Showing posts with label frosting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frosting. Show all posts
Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcake With Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
We Baking Partners will be baking different bakes every month and will be posting every 15th of the month. This month challenge is cupcakes or muffins, this is our third challenge after a wonderful almond cake and cookies. Swathi of Zesty South Indian Kitchen, the brain child of this fabulous baking event send us three interesting cupcake and muffin recipes.Three of our baking partners suggested us these beautiful recipes and i choosed to bake two among them,one is this super delicious,addictive chocolate pumpkin cupcake. When its comes a bake with chocolate, everyone at home will never hesitate a second to request me to make some.While going through the mail i recieved with this months challenge, i know ill be making this chocolate pumpkin cupcakes and gathered everything to make this incredible cupcakes during a weekend. My kids enjoyed thoroughly and even my lil one helped to squeeze out the frosting.Priya R of Cook Like Priya suggested this cupcake recipe from Country of Living.
2+1/2cups All purpose flour
2tbsp All purpose flour
4nos Eggs
1+1/2cups Sugar
1+1/2cups Pumpkin puree
2tsp Vanilla extract
2+1/4sticks Softened butter
1cup Cocoa powder
1tbsp Baking powder
1+1/2tsp Baking soda
2tsp Cinnamin powder
3/4tsp Nutmeg powder
3/4cup Buttermilk
Preheat the oven to 350F, line the cupcake moulds with cupcake papers, but i used my silicon moulds.
Sift the flour with cocoa powder,baking soda,cinnamon powder and nutmeg powder in a large bowl and keep aside.
Combine the buttermilk,pumpkin puree, vanilla extract in an another bowl and keep aside.
Beat the butter,sugar together in a bowl with a electroc mixer until the mixture turns fluffy, add the eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.
Alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture,blending well after each addition.
Spoon out this batter to the already prepared cupcake moulds and bake in middle rack for 20-25minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Keep aside and let them cool completely.
Orange Cream Cheese Frosting:
1cup Cream cheese (softened)
1/4cup Softened unsalted butter
1tbsp Fresh orange juice
1tsp Orange zest (grated)
4cups Confectioners sugar
1/2tsp Vanilla extract
2pinch Orange food colour
Blend the cream cheese,butter,orange juice,orange zest,vanilla in a large bowl using a electric mixture until smooth.
Slowly add the sugar and continue to beat until the mixture turns light and creamy.Arrange in fridge atleast for an hour before frosting.
Fill this chilled frosting in a pastry bag with your favourite nozzle or tip and squeeze gently to decorate.
Enjoy this cupcake with a cup of tea, beware that this cupcakes are pretty addictive.
Vanilla Yule Log Cake With Coffee Mascarpone Frosting
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Yule log cake aka Buche de Noël, christmas without yule log cake i cant even imagine it. We get every year store bought yule log cake from our nearby bakery, last year i tried my hands with a simple chocolate yule log cake as everyone enjoyed thoroughly, i decided that day not to buy anymore this festive cake.As i chosed christmas special as theme for this weeks blogging marathon, i prepared an another yule log cake with vanilla and coffee mascarpone frosting.
This yule log cake was a big hit at home,with a mild coffee flavour this vanilla log cake is definitely a pect cake for the celebration and this recipe is a keeper for me.Am planning to make the same yule log cake with a different frosting for our christmas dinner, as everyone at home asked me to make some again.May be ill go for a caramel based frosting or a dark chocolate ganache with the same vanilla sponge cake or else with a chocolate sponge.Check out the other bloggers running this 23rd edition of blogging marathon here.Sending to 60days of Christmas hosted by Priya and Divya.
For Cake:
4nos Eggs
1/2cup Sugar
1/4cup Flour
1/4cup Cornflour
1/4tsp Baking powder
Preheat the oven to 250F.
Separate the eggs whites and egg yolks.Sieve together the flours,baking powder and keep aside.
Beat the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl until they turns smooth and pale yellow creamy mixture, add slowly the sieved flours and mix everything well.
Meannwhile beat the egg whites separately with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form, gently fold the egg whites to the already prepared flour mixture and mix everything well.
Pour the mixture in a tray lined with greased baking paper..bake for 15minutes and immediately roll the baked cake in a slightly wet towel and let it get cool.
Coffee Mascarpone Frosting:
1cup Mascarpone cheese
1/2cup Heavy cream
1tbsp Instant coffee powder
1/2cup Confectioners sugar
Beat the heavy cream until stiff peaks form.
In an another bowl,beat the mascarpone cheese,coffee powder and confectioners sugar until everything get well mixed.
Gently fold the cream to the cheese mixture and mix well. Keep in fridge for atleast an hour before starting the frosting.
Once the cake roll get cooled,with a spatula spread the coffee mascarpone frosting over the cake roll.
Roll again well and spread well the remaining frosting over the rolled cake roll.
With a fork make some lines over the frosting and arrange in fridge for two or three hours.
I springled few chocolate curls over the roll before arranging in fridge.
This yule log cake was a big hit at home,with a mild coffee flavour this vanilla log cake is definitely a pect cake for the celebration and this recipe is a keeper for me.Am planning to make the same yule log cake with a different frosting for our christmas dinner, as everyone at home asked me to make some again.May be ill go for a caramel based frosting or a dark chocolate ganache with the same vanilla sponge cake or else with a chocolate sponge.Check out the other bloggers running this 23rd edition of blogging marathon here.Sending to 60days of Christmas hosted by Priya and Divya.
For Cake:
4nos Eggs
1/2cup Sugar
1/4cup Flour
1/4cup Cornflour
1/4tsp Baking powder
Preheat the oven to 250F.
Separate the eggs whites and egg yolks.Sieve together the flours,baking powder and keep aside.
Beat the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl until they turns smooth and pale yellow creamy mixture, add slowly the sieved flours and mix everything well.
Meannwhile beat the egg whites separately with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form, gently fold the egg whites to the already prepared flour mixture and mix everything well.
Pour the mixture in a tray lined with greased baking paper..bake for 15minutes and immediately roll the baked cake in a slightly wet towel and let it get cool.
Coffee Mascarpone Frosting:
1cup Mascarpone cheese
1/2cup Heavy cream
1tbsp Instant coffee powder
1/2cup Confectioners sugar
Beat the heavy cream until stiff peaks form.
In an another bowl,beat the mascarpone cheese,coffee powder and confectioners sugar until everything get well mixed.
Gently fold the cream to the cheese mixture and mix well. Keep in fridge for atleast an hour before starting the frosting.
Once the cake roll get cooled,with a spatula spread the coffee mascarpone frosting over the cake roll.
Roll again well and spread well the remaining frosting over the rolled cake roll.
With a fork make some lines over the frosting and arrange in fridge for two or three hours.
I springled few chocolate curls over the roll before arranging in fridge.
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