Cupcakes for Teacher's Day

Just bake these vanilla cupcakes for my daughter's School Form Teacher, Miss Seet. They are going to celebrate Teacher's Day tomorrow morning. The cupcake is soft and yummy! This is a very good recipe and hope you will give it a try.

Billy's Vanilla, Vanilla Cupcakes

(Makes about 30 cupcakes)

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups cake flour, not self-rising

1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (I use Top Flour)

2 cups sugar (I add 1 2/3 cup)

1 tablespoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup (2 sticks = 250g) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch cubes

4 large eggs

1 cup whole milk

1 teaspoon

pure vanilla extract

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 165°C. Line cupcake pans with paper liners; set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine flours, sugar, baking powder, and salt; mix on low speed until combined. Add butter, mixing until just coated with flour.

2. In a large glass measuring cup, whisk together eggs, milk, and vanilla. With mixer on medium speed, add wet ingredients in 3 parts, scraping down sides of bowl before each addition; beat until ingredients are incorporated but do not over-beat.

3. Divide batter evenly among liners, filling about two-thirds full. Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 17 to 20 minutes.

4. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat process with remaining batter. Once cupcakes have cooled, use a small offset spatula to frost tops of each cupcake. Decorate with sprinkles, if desired. Serve at room temperature.

Billy's Vanilla Buttercream

Colored sprinkles, for decorating (optional)

(Makes enough for 30 cupcakes)

Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks = 250g) unsalted butter, room temperature

6 to 8 cups confectioners' sugar (icing sugar)

1/2 cup milk

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Method:

1. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter until smooth and creamy, 2 to 3 minutes. With mixer on low speed, add 6 cups sugar, milk, and vanilla; mix until light and fluffy. If necessary, gradually add remaining 2 cups sugar to reach desired consistency.

Orange Butter Cupcake

Orange Butter Cake
(makes 23 cupcakes)
Recipe shared by jam (M4M parenting forum)

Ingredients A:
200 g flour ~ (sift together with baking powder and milk powder)
1/4 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tbsp of milk powder
250g butter

Whisk all the above in the mixer till creamy and remove into another bowl, wash and dry the mixer to be used again later.

Ingredients B:
5 eggs
175g castor sugar
2 tbsp of orange juice
1 whole orange zest ~ grate and chopped into fine pieces. do not use the white part as this is bitter.

Method:
1) Beat the eggs and sugar using the mixer till the sugar dissolved, then add in the first mixture of flour, butter, baking powder and milk powder. Mix evenly.

2) Add in orange juice and orange zest and mix well.

3) Pour into a greased baking tray and bake in preheated oven at 170 celcious for about 40 minutes.

4) For making cupcakes, the baking time is around 20 minutes.



Chocolate Icing (small quantity)
Ingredients:
1 square of baking chocolate (melted in double-boiler)
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp milk
1 1/2 cups icing sugar

Method:
Using handwhisk to mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl until smooth.
Then pipe them on top of the cupcakes.