miercuri, 26 ianuarie 2011

Tips on How to Come Up with a Delicious Cupcake

By Anya Shiela Richards


Those people who are fond of eating cupcakes can surely attest that its creamy topping can make or break the overall taste of the cupcake. Coming up with a perfect cupcake is not an easy task, and should be taken seriously. Of course, you would not want to come up with something dry, nor something that has a very sweet frosting that could even make your tooth ache!

The most important tip into coming up with a very delicious cupcake is to make sure that the flavors of the cupcake must complement each other, and not masks each other out. Here are more tips to help you with baking a really delicious cupcake treat that will leave both kids and adults into craving for more.

First off, look for the freshest ingredients available. Just like the famous Betty Crocker, she would never use a box of mix to bake her cupcakes. There are so many delicious cup cake recipes available online now, and there's also your grandmother's recipe book. You may adjust the measurement of each ingredient in order to suit your taste. Try substituting a vanilla extract with vanilla seeds, or use a lemon zest coming from a fresh lemon instead of using a bottled lemon juice.

Using a real butter will make a big distinction on the taste of the cupcake. This also allows you to use less sugar when baking. Using margarine or some other low fat alternatives is not really a good option as this will only sacrifice the overall taste of your cupcake. You may compensate it with sugar, but this will only defeat your purpose of cutting out the calories on your recipe. So if you are trying to cut the calorie content in your recipe, try to experiment with other alternatives, such as using applesauce instead of the regular oil.

Chocolate is considered to be the most popular flavor of cupcakes. A good idea into coming up with a really delicious chocolate cupcake is to use real melted chocolate on your cupcake recipes. Using a melted chocolate will make your cupcakes bittersweet, but such molten texture is actually the most coveted among connoisseurs of confection sweets.

You have to make sure that the frosting will not induce a sugar coma. There are several ways into coming up with a very delicious and not to sweet frosting. One is to add just a little amount of cream cheese to the frosting mix. This will help in reducing the sugar while coming up with a proper consistency for the frosting. Cutting back on the amount of sugar you use will decrease your chance of having a gritty texture.

Some things to remember are the choices of flour for your cupcakes. The kind of flour you use will have great effects on the density of the cupcake. Try to come up with your own flour, because sometimes, coming up with your own ingredients will make it even more flavorful. You should pay utmost attention to the cupcakes you're baking. Those tins that are classic aluminized are said to bring out the best flavor in your cupcake. However, silicone-made tins are a better choice, since it prevents the cupcake from sticking to the tin. And whatever ingredients or recipes you use, always remember to enjoy the experience of baking, because the more effort you exert on it, the more delicious it will become.




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