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Monday, 13 January 2014

Orange Butter Cupcakes

I don't bake very well, but I still post about it in my blog for my own record. I have always loved orange butter cake, orange butter cookies, orange chocolates, anything with orange. I bought some very cute paper cupcakes the other day and I am using it for my orange butter cupcakes, what else?  

This recipe is pretty simple and layman. I followed the recipe from here and of course I did not use a round cake tin to bake it but my own cute polka-dot paper cupcakes. You can omit the orange grind and orange juice, and it still makes a perfect fragrant butter cake, yummehh!

Here goes my standard procedure. Wait, standard procedure? Sounds like the rules and steps to follow in the workplace. You may refer the recipe for exact measurement. 

Prepare all the ingredients needed ~ Self rising flour, milk powder, baking powder, butter, eggs, sugar, orange juice and orange grind. It's so simple, oh gawd, anyone can make this. Really, if I can make this, anyone else can.


Beat everything together and pour into the paper cupcakes. Bake in a (pre-heated) oven at 180 degrees.

Confession: I did not use a mixer. I just whisk everything in a bowl using my hand. If I had used a mixer, I believe the texture will be more light and fluffy.


Halfway through baking, sprinkle some colored rice on top of the cupcakes. You may omit this if you are a health freak and is concerned on the coloring and all. 


Continue baking for about 20 minutes or insert a toothpick and it comes out clean.


My cupcakes are not pretty I know (but thanks to the coloured rice, it makes the cupcakes look cuter). They don't rise and "crack a bit" in the middle like some most cupcakes/muffins always look like. 

No extra points given if you can guess who is the first person to try it. No, not the hubs. It's my fussy eater, Kenzie boy. He ate half of the cupcake, considered not bad already. 


I made 10 cupcakes, brought 5 to work the next day to let a couple of close colleagues to try and they were finished in a jiffy! That made my day!
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23 comments:

  1. Twilight Man13 January 2014 at 09:26

    Your cup cakes looked like a success~!! You can sell in a shop and resign from your present job!

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    1. Princess Ribbon13 January 2014 at 10:47

      Wah, this comment, being the first, really made my day!
      It looked like a success, but taste wise, so-so only, not fluffy enuff, coz I didn't use the mixer.
      Wah, if resign and open shop sell these, I think can "chap lap" very soon, kekekeke..

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  2. Twilight Man13 January 2014 at 09:31

    The profits from Cup Cakes are so high when we all know the cost is so low. Those shops are making lots of money until everyone has started baking. I used to bake cup cakes of all flavours with fillings every week when I was a student in US. I shared apartment with a Malaysian, Japanese, Korean and had American neighbours too. I would pack the cup cakes in paper bags with their names and left it on Kitchen table for them to bring to universities on Monday morning. They loved my cup cakes but they call it Muffins in USA whether big or small sized. I dunno if I can bake again that again. Too malas and need to find guinea pigs to eat them.

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    1. Princess Ribbon13 January 2014 at 10:49

      Whoa, ngor yau mou duk chor? (read wrong).. TM bakes? Biar betul !!

      You don't look like someone who bakes.. Don't ask why, tak tau explain.. Based on feeling only..

      Wah, you so sweet ga? Bake for your mates, tag their names in a lunch bag and let them bring to the uni? Wah, like bf preparing a surprise cupcake for gf leh..

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    2. Princess Ribbon13 January 2014 at 10:50

      I am very looking forward to see you bake (anything), and post it in your blog.. I am sure it will be an interesting post, and your comments will reach more than 100 that day !!

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    3. Twilight Man13 January 2014 at 11:59

      Sk and Simple Persons ate my Red Velvet Cup Cakes before!!!!!!!!!

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    4. Princess Ribbon13 January 2014 at 12:16

      OMG, you know how to make red-velvet cake? Mm kan dan wor..
      Then I think you should post a topic on this, let me see.. Pweaseeeeee...

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  3. Twilight Man13 January 2014 at 09:35

    If I bake them in big numbers, I should consider to donate to old folks home or orphanages as charity. Why don't you do that too?

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    1. Princess Ribbon13 January 2014 at 10:51

      Hmm, good idea, but I don't bake in large numbers.. Usually, when I see something I like from "Mr. G", I will keep dividing the measurement until it reaches the measurement for 1 or 2 persons.. Like if that recipe uses a whole block of 250g butter and 4 eggs, I will divide until it reaches 1 egg and 62.5g butter..

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  4. [SK]13 January 2014 at 10:29

    you don't bake well, but at least you are hell lot better than me lah, cos i don't even know how to bake, and never have done so also!! muahahaha.. so this time round cannot "one pot cook all" lah, have to follow the steps and also sequence woh..

