You will need :- 12 cupcakes
- 140 g self raising flour
- 40 ml sunflower oil
- handful of crushed pistachio
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
- 120 g sugar
- 175ml milk at room temperature
- 1 tsp natural yogurt
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- few drops of cardamom essence
- 125 g butter at room temperature
- 200 g cream cheese ( hang the cheese in a muslin cloth to remove any water )
- 150 g icing sugar
- Few drops of saffron essence
- 2-3 saffron threads soaked in a 1tsp warm milk
Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 or 175-180 degree C. Line 12 cupcake trays with paper cups. In a one bowl sift the dry ingredients together except sugar. Mix milk and cider vinegar and leave it for 5 minutes. It should curdle a little. Now mix milk mixture and other wet ingredients, whisk about 3-4 minutes. Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture and combine. Now fill cup cakes with batter up the half way of paper cups. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer ( toothpick ) inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Let the cup cakes cool completely.
Method for the frosting:-
Whip up the butter and cheese till light and fluffy, add sugar, essence and saffron thread and whip up few seconds. Fill a piping bag with choice of your nozzle with saffron frosting. Pipe your cupcakes .
Damn cute and elegant cupcakes, well done Jags..
ReplyDeleteThanks Priya..very quick :-))
ReplyDeleteWow...those cuties look so yummy and tempting.Perfect for the occasion..
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cupcakes.
ReplyDeleteThank you girls...@Deepa, muje 9th cloud pe mat bhejo....:-))
ReplyDeleteCute cup cakes. Love to follow u
ReplyDeleteThese have turned out beautiful and look delicious.
ReplyDeleteNice Indian touch to it! The name of cupcake itself sounds soooo good!!
ReplyDeleteDid you use Philadelphia Cream Cheese? Just wondering why would you hang it in muslin cloth because it doesn't have water anyway...
(if you're replying to this you can just reply here, I'll come back to check!) :)
Thank you Nish for lovely comment. yes Nish I did use philadelphia cheese, wen I made it first time my frosting went runny, I kept adding sugar but it wasn't helping. so second time I used kitchen towle ( paper ) to soak all the water from the cheese then frosting came out perfect. Maybe the pot I had , had little wter...:-(
ReplyDeletesimply superb...i'm drooling over here.
ReplyDeletewow..cute muffins..looks yummy!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome :)
ReplyDeleteAh ok, I get it now..
And hey Jagruti, I hope you won't mind this - but the comments font is kinda difficult to read, you know what I mean? Not sure if others feel the same... :-/
Nish, just a comment or post as well...coz I was thinking changing font of post..not sure what others thinks? let me ask them on fb...
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Awesome delicious eggless cupcake...
ReplyDeletewow that looks beautiful. nice treat for eyes and must taste yum for sure
ReplyDelete@ Nish
ReplyDeleteI have asked other fellows, they says it seems ok. So Idon't know..
Ushnish Ghosh No problem so far! If at all ,in future, I can enlarge in Google chrome or request you to change the font size...just relax and keep posting !
Sugan Sputnik no no jag,al smooth,keep peaking dear :)
Nilisha Agarwal di they r fine...........not to worry..............u just carry on!!!!
Manju Thanky I am very happy with ur blog...its very clear..so stop worrying your self..we all are with you...I wish you nice day...xx.
I am usually not very keen on cupcakes, and prefer a decent slice of cakes, but your cupcakes look so adult and sophisticated, elegant and stylish, just a piece of art on a plate. I might be converted into baking them myself. :)
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