Cupcakes prepared with Blueberry fruit filling and with a simple vanilla glaze.
Ingredients 100 gms plain flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp soda bicarbonate Sift the above dry ingredients together keep aside
25 ml oil 1 egg at room temperature 50 gms powdered sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence 100 gms blue berry fruit filling 2 to 2 and 1/2 tsp of lukewarm water
METHOD Take a deep bowl. Add in oil and egg and whisk well with a hand whisk. Then add in the powdered sugar and whisk again till a creamy texture.
Add vanilla essence , whisk well. Add a tbsp a time the sifted dry flour mix. Mix well with a whisk. Lastly add the blue berry fruit filling and start folding with an addition of 2 to 2and 1/2 tsp of lukewarm water.
Brush cupcake moulds with oil. Dust with plain flour. Add the blue berry mix to the moulds leaving enough space for it to rise.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180degrees for approximately 30 mins or till done.
Once cooled. Take a pipping nozzle and at the centre of the cupcake place the nozzle pressing down and circular motion to make a hole.
Add some blue berry fruit filling into the holes.
For the vanilla glaze
Combine 1/2 cup icing sugar ,1/2 tsp vanilla essence and 5 gms unsalted butter and 1/2 to 1 tsp lukewarm water or sufficient enough to form a firm paste. Stand bowl in a double boiler /over a vessel of simmering water and stir until icing is smooth and glossy. Remove from the heat. Spread the icing over the cupcakes. Top the glaze with some blueberry fruit filling.
Amount 3 big cupcakes
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