Easy Orange Cupcakes Recipe

Add a tangy and fruity twist to your standard cupcakes with these rich, orange flavoured mini cupcakes!

The ingredients below will make for 9-12 cupcakes, depending on size.

How to make Orange cupcakes:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees/350F/gas 4 and place mini cupcake cases in on a baking tray
2. Mix the softened butter and caster sugar together until light and creamy in texture
3. Beat in eggs a little at a time, then add vanilla
4. Fold in flour a little at a time
5. Add a few drops of milk if mixture is too thick
6. Bake in oven for about 15-20 minutes, check if cooked by lightly touching the top and if it springs back it’s done
7. Leave to cool on a cooling rack, you can make the icing whilst waiting
8. Combine softened butter with icing sugar and mix well with a spoon or electric whisk
9. Mix in the zest of one orange and a spoonful of juice at a time, don’t make the icing too runny
10. Add a small amount of zest from the second orange on top for decoration