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.

Yogurt, honey & nuts muffin

Its my baking day again! This time, I tried something healthy. It got this recipe from a cookbook I borrowed from my colleague.

Ingredients:
55g butter
5 Tbsp clear honey
250ml plain yogurt (I used peach yogurt)
1 large egg (I used two small eggs)
65ml lemon juice
140g plain flour
170g wholemeal flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cinnamon

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180degree celisus
In a saucepan, melt the butter and honey. Remove from hea and set aside to cool slighty
In bowl, whisk togehter the yogurt, eff, lemon juice. Add the butter and honey mixture. Set aside.
In another bowl, sift together the dry ingredients (I sift twice)
Fold the dry ingredient into the yogurt mixture to blend,
Fill the prepared cups two third full and bake for 20-25 mins or until its golden brown.

Light cheesecake

The "baking bug" bite me tonight. I got "Japanese Light Cheesecake" virus. This cake dont look as good as those sold outside however I was pleased with it because

1. it really turned out LIGHT
2. its not too sweet
3. my dad likes it!
   

Ingredient:
Cookie Base
3 nos of Digestive Biscuits
1 tbsp of maragine
A dust of cinnamon

Filling
1 packet of cream cheese (softened)
1/4 cup of milk
2 edd yolks , 2 egg white
1/4 cup of castor sugar
1/3 tsp of tartar sauce
3 tbsp of flour
1 1/2 tbsp of cornstarch

Method:

• Preheat the over to 180 degree celcius
• Warm cream cheese & milk in a small sauce pan over medium low heat. Cook & stir till cream cheese is melted. Set aside.
• Beat (with electric mixer) egg yolk & half of the sugar unit light & fluffy.
• Fold in cream cheese mixture into yolks
• Sift the floor and cornstarch and stir into the mixture till its well blended
• In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites with tartar cream till they can hold soft peak. Gradually sprinkle in the remaining sugar and conitnue whipping to stiff peaks
• Fold the egg whites into the cream cheese mixture
  
• Pour into the prepared cake pan
• Bake for 20mins @ 180 degree celcius then reduce to 160 degree celcius for 15 mins
  

Cookies

the Cookies i made dun smell like those from famous amos but i very happy with my 1st trial results. Not too sweet. crispy.

thus I would like to share the recipe. tried & tested.

my guinea pigs verdict: great! (who r my guinea pigs: my mama, papa, bros)


Ingredients
3/4 cup unsalted butter, soften
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cup of all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
200g chocolate chips (unsweeten)
and a bit of milk

Method:
Preheat oven to 180deg
Sift flour thogether with baking powder.
Cream together butter n sugar until fluffy. Add egg, vanilla n blend in.
Mix the rest of the dry ingredients then stir in the choclate
drop the cookie dough onto greased baking sheetings and bake for 10-15mins