Strawberry and Vanilla Cupcakes!
Strawberry and Vanilla Cupcakes
Ingredients for the batter:
1.
All-purpose flour- 2 ½ cups.
2.
Butter-250gms.( kept in room temperature)
3.
Eggs: 2
4.
Vanilla Extract: 1 tablespoon.
5.
Sugar- 2 cups.
6.
Salt: ½ teaspoon.
7.
Milk-1 cup.
8.
Baking Powder:2 teaspoon.
Ingredients for butter-cream frosting:
1.
Butter- 50gms (kept in room temperature)
2.
Confectioners’ sugar- 2 cups.
3.
Salt- A pinch or two.
4.
Vanilla extract- 1 teaspoon.
5.
Strawberry preserves- 3 tablespoon.
Process:
This is very light mixture, so I did not use the electric
mixer for this. I just used the large egg beater, but you can always use the
electric mixer if you want J
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Pre-heat the oven to 200
degrees centigrade.
Ø Place muffin
covers in your muffin tray or grease your muffin moulds and keep them aside.
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In a separate bowl crack the eggs. Now you always want to crack eggs separately, just to avoid any rotten one
mixing up with rest of the ingredients.
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In a separate bowl or in the electric mixer, add
butter and sugar and blend it until they are nice and creamy.
Ø
Add your eggs and vanilla extract and mix/blend
everything together.
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Add this moment you add all-purpose flour, salt,
baking powder and slowly add milk and combine everything together.
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Make sure you do not over mix/blend the batter,
this will turn your cake into bread; which we don’t want :P
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This is going to be smooth batter and not runny
at all. Now fill your muffin tray or the muffin moulds and pop them inside the
oven for 15-20 minutes. (Remember we are making cupcakes and not muffins, so do
not over fill the moulds).
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Having said that, remember every
oven is different and the temperature does differ. So keep checking your cupcakes
after 15 mins. You know it’s cooked, when a toothpick inserted in the middle of
the cupcakes would come clean without any mess.
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Once you know the cupcakes
are ready! Turn off the oven and remove them from the heat and allow them to
cool completely before frosting them.
For the butter-cream frosting:
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In a mixing bowl add butter,
confectionary sugar, teaspoon of vanilla extract, pinch of salt and strawberry
preserves.
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With the help of an electric hand blender,
mix everything together.
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Fill the piping bag and decorate your
cupcakes.
Make this amazing cupcakes for yourself or for your loved ones.
Happy cooking!!
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