Orange Cupcakes with Icing

Sounds delicious isit? I decided to make cupcakes after some reports on the papers that its getting popular nowadays. Moreover I need a break from baking muffins.

Orange Cupcakes

Ingredients

1 and 3/4 cup cake flour

1/2 cup orange juice (preferrably with REAL juice)

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

2 large eggs separated (i used 3 medium eggs)

113 grams of unsalted butter (I used maragine. Its healthier)

1 cup castor sugar

Method

Preheat your oven to 180degrees celicus

Combine butter, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla in a mixing bowl. Cream these ingredients together thoroughly.

Mix flour, salt, and baking powder together in a separate mixing bowl. Add dry ingredients to creamed ingredients 1/3 at a time alternating with adding portions of the orange juice to the creamed mixture.

Fold in beaten egg whites. Spoon batter into cupcake liners until 1/2 full.

Bake in a 350 degree preheated oven for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

How about the icing? Its very easy. just mix a cup of icing sugar with 2 tablespoon of maragine and 2 teaspoon of orange juice together with a tablespoon of orange zest and ABRACADABRA!!! you got your own icing.