Easy Orange Cupcakes Recipe
Updated
Add a tangy and fruity twist to your standard cupcakes with these rich, orange flavoured mini cupcakes!
The ingredients below will make for 9-12 cupcakes, depending on size.
Ingredients
To make 10 servings
- 110g butter or margarine, at room temperature
- 110g caster sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 110g self raising flour
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- 75g butter, at room temperature
- 175g icing sugar
- Juice of 1 orange
- Zest of 2 oranges
How to make Orange cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees/350F/gas 4 and place mini cupcake cases in on a baking tray
- Mix the softened butter and caster sugar together until light and creamy in texture
- Beat in eggs a little at a time, then add vanilla
- Fold in flour a little at a time
- Add a few drops of milk if mixture is too thick
- Bake in oven for about 15-20 minutes, check if cooked by lightly touching the top and if it springs back it’s done
- Leave to cool on a cooling rack, you can make the icing whilst waiting
- Combine softened butter with icing sugar and mix well with a spoon or electric whisk
- Mix in the zest of one orange and a spoonful of juice at a time, don’t make the icing too runny
- Add a small amount of zest from the second orange on top for decoration