A few months back, some family friends of ours had gifted us a box of cupcakes. Each one was different in color and decoration and each one of us picked our own favourite little cake. Yes, that is exactly what a cup cake is - your own little favourite cake to enjoy and relish! And that is where I got the inspiration to bake cupcakes :)
Now, I had been looking for a recipe for cupcakes that used buttermilk as an ingredient. Reason being that I get leftover with lot of buttermilk whenever I make ghee at home. So this time when I made some ghee, I began to look for a recipe that used buttermilk as an ingredient. Remembering the different colors and looks of the last cupcakes that I had, I used my imagination to add my own creativity. You can see that there are the choco cupcakes, the red ones, plain vanilla and one with the choco chips too.
The cupcakes as per this recipe turn out moist, soft and crumbly. They are not dry like the ones you generally get in the market.
Those of you who do not want to use buttermilk, please wait for my cupcakes recipe without it, will be posting soon!
So here is the recipe for cupcakes with buttermilk and Happy Baking....
Ingredients:
6 tbsp cooking butter/ unsalted butter
1 cup sugar (powdered in mixie)
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups all purpose flour/ maida
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2/3 cup buttermilk
2 tbsp chocochips
1 tsp red color
2 tsp cocoa powder
*Important - All ingredients should be at room temperature
Method
Mix butter and sugar till soft. Add vanilla and whisk in the eggs. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together in a separate bowl. Add the flour mixture to the butter and egg mixture in 3 batches. Add the buttermilk in 3 batches alternating with the flour.
Now for the colored ones, take a portion of the cake mix in a separate bowl, depending how many of this kind you wish to make. I had baked four, so almost 4-5 tbsp of the mix was enough. Add the red color and mix well. Similarly, add cocoa powder to another portion.
Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees centigrade for 5 mins and line your muffin tray with cupcake liners. Pour the batter in each mould, filling each up to only half. You can add chocochips in a few vanilla cupcakes as well for some more variety.
Bake the cupcakes for 20 mins or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean. The time may vary depending upon your oven. So check before the stated time.
This will make around 16 medium size cupcakes.
Do try out this recipe and don't forget to leave your comments.
