Orange Cupcakes

I've made the easiest and most delicious orange cupcake with fresh orange juice and zest gives these yummy orange cupcakes a lovely aromatic orange zing. Orange is totally one of those flavors that gets overlooked, and my easy recipe will be your basic recipe for now and ever of making the most moist and fluffy orange cupcakes. I prefer a simple cupcake without frosting with a quick and simple decoration, but if you wish make yours. This recipe is so flexible you can make it with hand mixer or with a blender, just mix all the ingredients together and you'll have a lovely orange cupcakes.

Orange Cupcakes

Prep time: 5 minutes

Baking time: 25 minutes

Yield: 15 cupcakes

Ingredients:

2 eggs

1/2 cup sugar

1 and 3/4 cups all purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

pinch of salt

1/2 cup orange juice

1 tablespoon orange zest

1/2 cup vegetable oil

For decoration:

Confectioners sugar

1/2 teaspoon orange zest

The way:

- Prepare your cupcakes mold with muffin liners, and preheat oven at 180° C.

- In a large bowl mix egss with sugar with hand mixer or a blender until sugar dissolves, add orange juice and vegetable oil. Give batter a quick mix to combine.

- Sift flour with baking powder.

- Add sifted flour to the egg mixture into two phases, the half amount and mix then the remain half amount, until all well combined and have a smooth cupcakes batter.
- With an ice cream spoon fill the prepared cupcakes liners with cupcakes batter.

- Bake at 180°C for 25 minutes.

- Decorate with confectioners sugar and orange zest.

Enjoy!