Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting - India Flag Special Cupcakes for Republic Day

Wish you all a very Happy 64^th Republic Day to all my Readers, bloggers, friends!!!

I thought I would enhance this year Republic Day celebrations with tri colors of our India flag and baked these delicious vanilla cupcakes with awesome colors of frosting 

A recipe for vanilla cupcakes and butter cream frosting is a perfect pair for model cupcakes. These are very simple to make and taste so yummy

Orange cupcakes with Vanilla Cream Cheese Icing

I haven’t made cup cakes at home for long.  So baked these beautiful cupcakes over the weekend. They came out so wonderful and the frosting was so yummy!! Loved it!!

I thought to use orange in these cupcakes as this blend of fruit would be the perfect way to kick off our summer.

Ingredients:

For 8 Cupcakes

All purpose flour – 1 cup

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Whole milk – 4 tsp

Vanilla extract – 1 tsp

Unsalted butter –1/4 cup, room temperature

Egg – 2

Sugar – 3/4 cup

Orange juice - 5 tsps

Orange zest - of 1 orange

Salt a pinch

For frosting

Cream cheese – 40 oz, room temperature

Vanilla extract – 1 tsp

Powdered sugar – 1 cup

Preparation

• In a medium bowl, take unsalted butter, sugar and beat for few minutes until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs and mix well.
• Add vanilla extract, baking powder, milk, orange juice and mix well.
• Slowly add the flour , salt (a pinch) and  mix well.
• Now add Orange zest and mix well
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Put paper liners in 8 cupcake tins and fill them to ¾ with batter.
• Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.
• Transfer cupcakes and let them cool before icing.

For frosting 

• In a bowl beat cream cheese and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add vanilla and mix well.
• Frosting should be dense and creamy.
• Use your creativity to decorate the cupcake using frosting bags.

Note : Put the frosting after the cupcake gets cooled, if not frosting melts.


Sending this to Veggie/Fruit a Month - Orange hosted by Savitha originally started by Priya and Let's Cook - Break Time Snacks hosted by Radhika 

Strawberry Cupcakes

Today I tried baking cupcakes by using fresh delicious strawberries. Also made frosting using fresh strawberry puree. The cupcakes turned out lusciously and the frosting was pleasantly fruity. I used fresh strawberries and colorful sugar crystals for garnishing. This is the recipe for Pretty Pink Strawberry Cupcakes

Ingredients:

For 6 Cupcakes

Fresh Strawberry – 2 nos

All purpose flour – ½ cup

Baking powder – ½ tsp

Whole milk – 2 tsp

Vanilla extract – ½ tsp

Unsalted butter – ½ stick, room temperature

Egg – 1

Sugar – ½ cup

For frosting

Strawberry – 3-4 nos

Unsalted butter – ½ stick, room temperature

Vanilla extract – ½ tsp

Powdered sugar – 1 cup

 Preparation:

• Puree the strawberries in a food processor.
• In a small bowl, mix strawberry puree (4 tsps), milk, vanilla extract and keep it aside.
• In a medium bowl, take unsalted butter, sugar and beat for few minutes until light and fluffy.
• Add the egg and mix well.
• Slowly add the flour ,salt (a pinch) and  mix well.
• Now add the above strawberry milk mixture and mix well
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Put paper liners in 6 cupcake tins and fill them to ¾ with batter.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean.
• Transfer cupcakes and let them cool before icing.

For frosting 

• Puree the strawberries
• In a bowl beat butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add vanilla, ½ cup strawberries puree and mix well.
• Frosting should be dense and creamy.
• Use your creativity to decorate the cupcake using frosting bags.

Note : Put the frosting after the cupcake gets cooled, if not frosting melts.

Sending to Cooking with fruits hosted by Smita, Veggie fruit a month hosted by pari & originally started by Priya  , Best Western Desserts hosted by priya and Kid's Delight hosted by Champa.