Vanilla Orange Cup Cakes

  Use to make butter cakes every other weekend, so I thought why not make cup cakes. So off to Wah Seng I went to get the muffin pan and paper liners to make the cup cakes. Some just fill the paper liners and set it on a tray to bake but this way doesn't hold the shape of the paper liners properly. Laying the paper liners onto a muffin pan really mantains the shape of the cup cakes. 

Ingredients:

185 gm self raising flour

  65 gm  flour

250 gm buttercup

120 gm castor sugar

    4 eggs

    1 orange (zest of 1 orange)

150 ml (juice of 1 orange + milk)

    2 tbsp almond powder

    1 tsp vanilla essence

Method:

1. Sift the flours together. Add the almond powder and mix together with the sifted flour. Mix the zest of the orange with the castor sugar until the sugar turns orangish in colour.
2. Cream butter and sugar until creamy and pale in colour.
3. Beat in eggs one at a time thoroughly mixing before adding the next egg, then add in the vanilla essence.
4. Fold in the flour into the above mixture alternatively with the orange juice + milk.
5. Spoon the batter into a muffin pan lined with cup cake liners
6. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in a preheated oven 170° C.