Pumpkin cupcake

To prepare this simple, tasty and aromatic cake, we will need the following ingredients: pumpkin puree, wheat flour (I use the highest grade), granulated sugar and vanilla sugar, refined vegetable (I took sunflower) oil, medium-sized chicken eggs (45-50 grams each), dramator of the test (here you find the recipe here. home), orange zest and salt (for the balance of taste). In addition, I propose to use spices (in a hammer), which will make ready -made baking unusually aromatic — cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. Do not like spices or some separate? Then just do not add them! All products for the preparation of pumpkin cake should be at room temperature.

Immediately turn on the oven at 180 degrees, since the cupcop dough is done quickly. We sift 270 grams of high -grade wheat flour in a separate bowl, add spices (1 teaspoon of cinnamon, as well as in half a teaspoon of cardamom and ginger), a quarter of a teaspoon of salt (preferably fine grinding) and a baking powder of dough.

Mix everything thoroughly with a spoon, a fork or a whisk, so that the dry components are evenly dispersed through the bulk mixture.

Half years have been done: let's take a liquid half of the future dough for pumpkin cupcake. We pour 200 grams of sugar into another dish, add a tablespoon of vanilla sugar (I make it at home from simple sugar and empty vanilla pods) and a tablespoon of an orange zest chopped on a fine grater.

We rub two types of sugar with zest so that the essential oils of the latter are easier and faster to free (that is, we get more aroma). You can do this with a spoon, a fork, a whisk or a mixer in general — it does not matter.

Next, add a pair of chicken eggs and beat everything with a mixer at high speed for about 5-7 minutes (or until the mass turns white and sugar will dissolve).

Pour 100 milliliters of any vegetable oil without smell into whipped sweet eggs and add 250 grams of thick pumpkin puree. Almost always for baking and desserts, I cook puree from pumpkin using baking in the oven and its subsequent grinding with a submersible blender. You can see a detailed recipe here. The amount of flour used in the recipe depends on the density of pumpkin puree, so it is important to consider this moment.

Beat everything again with a mixer for about a minute to get a homogeneous mass (oil and pumpkin are mixed with sweet egg mass). Pour a dry flour mixture from step 3 (you can not in 1, but in 2-3 doses) and intervene it in a liquid base.

If you want, mix everything manually, but you can also with the help of a mixer — at low speed until the dry components are completely interfering. It is important for a long time not to interfere with the cupcake dough, otherwise baking can rise poorly, while it turns out to be cool or dense. By consistency, the dough for pumpkin muffins resembles fatty sour cream. It will be quite thick: not fluid, it holds the form well, while quite tender.

The baking dish (my rectangular dimensions: 24×1 cm — at the top, 21×8 cm — at the bottom, height — 6.5 cm), lubricate with a small amount of vegetable oil (bottom and walls) and spread the dough for pumpkin cake into it, yielding it with a spoon or spatula. By the way, it is not at all necessary to use this form — round, square, oval or even portioned molds for cupcakes is perfect.

We put the shape in a preheated oven and bake pumpkin cupcake for about an hour at 180 degrees at an average level (I have a gas stove, lower heating). We check the readiness with a wooden skewer or toothpick — it comes out of the dough dry, so the pastries are ready. Baking time can differ significantly from the specified — mine was ready after 1 hour 10 minutes!

Let us stand the finished muffin in the form of 10 minutes, then we take it out and completely cool it at room temperature.

If you wish, you can sprinkle the finished cupcake with powdered sugar or pour chocolate icing, decorating with almond petals or other nuts. And you can not decorate anything at all — a pumpkin cupcake is good on its own.

A light spicy aroma, delicate crumb, saturated, moderately sweet taste … This cupcake is simply created for a cozy autumn tea party with the family. Prepare for health, friends, and pleasant to you appetite!