Posted by: Swee | September 16, 2007

Citrus Poppyseed Cupcakes

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Unbaked cupcakes

This flavour is quite straight forward. I modified from the original recipe and substituted the milk to orange lemon juice, added orange lemon zest and blue poppyseeds.

Vanilla cupcakes recipe
(makes about 2 dozen)

1 1/2 cups Self Raising Flour
1 1/4 cups All Purpose Flour
200g unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
3/4 cup orange lemon juice (1-2 orange, 1 lemon)
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/8 tsp salt
1 1/2 tbsp blue poppyseeds
Zest of orange and lemon

Method

  • Preheat oven to 180 C / 350 C. Sift dry ingredients.
  • Cream butter, sugar and zest till light and fluffy for about 5 minutes.
  • Add in eggs one at a time leaving about 30 -60 seconds between each. After 4 eggs, beat further till the sugar is dissolved.
  • Fold in dry ingredients alternating with liquid (juice) in 3 parts. Means you add in 1/3 flour, fold, 1/3 juice and 1/3 flour..continue..
  • Fill cupcakes 3/4 full and bake for 25 minutes or till skewer comes out clean.
  • If u’re doing frosting / icing, leave it to cool first.

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I added a walnut on top just for fun-ness. Hehe. They were quite dark as compared to the vanilla ones cause they were slightly in the oven longer. But it was still good. I love citrusy flavoured cakes (well, sometimes)

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I guess there weren’t enough poppyseeds in them as I just merely added them to my own instinct. Poppyseeds works well to give the extra texture in the cake (crunch crunch)

The big ones aren’t iced but the mini ones are.

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These were made for KidChan Studio for Sunday’s Bridal Fair in Sheraton Subang. Pretty little hearts oh so sweet. They were so tiny that I think they’re just the size of my thumb. HA HA HA.

PS; just one more flavour to go… 

Responses

wow… you made for kidchan?!!! so cool… and those cupcakes really lovely! thumbs up for you…

Your cupcakes are so cute!!!Did you make those little hearts yourself??i love orange and poppy seed cupcakes..they’re so refreshing..Good job!

Awwww, the mini-cupcakes look so pretty. Love the green! You coloured the batter, was it?

hi meiyen, thanks :)

hello culinaryprincess. The little hearts are bought from shops and yeah, i love em too. thanks ;)

hi ovenhaven., mmm I did not colour them green. It might be the lighting that caused the hues of green. :P But thanks for dropping by

Looks really good Swee. I am not a huge fan of poppy seeds but this looks like something I would enjoy!

I simply adore those little hearts cupcakes! So cute!

Swee, your cuppies rise so nicely, how do you do it? Mine always look as if went thru a hurricane.

Hello Meeta, Thanks :)

Hi wmw, and they look so lovey dovey. hehe

Hey smallcookie, Well, I was actually quite surprised with them this time around. You might wanna try filling the cupcakes to 3/4 of the cup or less to survive hurricane ;)

hello there! I’ve been following your blog for some time and tried out a few recipes already especially the muffins, cheesecake and apple crumble. unfortunately, my cream puffs didn’t really work :( anyway, may i know what’s the difference between cupcakes and muffins? and what’s the ingredients for the icing? cos i’ve tried once making the icing but everything just went wrong: too sweet, too liquid, etc. hopefully you can point me out. thank you :)

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Ooh! I love this idea! I hadn’t thought about swapping milk for citrus juice…I love it!! I was just at Panera Bread yesterday eyeballing their mini poppy seed cupcake, thinking to save my cash because I knew I could do better at home. Now I have a recipe! Thanks so much!!

I love your muffin cups that you used! Where did you find those cute cups??

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