5. Put one teaspoon of the batter into the prepared paper cases. Be careful to only fill it half way, other wise the cake will over flow!!
6. Bake in pre-heated oven for about 12 mins.
7. Cool on wire rack.
   
8. Frost and decorated them once cooled.

( the above recipe will produce about 48 cupcakes )

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 125 g butter, soften
• 250g cream cheese, soften
• 4 cups pure icing sugar
• 2 tbsp orange blossom water
• food colours

Method:

1. Beat everything except the colours together until it tripple in volume.
2. divide the frosting into saperate bowl, and dye them with your choice of food colour.
3. put in the fridge for 10 mins before frost them on cooled cupcakes.

( the above frosting is more than enough to frost 150 mini cupcakes )