Vanilla Cup Cake

Cup cakes are my all time favourites. Cute, cuddly and "cakilicious: :) Here's a recipe that is simple and the best thing is, stored in an airtight container they stay upto 5 days. So go ahead bake, store and relish every now and then !

TIDBIT - The key aspect of baking is that before you start, make sure all the ingredients are at room temperature, unless otherwise mentioned.

The recipe here makes about 12 - 14 cup cakes depending on how much batter you put into each cup.

For this you will need -

Hand Mixer / You could mix with hand if you have enough muscle power!
113 gm Unsalted Butter
130 gm Castor Sugar
195 gm Flour
3 Eggs
60 ml Milk
1 tspn Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 tspn Baking Powder
1/4 tspn Salt ( not required, if using salted butter)
Zest of 1 Lemon (Only the outer yellow part. The inner white part is very bitter!)

To make the cup cakes -

Line your cups/ cup cake tray with store bought paper cups and pre heat your oven to 180 deg C.

Beat the butter and sugar till light and fluffy with your hand mixer. Then add eggs, one at a time and beat till you get a yellow ribbon like consistency. Once obtained, beat in the vanilla extract.

Separately, sieve together flour, baking powder, lemon zest and salt, thrice.

Now, add the flour mixture and the milk alterantingly to the butter mixture little by little, starting and ending with the flour mixture. Beat this just enough to have all the ingredients turned into a consistent batter.

Fill the cups to not more than two- thirds, with the batter. Bake for about 15-20 minutes and check to see if a toothpick inserted comes out clean, before taking them out of the oven.

Since I have only a six cup tray, I bake six and then do another batch and with this batter, there is absolutely no problem. If the season is very dry, just make sure to close the batter in between batches.

This recipe was taken from http://www.joyofbaking.com/VanillaCupcakes.html

Joyofbaking is a great site for all bakers. Some of the recipes are simple, some are unique and worth a try, just like this one :)