I have been craving citrus lately. Oranges. Tangerines. Tanglelos (my favorite). Grapefruit. Nectarines. You name it - I want it. And we all know what a love for citrus paired with a love for baking equals - cupcakes! Yes, these are cupcakes - not muffins (the texture, if you could taste them, would prove it!)
I can hear you asking now, "Why aren't they iced?" Well, my friends, that's because I CANNOT MAKE ICING. I'm not ashamed to say it ... I'm a failure. Well, that might be harsh, but why is icing so difficult for me? I tried seven-minute frosting this summer - and it worked okay, but it never really hardened. (I dipped my minis into the icing in that case because it was just so runny.)
If any of you have fail-proof recipes (that I can use to prove you wrong and make them fail), pass them along. I had dreams of topping these orange cupcakes with orange buttercream frosting, but that just didn't happen.
They did get a couple of drizzles of white chocolate glaze, because really, when you make an orange cupcake, don't you want it to taste like oranges? So, icing be damned - these puppies were still tasty.
Bee Lian's Rich Orange Cake
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INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons grated orange zest
2 egg yolks
1 cup self-rising flour
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
2 egg whites
1 pinch salt
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).Grease one 8 inch round cake pan. Sift flour and set aside.
2. Cream butter, sugar and grated orange zest until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolks one at a time. Fold in sifted flour, alternating with orange juice.
3. In another bowl, whisk egg whites until stiff and add a pinch of salt. Fold whisked egg whites into the mixture. Spoon batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean.
White Chocolate Glaze
1/2 C vanilla or white chips
2 T heavy whipping cream
Melt in microwave-safe bowl; stir until smooth; drizzle.
2 comments:
YUM. Those look really good.
Have you ever tried Paula Deen's lemon blossoms? They are DEE-VINE. Seriously, yum.
RYC: My kitchen at the other apartment only took 3 coats to cover... on white walls! Go figure! It looks so good in the end, though!
They look lovely and I bet they'd be great with an orange buttercream. I don't have a buttecream recipe to pass on but I have had good luck with the neoclassic buttercream in Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible
If you like baking it's a book that's definitely worth checking out. I've had tremendous success with a lot of her recipes. There's also lots of good technical information about baking.
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