White chocolate cupcake with strawberry buttercream

 

 

When weather around is so crazy and chilly, baking is a kind of relief to uplift our mood and also for keeping our kitchen warm and thats what exactly I have been doing these days.The weather is unbelievable here, its officially spring  but its freezing outside and  snowing on and off too, my heaters are struggling to keep my home warm ! So till the weather gets better we are catching up with  our friends which involves  lot of cooking  and also past few days I have been volunteering in my lil one nursery which is kind of keeping me busy and tired by the end of the day , so I dont find enough time to complain about the horrible weather :)

 

Coming to todays post, white chocolate cupcake and strawberry buttercream is a great comination, but always remember to use a good quality white chocolate when making this. Its a soft, fluffy cupcake and perfect with strawberry buttercream !

 

 

 

Recipe source - Lulus sweet secrets

 

Ingredients ( makes 10  medium cupcakes )

 

Flour - 1 cup

Unsalted Butter - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Eggs - 2 large

Baking powder - 1tsp

Milk - 1/4 cup

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

White chocolate - 160 gm

Salt - pinch

 

Method

 

1.Beat eggs and sugar until fluffy and pale yellow for about 5 minutes.

2.In a saucepan warm milk and when its about to boil add white chocolate and turn of the flame.Whisk until chocolate is melted

3.Add the chocolate mixture to egg - sugar mixture and beat.

4.Add vanilla extract and beat too.

5.Add the sifted dry ingredients to wet ingredients and fold in.

6.Melt butter and add a spoonful of the batter to melted butter and mix.

7.Gradually add the melted butter mixture to the rest of batter and fold in .

8.Pour the batter into a cupcake tin lined with cupcake liners and bake them in a preheated oven at 180 C for 20-25 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.

9.Allow the cupcakes to cool completely before you frost them.

 

You can find the recipe for strawberry buttercream here