I’m not really a big fan of mandarins, they are ok but I’d much prefer an orange over mandarins any day. However as this fruit is not common in baking I of course had to create a recipe that not only included this fruit as an ingredient but “heroed” the fruit and had to tasted bloody delicious. For this reason this recipe makes it to my blog – I was super surprised at how amazingly tasty these cupcakes are.
Ingredients:
- 180g butter
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 tsn vanilla essence
- 2 mandarins (2 zest and juice)
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups self raising four
- ¾ cup yoghurt
Icing:
- 250g cream cheese
- 2 + 1/3 cups icing sugar
- 1 mandarin (zest for icing and segments for decoration)
Method:
- Pre-heat oven to 180c degrees and line a 16 hole cupcake pan with patty cases.
- Beat together the butter, sugar, vanilla and zest until pale and smooth.
- Add the eggs one at a time.
- Squeeze the 2 mandarins with a juicer for the juice.
- Fold through the flour, yoghurt and juice until the batter is well combined.
- Spoon batter into cupcake patties until 2/3 full.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool on cooling tray.
- To make the icing beat together ingredients for 5 minutes until smooth and creamy .
- Pipe icing on top of the cupcakes and top with half a mandarin segment.
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