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Tangerine Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
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200g SCS Unsalted Butter, softened
150g caster sugar
3 eggs
430g self-raising flour, sifted
2 Chinese dried tangerines, seeds removed and coarsely chopped, more for garnishing (optional)
1 tsp vanilla essence
60ml milk
For the frosting
80g SCS Unsalted Butter, softened
100g SCS Cream Cheese
200g icing sugar sifted, more as needed
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp lemon juice
Yellow food colouring, as needed
150g caster sugar
3 eggs
430g self-raising flour, sifted
2 Chinese dried tangerines, seeds removed and coarsely chopped, more for garnishing (optional)
1 tsp vanilla essence
60ml milk
For the frosting
80g SCS Unsalted Butter, softened
100g SCS Cream Cheese
200g icing sugar sifted, more as needed
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp lemon juice
Yellow food colouring, as needed
Method
1. Preheat oven to 170C. Line a 12-hole muffin tray with cupcake liners.
2. Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition.
3. Fold sifted flour into butter and egg mixture. Add dried tangerines, vanilla essence
and milk and mix well.
4. Divide cupcake mixture between the 12 cupcake liners. Bake cupcakes for 25 mins or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
5. To prepare frosting, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add icing sugar a few spoonfuls at a time, followed by the vanilla essence, lemon juice and food colouring. Continue to
beat until smooth. Add more icing sugar, if necessary, until the frosting holds its shape.
6. Fit a piping bag with the frosting tip of your choice. Fill half the bag and pipe your desired design on each cupcake. Garnish each with dried tangerine before serving, if using.
Steps for Creating a Cupcake Bouquet:
1. Get a styrofoam ball or flower foam that would fit snugly into your flowerpot.
2. Wrap the ball with paper napkins and secure with sticky tape.
3. Place the ball into the flowerpot, with at least half of the ball’s still visible.
4. Push a skewer/satay stick into the styrofoam ball starting from the top, leaving about 4cm of the pointy end sticking out. Gently push a cupcake onto the skewer. Alternatively, stick the skewer, pointy side in, through a cupcake, before inserting the skewered cupcake onto the styrofoam ball.
5. Continue with the rest of the cupcakes, making sure that the cupcakes are as close together
as possible, until the whole ball is covered.
6. Decorate the pot with ribbons, if desired.
2. Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition.
3. Fold sifted flour into butter and egg mixture. Add dried tangerines, vanilla essence
and milk and mix well.
4. Divide cupcake mixture between the 12 cupcake liners. Bake cupcakes for 25 mins or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
5. To prepare frosting, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add icing sugar a few spoonfuls at a time, followed by the vanilla essence, lemon juice and food colouring. Continue to
beat until smooth. Add more icing sugar, if necessary, until the frosting holds its shape.
6. Fit a piping bag with the frosting tip of your choice. Fill half the bag and pipe your desired design on each cupcake. Garnish each with dried tangerine before serving, if using.
Steps for Creating a Cupcake Bouquet:
1. Get a styrofoam ball or flower foam that would fit snugly into your flowerpot.
2. Wrap the ball with paper napkins and secure with sticky tape.
3. Place the ball into the flowerpot, with at least half of the ball’s still visible.
4. Push a skewer/satay stick into the styrofoam ball starting from the top, leaving about 4cm of the pointy end sticking out. Gently push a cupcake onto the skewer. Alternatively, stick the skewer, pointy side in, through a cupcake, before inserting the skewered cupcake onto the styrofoam ball.
5. Continue with the rest of the cupcakes, making sure that the cupcakes are as close together
as possible, until the whole ball is covered.
6. Decorate the pot with ribbons, if desired.
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