To be able to always surprise guests and loved ones with delicious pastries, without spending hours preparing it, just figure out how to make a cupcake. This is a delicious dessert with which you can experiment a lot.
Understanding how to make a homemade muffin is not at all difficult: you need to learn a few tricks and choose a proven recipe.
Cooking Tips
The recipes for this dessert will cease to seem difficult to you if you remember a few tips. First, do not spare products. In baking, use good eggs, sugar and butter, as well as a variety of dried fruits and nuts, only this will turn out really tasty. The second - before you make a cupcake, it is not necessary to acquire special dishes. Dessert can be baked in cookie molds, muffins can simply be fashioned by hand, decorated with nuts or icing. In a word, complete freedom for imagination. The third rule is not to decorate muffins with mastic or other sweet decorations, as they will distract attention from the great taste of the baked goods. Fourth, never take cupcakes out of shape if they have not cooled down! The fifth rule is that before making a cupcake, do not knead the dough for too long. Try to maintain the foamy structure of proteins by adding them only after flour is added.
Sixth - bake dessert at maximum temperature. Small cupcakes will be ready in a quarter of an hour, but large cupcakes will reach the readiness hour. Finally, check the dough for readiness. If the crust is already rosy and the cupcake is still raw inside, cover it with baking paper. So you will not burn anything.
How to make a quick cupcake?
To overcome the fear of baking, start with a simplified recipe. Understand how to make a cupcake in five minutes. You will need four tablespoons of flour, the same amount of sugar and half as much cocoa, a chicken egg, three tablespoons of milk and the same amount of butter, as well as a regular mug. It must be ceramic in order to use it in the microwave without concern. Combine flour, cocoa, and sugar with an egg, melted butter, and milk. Set the microwave to maximum power and bake the cupcake directly in the cup for three minutes.
In the process, the dough will increase in size. It's okay - soon it will go down. You can decorate the finished cupcake with icing sugar or coconut flakes.
How to make a cupcake with lemon?
This recipe will already be more complicated. Take three cups of wheat flour, three hundred grams of butter, a couple of cups of granulated sugar, five yolks, four protein, half a glass of chopped walnuts, half a teaspoon of soda, lemon zest. For glaze you will need one protein, two hundred grams of icing sugar, lemon juice. Pound a glass of sugar with butter, whisk another with yolks. Mix everything, add nuts, soda, zest, add flour and whipped whites in the foam. Mix thoroughly and put in a baking dish, previously sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Bake for sixty minutes at one hundred and eighty degrees. For glaze, mix whipped protein and powder, pour in a little lemon juice. Cover the chilled cake with the mixture and let it dry a little, then serve it to the table.