Orange Dreamsicle Cupcakes from: Buttercream Bump Off
An orange cupcake topped with vanilla buttercream and garnished with a candiedorange peel.
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs, separated and whites beaten until stiff
- 1 Tbsp orange zest
- 1 tsp orange extract
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup orange juice
- candied orange peels (for garnish)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine butter, sugar, egg yolks, zest, and orange extract in a large mixing bowl.
- Cream these ingredients together thoroughly.
- Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together in a separate mixingbowl.
- Add dry ingredients to creamed ingredients a third at a time alternately with the orange juice.
- Fold in the beaten egg whites.
- Spoon batter into cupcake liners until half full.