How do you make cupcakes?
Cupcakes are small, delicious cakes that get their special kick from the frosty, a delicious cream that you put on top of the cake after it has cooled down. If you want to know how to make these great little cakes yourself, all you need is a suitable recipe idea and a little patience.
Cupcakes are small cake, similar to muffins, with a topping made from a cream that is usually made from cream cheese, butter and sugar. Of course, this basic recipe can be combined with flavors, syrup or change the fruits as you like, but the procedure is always the same and makes baking a wide variety of cupcakes very easy.
This is how you make the batter for the cupcakes
- Beat the butter with the sugar until very frothy. Mix the flour with the baking powder.
- Now stir about 2 tablespoons of flour into the butter and sugar mixture, then add an egg and mix everything very well.
- Now add 2 tablespoons of flour again and fold in the second egg. Finally, stir in the rest of the flour.
- Now fill 1-2 tbsp dough in muffin cases or cupcake tins and bake them at 170 ° C for about 20 minutes. The finished cakes must cool down well.
What makes an ordinary little muffin a cupcake? The frosting! There is …
In the meantime, you can make the cream.
How does the frosting work? - Recipe
- For the frosting, also called icing, first mix the softened butter with the sugar to a creamy mass.
- Now add the cream cheese, stirring constantly, and stir in well. A little patience is required here, because if you add the cheese too quickly, the whole thing may curdle.
- Put the finished cream in the cold until the cupcakes have cooled completely.
- Now fill the cream in a piping bag and distribute it decoratively on the cakes.
- Until Serve the cupcakes must now be refrigerated. Complete!
This basic recipe is of course not for the figure-conscious, but the small cakes taste very delicious. There are now numerous recipe ideas for frostings that are a little slimmer. Feel free to try out different frostings and decide according to your own personal taste. Bon Appetit!
