In celebration of holidays and sunshine, I’m sharing a really fresh, summery cupcake recipe today. If you like Turkish Delight, you’re going to love these. Rose and pistachio is a really common pairing in eastern desserts, like Baklava, so let’s bring on the sunshine!
Makes: 8 cupcakes
Prep time: 10-15 mins
Baking time: 20-25 mins
Ingredients
Rose cupcake mixture
120g flour
140g caster sugar
40g softened butter
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
120ml milk
1 egg
1 tsp rosewater
Rose Cream Cheese Icing
100g cream cheese (half a packet)
35g softened butter
200g sifted icing sugar
1 tsp rosewater
Method
- Preheat oven to 170’C
- Soften butter in a large mixing bowl and add the sugar, flour and baking powder mixing until you get a sandy consistency. You can do this by hand, with a mixer or an electric whisk for ease.
- Combine the milk and rosewater in a measuring jug and pour roughly half into your dry mixture. Beat until just incorporated.
- Whisk the egg into the remaining milk and add it to your bowl. Beat until just incorporated again, being careful not to over mix.
- Spoon the mixture into cupcake cases about 2/3 full, you can use a piping bag for this to keep things neat and tidy, and pop them in the oven for 20 minutes, or until just golden.
- While the cupcakes are baking you can start to prepare the icing. I don’t know about you but I’m not a fan of super-sweet icing, so I chose a cream cheese icing for these, but if your heart lies with buttercream, go for it!
- Drain the liquid from the cream cheese and place into a clean bowl.
- Beat this together with the butter until just blended.
- Sift in the sugar half at a time, be really careful not to over mix again or the butter and cheese might curdle into a soggy mess. Stop as soon as everything looks mixed in.
Pop the icing in the fridge while the cupcakes cool completely on a wire rack, and then decorate to your hearts content. Whizz up, or roughly chop, some peeled pistachios to give a colourful textured crumb. How perfect would these be for a fancy picnic in the park? You can buy rosewater in any big supermarket, have a look in the baking aisle, or the world food aisle if they have one.
