Ube Cupcakes - Maricels Recipes
Ube Cupcakes - Maricels Recipes
Ube Cupcakes - Maricels Recipes
This Ube Cupcake recipe is moist and fluffy. Made of purple yam jam or ube
halaya, coconut milk, vegetable oil, eggs, sugar and cake flour. With
stabilized whipped cream frosting, then topped with coconut string or
macapuno and ube cake crumbs.
Equipment
1 12-cup muffin pan
1 electric mixer
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
1 ¼ cup cake flour spoon and level
1 ¼ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
Wet Ingredients
⅔ cup coconut milk
⅓ cup vegetable oil
¼ cup ube jam
2 ½ tsp ube flavour
Egg mixture
2 eggs large, at room temperature
⅔ cup granulated sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven at 325°F
2. Prepare the dry ingredients. Weigh the cake flour or spoon in a measuring cup and level it off
with a spatula. Add the baking powder and salt. Mix until blended.
3. Prepare the wet ingredients.Anco
In a liquid
Turf measuring cup, add and measure the coconut milk,
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vegetable oil, ube jam and ube flavour. Mix until well blended.
4. For the egg mixture. In a medium-sized bowl, beat the eggs using an electric mixer and
gradually add sugar. Beat until pale in colour.
5. Sift the dry ingredients over the egg mixture. Add the dry and wet ingredients alternately in
four additions to avoid over mixing the cake batter. Mix just until blended.
6. Line the 12-muffin pan with muffin paper liner. Use an ice cream scoop or ¼ cup measuring
cup to scoop and portion evenly.
7. Baking the ube cupcakes. Bake in preheated oven to 325°F for about 18 to 20 minutes or
until the toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let it cool in the muffin pan for 10 minutes.
Then cool completely on a cooling rack.
8. While the ube cupcakes are cooling, make the stabilized whipped cream frosting.
Notes
Overmixing the cake batter will make the cake denser.
This recipe makes 12 cupcakes, to make cake crumbs, use one cupcake and place in a food
processor. You can also scoop half a teaspoon or trim the top of each cupcake, if desired to make
cake crumbs.
Storing the Ube Cupcakes- Best to serve chilled and keep refrigerated with the frosting. Store in
the refrigerator for up 3 days in a sealed container. The cupcakes without the frosting can store at
room temperature for up to 2 days. It freezes well and maintain best quality for 2 to 3 months in a
sealed container with or without frosting.
Nutrition
Calories: 227kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated
Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 52mg | Sodium: 121mg | Potassium:
131mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 361IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 71mg | Iron: 1mg