royal little cupcakes.........

ALHUMDULILLAH, this week i had the chance to try out royal icing at home. i glazed the icing on to small sized cupcakes. i will recommend a little vanilla essence powder about one tsp if you are using raw eggs in the icing.  

Result:

simple and quick cake recipe

Ingredients:
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence powder
1 cup oil (vegetable/sunflower)
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1 1/2 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp white vinegar
food coloring (desirable/optional)

Method:
Grease the baking pans. Preheat oven. Combine the buttermilk, salt and vanilla powder. In another bowl, mix together the oil and sugar till light and creamy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, combine the buttermilk mixture alternately with the flour. Add baking powder and vinegar into the batter. Pour batter into the greased pans. Bake in the oven for 25-30 mins, check with an edge of a knife or toothpick by inserting it into the center of the cake and see if it comes out clean. Remove from oven and let it cool before icing. Use buttercream icing or any of your preferred ones. Refrigerate till ready to serve.
Note: you can even make it into a rainbow cake by dividing the batter of the cake into equal portions and getting creative by mixing different colors individually. Then pour one over the other batter into the baking pans alternately.

Cake with a twist !!!!!!!

I love baking cakes, not all of them just the ones which are fun and easy, lol. Here is one of them which is two-tiered velvet cake minus the cocoa and coated with butter cream icing.
MASHALLAH it tasted really good!!!!!!!

there's a problem with the lighting in this pic, had to take this snap keeping it in the fridge.