Orange cup cake with Orange cream frosting

 

Last week my niece was in town so, decided to make these orange cupcakes. Instead of baking a “typical” cup cake, thought of enhancing the cake by adding orange flavor to the cake as well to its frosting. 

The Orange cup cake turned out pretty good in terms of taste, soft and moist texture with mild flavor. This cake can be extended as a full size cake with fully coated frosting and topped with loads of orange pulp (juice vesicles) as an Orange fruit cake. 

Ingredients for the cake    –      1 cup of all purpose flour and remove 2 tbsp of flour   ;  2 tbsp of corn flour      ;    1 egg     ;    1/2 cup of sugar    ;      1/8 cup of milk     ;   ½ tsp of baking powder     ;       1/4 cup of orange juice & zest of orange    ;     60 gms of butter melted      ;      salt a pinch 

Ingredients for the Frosting     –     1 cup of heavy cream       ;       1 tsp of icing sugar          ;     orange zest     ;    ¼ cup of orange juice      ;    ½ tbsp of corn syrup   ;     ½ tsp of gelatin powder 

Procedure for Cupcakes: whisk together flour, corn flour, salt and baking powder set aside.   Mix milk, orange juice and melted butter keep aside.

In a medium bowl, beat egg and sugar till the sugar completely dissolve. Add flour mixture to the egg-sugar mixture and continue to beat. Keep adding the Milk-juice-butter mixture little by little and beat well until all combine to get a batter consistency.

Scope the batter into muffin tray (prepared with paper liners) Bake for 15-20 minutes in the 180 °c Preheat oven. Allow to cool to room temperature. 

For frosting, in a small bowl mix gelatin powder and water, keep aside. In saucepan heat the orange juice, corn syrup. Add the gelatin mixture into it and mix well. Continue on the low flame, until it become thick. Remove the pan from heat and allow it to cool.

Beat the heavy cream with icing sugar and orange zest until it forms soft peak. Add gelatin-juice mixture and continue to beat again till it become light and fluffy.

Using the piping bag frost the cupcake. (Make sure cupcakes are completely cooled before piping the frosting)  

No Bake Tofu-Cheese Cake

Yes, this Tofu-Cheese Cake is made without use of Oven.  It’s ideal to serve as a Dessert.

This recipe was shared by my friend Mrs. Shuwaina AL-Harrasi. But, considering a high fat content cream cheese, I go with 50-50 of low fat cheese and Tofu to reduce the net fat content of the cake.

Mrs. Shuwaina AL-Harrasi, not only shared the recipe  also, gifted me the cheese cake pan. She is an expert in pastries and capable to do in “LARGE” quantity. I asked her for a guest posting here, specially an authentic Omani cuisine. Finally, I am glad to dedicate this post to her.

   The Tofu-Cheese is placed on the base, which is made up of a crushed chocolate cookie, either from store shelf or home made. Here, I go with homemade one. You may pick one of these…..Avocado  Cookies or Ragi Cookies

 Ingredients’ for the base :  20 no’s of  chocolate cookies   ;    2 tbsp of  Butter (melted)

 Ingredients’ for the Tofu-Cheese Cake :   395 gms (1 tin)  Condenses milk    ;      150 gms of   Cream cheese low fat (Philadelphia )      ;        ¾ Cup of Whipped cream     ;      150 gms of Tofu (soft)       ;       ¼ cup of Hot water      ;       1 tbsp of  Gelatin.

Base preparation procedure:  In food processor crush the biscuits until mixture resembles like breadcrumbs. Add melted butter and process until it combined. 

Fill the mixture in to the cheese cake pan half filled by pressing firmly. Refrigerate for 30 – 45 minutes.

Now the Cake preparation: For cake, sprinkle gelatin over boiling water. Whisk with a fork until it dissolve.  Set aside to cool for 15 minutes.

Using an electric mixer, beat cream cheese, condenses milk, tofu and vanilla extract until smooth. Gradually add gelatin mixture and beat until combined. Add the whipped cream and fold well. 

Pour mixture on the biscuit base prepared earlier. Smooth the top with a spatula. Cover with cling wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Remove cheesecake from pan and serve  chill.