Hot Orange Juice Butter Cupcake

I am always interested in butter cake recipes that utilise low butter yet still can achieve good aroma, moist and soft texture 💕💕

When I chanced upon a butter cupcake recipe, I halved the quantity, made some changes, and baked 7 small delicious butter cupcakes that we all enjoyed 😋😋

In order to differentiate it from normal butter cupcake recipes, I added “hot” in the title to better describe its preparation method 🌼🌼

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Ingredients

[A]

60g orange juice , sweetened

30g unsalted butter 

5g honey 

3g orange zest 

3g rice bran oil/vegetable oil

[B]

1 egg, about 58~60g each

1/8 tsp low sodium salt

30g fine sugar

30g raw sugar

[C]

75g plain flour

3g baking powder

Pinch vanillin powder 

Directions 

1. Heat [A] till reaching 75 to 80℃. Cover with a lid to keep the temperature within that range.

2. In a clean, dry and oil-free mixing bowl beat egg white of [B] till frothy, add salt, followed by the two sugars. 

When the meringue reaches firm peak stage, mix in the egg yolk till well combined.

3. Progressively, mix sieved [C] to [B] in a few batches.

4. Take about 1/4 of [B+C] mixture to mix with the warm [A] in step 1. 

When well-combined, pour back to [B+C] mixture, and mix well.

5. Pour about 41 to 42g of batter to 7 paper cake cups (6x5 cm), or till about 4/5 in height.

Place all the batter-filled paper cake cups over a tray.

6. Bake at middle rack of a preheated oven at 180℃ for about 20 minutes or till golden.

7. Dilute about 1 tsp of golden syrup with about 1/8 tsp of warm water. Brush a thin coat of the diluted golden syrup over the crust while the cakes are hot. 

This step is optional, it only helps to give the crust a glossy-look 🌼

8. Serve warm or room temperature. Enjoy 😋😋

Air Fryer One-Egg Butter Cupcake

A small-portion butter cupcake recipe added with one egg, and baked fast in an air fryer in just 10 minutes.

Nice caramel aroma and fine soft crumbs were the two points I liked about these small butter cupcakes. Very suitable to be served as night snack if you just want to satisfy a small craving for butter cake 😋😜

Video of the preparation:

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Air Fryer Butter Cupcake

Yield: nine petite cupcakes

Paper cup size: 3 cm base, bought from Daiso 

Baking temperature: Preheated air fryer at 150℃ for 3 minutes. Bake at 150℃ for 10 minutes, or till golden brown and cooked through.

Ingredients

All ingredients in room temperature

Using 55g eggs

A

38g unsalted butter, softened

2g rice bran oil/mild flavour vegetable oil 

15g raw sugar

15g fine sugar

Pinch of salt

B

1 egg

5g raw sugar

5g fine sugar

C

30g top/cake flour

10g plain flour

5g milk powder

1g baking powder

D

8g orange juice, sweetened 

5g honey

2g orange peel, chopped finely

1/2 tsp vanilla extract 

𝓓𝓲𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼
1.Beat Ingredient B till light and frothy. 

2. Cream Ingredient A using a hand whisk till light and pale.

3. Blend Ingredient B to A till well combined.

4. Mix and sieve in Ingredient C, mix well.

5. Blend Ingredient D to batter till smooth and glossy.

6. Pour batter to paper cake cup, about 22g batter each cup.  Lightly bang against work top to level batter and get rid of trapped air bubbles.

7. Transfer the filled paper cups to a small pan.

8. Preheated air fryer at 150℃ for 3 minutes. Bake at 150℃ for 10 minutes, or till golden brown and cooked through.

9. Remove the hot cup cakes from air fryer, and cool down over wire rack for 5 minutes. . 

Cover the cupcakes with food wrap while cooling down to lock the moisture in, optional

10. Serve after cooling down 😋

Mandarin Orange Peel Butter-oil Sponge Cake

Saved your mandarin orange peel and add it to a cake batter, and baked a moist and delicious sponge cake without artificial colouring and flavour 🧡🧡🧡

Yield: 1 round cake

Pan size: 6x3" round pan

Oven type: oven with temperature surround feature

Baking temperature: Preheated oven to 160℃ switching on only the upper heating element, bake at  middle rack at 160℃ for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 130℃ switching on both upper and lower heating coils, and bake for 30 minutes.

You may have to increase the baking temperature by 10℃ if you are using a normal oven.

Ingredients

All ingredients in room temperature

Using 55g Omega 3&6 eggs

20g unsalted butter/rice bran oil/mild flavour veggie oil

20g rice bran oil/mild flavour vegetable oil

60g top/cake flour 

2g milk powder, optional

30g sweetened orange juice

10g honey

10g mandarin orange rind, chopped finely

3 egg yolks

3 egg whites

1/8 tsp low-sodium salt

20g fine sugar

20g raw sugar/fine sugar

Directions

1. Line an 6" round cake pan with parchment paper at the base. 

2. Wash the mandarin orange with vegetable wash before using it. This is to get rid of any chemical residue on the fruit skin. Remove the white pith before chopping the mandarin orange peel into fine bits.

Combine 10g honey, 30g orange juice, and 10g chopped mandarin orange rind in a small glass. Set aside.

3. Mix top flour, and milk powder in a small bowl. Stir to loosen and mix. Set aside.

4. Warm rice bran oil and butter at low temperature till reaching about 75~85℃.

Pour the top/cake flour mixture from Step 3 into the warm oil, mix briefly using a silicone spatula, and remove from the stove. Continue to fold until it becomes a smooth paste.

5. Mix in the mandarin orange juice mixture from Step 2.

6. Combine in the egg yolks, one at a time, and mix into a smooth batter. Set aside.

7. Beat egg whites in a clean, dry and grease-free bowl, till frothy. Add in low-sodium salt, and first batch of the fine and raw sugar mixture. Continue to beat the egg whites at high speed. Slowly add in the remaining sugar mixture in two batches.

Fresh eggs will give a smooth and glossy meringue, while  the egg whites of the "old" eggs will be more watery, so it's difficult to achieve nice smooth meringue

Stop beating after the meringue has achieved almost stiff peak stage.

Oops ... I've over-beaten the meringue slightly 😓

8. Transfer about 1/4 of the meringue to combine with the yolk batter from Step 6.

Pour back the yolk batter to mix with the remaining meringue into a smooth batter.

9. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan. Bang the cake pan against the work top to level the batter and to get rid of trapped air bubbles.

Place the cake pan into the 20cm square pan, and fill the square pan with about 1cm deep of hot water.

10. Preheated oven to 160℃ switching on only the upper heating element, bake at middle rack at 160℃ for 15  minutes. Reduce temperature to 130℃ switching on both upper and lower heating coils, and bake for 30 minutes.

My Teka oven HLB840 has a temperature surround  feature. You may have to increase the baking temperature by 10℃ if you are using a normal oven.

11. Remove the cake from the oven. Drop the cake with the pan from a height of about 10 cm to a kitchen towel thrice. Let the cake cool down for about 15 to 20 minutes in the pan.

When the cake starts to pull away from the wall of the pan, jiggle to loosen the cake, and turn it out to a cooling rack

You may want to dry the cake in a warm oven for about 15 minutes.

Cut and enjoy 😋😋