Assortment of Cup Cakes

There are a number of recipes for making cup cakes/muffins. Some of them use butter,some oil and some are egg less too.Here the recipe which is given has eggs and is made with butter.When the basic cake batter is made, ou can make an assortment of cakes like fruit muffins,chocolate muffins or banana muffins.If it is your kid's birthday party,you can put the initials of each child you have invited on the cupcakes with icing or jelly and it becomes fun when they choose their muffins with their respective initials. This recipe makes about forty eight small cup cakes. Try it!

Ingredients	Quantity
Plain Flour	4 ½ cups
Sugar	3 cups
Butter	12 tbps
Eggs	8 medium
Baking Powder	2 tsps
Salt	a pinch
Vanilla Essence	1 tsp

Note: To make chocolate cake, use half a cup of semisweet chocochips melted with a little milk in the microwave and a teaspoon of instant coffee powder.Cocoa powder can also be used.
To make fruit cake you can use differnt coloured candied friuts chopped into small pieces.Tutti fruiti can be used
To make banana cake, use mashed ripe banana and mix it in the batter jut before baking.

Method

1. Preheat the oven to about 250 degrees Centigrade.Sieve the flour with baking powder and salt atleast three times.


2. Take butter in a large vessel and beat it with a hand grinder or a wooden spoon till it is light and stands in peaks.


3. Add the sugar which is powdered and mix it with the butter till it is light.


4. Add the eggs one by one to the butter sugar mixture and vanilla essence and mix them lightly.


5. Add the flour mixture and mix very lightly so that the batter is mixed well.


6. Divide this batter into three portions.


7. In the first portion, add the fruit pieces to make the fruit cup cakes.In the second portion add the choclate mixture to make chocolate cakes. To the third portion add the mashed banana and mix to make banana cupcakes.


8. Take a muffin tray, and place the paper cups and add the required batter and bake it in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.Check it if it is done by placing a sharp knife or butter knife into the cake and when taken out it should come out clean.The top of the cup cakes will also become slightly brown in colour.


9. Serve them on a plate.These can be had with tea or coffee too.

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Ice Cream Cake - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Ice Cream (Any Flavour)	1 small cup
Cake Piece or Muffin	1
Milk Chocolate	1

Method

1. Take a piece of cake in a small serving bowl.


2. Add the ice cream from the cup and spread it over the cake.


3. Make small pieces of the chocolate and sprinkle over the ice cream.


4. Serve it cold.

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Orange Cake

Cake made with orange juice and orange rind will ethrall the children because of its colour and flavour.It is different from the regular cake recipe.

Ingredients	Quantity
Plain Flour (Maida)	1 cup
Butter	3 tbsps
Powdered Sugar	¾ cup
Eggs	2
Vanilla Essence	½ tsp
Baking Powder	½ tsp
Fresh Orange Juice	3 tbsps
Orange Rinds (Orange Zest)	1 tsp
Orange Essence (Optional)	½ tsp
Orange Colour	a few drops
Salt	a pinch
Orange Marmalade	2 tbsps
Water	1 tbsp
Whipped Cream	½ cup
Orange Slivers (For Decoration)	4

Method

1. Beat the butter in a bowl with a wooden spoon or an electric beater till the butter is light and stands out in peaks.


2. Add the sugar and beat them together till light.


3. Add the eggs one by one along with vanilla essence and mix lightly.


4. Then add the flour sifted with baking powder and salt to it and mix gently.


5. Then add the orange juice, orange colour, rind and orange essence and mix it.


6. Pour this mixture into a greased and floured pan and bake in a preheated oven for fortyfive minutes at 200 degrees centigrade.


7. Cool the cake and decorate it with whipped cream and orange marmalade which was mixed with water.Decorate the cake wih orange slivers too and serve.

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