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    1. [SK]13 January 2014 at 10:33

      yeah, i like the scent of oranges too.. orange is a good ingredients in baking, and also goes well with chocolates too!! so you bake everything orange?? haha.. your orange butter cupcake looks good mah, no crack on the top somemore, so "sai leh" you can keep them so "perfect"!!! huahahahahaha~~ :D

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    2. [SK]13 January 2014 at 10:35

      don't sell your cupcakes lah, should get them frozen immediately and then courier to your readers here!! that would be a very sweet and warm gifts for us lah.. imagine when we receive the courier, open up the box and found a couple of cupcakes with very fragrant and zesty orange smell.. wah, so "hung fook" lor~~

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    3. [SK]13 January 2014 at 10:36

      so what does that eating-only-half mean?? Kenzie boy the fussy eater also eat half, meaning your cupcakes were successful or not successful?? hahahaha.. but then your colleagues finished them within seconds, that means good lah.. okaylah, like that i allow you to courier them to me the next time you bake~~ :D

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    4. Princess Ribbon13 January 2014 at 10:58

      You like the scent of oranges too? Wah, then we memang ngam-key.. I like the scent of oranges and lemons.. When you cut them into half, wah, that citrus smell !! Tell you 1 tip (you might already know).. After you squeezed the juices from those lemons (or oranges), don't throw them first.. Keep it to scrub your sink or plates, they smell heavenly !!

      Errr, I thought most cupcakes (or muffins) crack a bit in the middle, and it is "supposed" to look like that, no? You know, when you go buy blueberry muffins, in the middle, they crack a bit, yes? Then the blueberry filling kinda flow out a bit, then sekali pandang and you know it's blueberry filling inside..

      Wah, courier to readers? Kam tai tak hei ngor ahh? Ok, the next time, if my cakes turn out better than this time, then I consider lah your suggestion, keke.. Not nice also you must telan all I tell you..

      Eating half from him means very good liao lor.. He's a picky and fussy eater rite.. So if he eats half better than no eat lor, kan?

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  5. Small Kucing13 January 2014 at 10:33

    first of all...where is my share!!! I go take from your office okay...

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    1. Small Kucing13 January 2014 at 10:35

      The trouble of me baking these are hubs dont eat. me eat alnoe with J no fun...so i bodek eat from you la :p can hor :p

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    2. Princess Ribbon13 January 2014 at 11:03

      Eh, your hubs same as mine.. To be honest, I bake coz I wana use up my flour and etc in the fridge.. Hubs doesn't really eat cakes or cookies.. After I bake hor, he only eats a bite or a piece.. Potong stim really...

      Same as you, if me alone eat pulak no fun.. Kenzie boy too young (and fussy) to even eat 1 or 2 by himself.. Then that day, I said give some to neighbours.. Hubby said if eat sendiri ok lagi, if give people, belum cukup standard wor !! Hmmph, he said like that, I want cucuk his eyes liao !!

      So end up, last last, pack to work to give guinea pigs.. Most of the time, they will support and finish all :)

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    3. Small Kucing14 January 2014 at 15:58

      Lol....mmg mau kena piak la him.pour cold water like that. Mwu try baru will improve ma. Yiurvcolig got hau fook la. Eh..next time bake banana cake. Go yee ling blog. Last Saturday I tried her recipe. Very nice and moist. Sedap

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    4. Princess Ribbon15 January 2014 at 09:40

      Meow, I hopped to her blog thru SK, then Angeline, then only I found her blog.
      Where is the banana cake recipe? I tengok tarak..

      You tried making it last Saturday rite? Am sure you will post in your blog, yes mou? Abo you post in your blog can ahh? I jot down the recipe from your blog when I see it.

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  6. Rose world13 January 2014 at 10:52

    Muat be nice then when your colleagues finished them up.

    I love orange cake too. Not much of cupcakes and cookies though.

    Start baking for cny yet?

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    1. Princess Ribbon13 January 2014 at 11:05

      Ooohh, I don't bake for CNY ler.. I usually buy.. My standard not up to that level yet, hehe.. Usually I just bake for fun lor (and to use up the stuff which is already too long, like flour, etc)..
      Must-have for CNY = pineapple tarts.. I buy them of coz :)

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  7. PH21 January 2014 at 14:13

    Louiz, your cupcakes look good! Orange butter cake is a yummy flavor. My cupcakes are never smooth and always cracks. I wonder why but it doesn't really matter right? Just wallop and who cares about the cracks :)

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    1. Princess Ribbon22 January 2014 at 07:05

      Hehe, cupcakes looked good coz of the colourful confetti (psst, that's my secret la, hehe)
      Eh, I thought cupcakes/muffins are SUPPOSED to have a crack in the middle? Then only look nice rite?

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