Cupcakes: recipe with photos step by step at home

People first started talking about cupcakes in 1976, when one of the American cookbooks by Amelia Simmons offered a recipe for baking cupcakes in small cups. Today, such a dessert is prepared not only in ceramic cups, but also in a variety of molds.

There are two types of baked goods: American and English cupcakes, the latter are distinguished by their smaller sizes, and also by the fact that the products are not covered with icing or any cream. At home, preparing this dessert step by step is quite simple, and you can choose any recipe with a photo of baking, with or without filling, and also use any cream for decoration.

Cupcakes with berry curd and cheese cream

Many people think that cupcakes are muffins, but in fact there is a difference and it lies in the creamy cap. For the classic cupcake recipe, butter or protein-butter cream is used, but in this version, curd cheese cream will be prepared, which is ideal for creating neat and beautiful hats.

Ingredients for the dough:

180 g butter;
180 g granulated sugar;
2 eggs;
180 g flour;
2 tsp. baking powder;
1 tsp. vanilla sugar;
5 tbsp. l. milk.

For Kurd:

100 g berries;
100 g granulated sugar;
2 eggs;
1 tbsp. l. butter.

For cream cheese:

200 g curd cheese;
100 g butter;
50 g powdered sugar.

Preparation:

Place soft butter in a mixer bowl and add sugar, start beating at low speed, and then at high speed until you get a fluffy mass.

Beat the eggs into the resulting butter mixture one at a time and stir each time, then add the flour and baking powder and mix well with a spatula.

Now we pour in the milk drink, this is necessary so that the cupcakes do not come out dry, but on the contrary, airy and soft. Instead of milk, you can take cream or kefir.

Mix everything again with a mixer and get a soft dough, which we put into molds. Don’t forget that the dough will rise, so fill the molds 2/3 full.

Place the cupcakes in the oven for 20 minutes, temperature 180 °
C.

Cooking Kurd. For those who do not know what it is, let us explain that it is a dessert cream that can be served as an independent dessert, as a sauce, or used as a filling for various baked goods, including cupcakes.

So, take any berries, fresh or frozen, puree them with a blender and put the resulting puree in a saucepan along with sugar and eggs.
Place the berries on the fire, stir the mixture continuously so that it does not curdle, and as soon as the first bubbles appear on the surface, remove the saucepan from the heat.
Add the oil and stir everything well.

Now let's move on to the curd cream, everything is simple here, take the creamy product, soft butter and sweet powder, put everything in a blender bowl and beat, put the finished cream in a cool place.

Once the cupcakes are ready, take a small knife and make a hole in the middle, which we fill with berry cream.

Next, put the cream cheese in a pastry bag, choose a rose or star nozzle and decorate the cupcakes with flowers.

Advice!
Before decorating cupcakes with cream, you need to take it out of the cold in advance, since when it’s cold it’s hard to put out and you won’t be able to make beautiful flowers from it; the edges will turn out torn.

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Cooking with kefir

If you include kefir in the list of products, the cupcakes will turn out the way they like them in England, especially fluffy and soft.

What do you need for baking?

Natural cow butter (soft) – 100 g;
granulated sugar – 0.75 cups;
eggs – 2 pieces;
kefir – at least ½ cup;
flour - one and a half glasses;
chocolate (black is more suitable) – 50 g;
cocoa powder - 3 tablespoons is enough;
soda – ½ teaspoon;
salt - a pinch.

Beat butter with sugar. We spare our hands and use a mixer.

Without turning off the device, add eggs to the butter-sugar mixture, one at a time. They are followed by kefir and soda powder. We knead all this, but now we use a spoon.

Next in line is flour (we sifted it together with cocoa before), salt, and chocolate pieces. After diligent kneading, the dough comes out.

Distribute it among the molds and put it in an oven heated to 180°C. When, after checking (piercing the central cupcake), the wooden skewer remains dry, the dessert must be pulled out.

You can fill small forms with dough, or place it in one large one. In the first case, the delicacy will bake faster.

Delicate curd recipe

Cottage cheese baked goods, as well as soft creamy Mascarpone cheese, have won the hearts of many gourmets, so housewives choose the recipe for cottage cheese cupcakes, and use Italian cheese for decoration in order to bake a delicious, delicate and beautiful dessert at home, step by step, as in the photo.

Ingredients:

150 g flour;
180 g cottage cheese;
200 g granulated sugar;
3 eggs;
150 g butter;
40 ml milk;
1 tsp. baking powder.

For cream:

1 tsp. vanilla sugar;
70 g powdered sugar;
200 ml heavy cream;
150 g Mascarpone cheese;
food coloring if desired.

Preparation:

If the curd product is grainy, then be sure to rub it through a sieve so that it becomes plastic and airy; if it is soft, then we skip this stage of preparation.

Pour beet sugar into a bowl, beat in eggs, add cottage cheese and butter, not softened, but melted. Beat the ingredients until smooth.

After that, add flour in portions, do not forget about baking powder and knead the curd dough, which we fill the molds with and put in the oven for 20-25 minutes, temperature 180 °
C.

Cool the finished muffins in the pan first and then transfer them to a wire rack.

For the cream, we take only chilled heavy cream, which we pour into the mixer bowl and begin to beat, gradually adding sweet powder and flavored sugar to it.

Then add cream cheese into the creamy mass in three additions and mix everything well again.
Using food coloring and a piping bag with tips and beads, decorate the cupcakes.

Important!

For the dough, you need to use only high-quality oil with a fat content of at least 82.5%; the taste of the finished baked goods will be greatly affected by using poor products.

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Option with carrots

If you want to please your loved ones with delicious and unusual pastries, you can choose any step-by-step recipe for such a tasty and beautiful dessert as in the photo - cupcakes. Among all the options, carrot cupcakes with cream deserve special attention, which you should definitely prepare at home.

Ingredients:

200 g flour;
100 ml vegetable oil;
40 g raisins;
50 ml milk;
200 g carrots;
100 g granulated sugar;
1 egg;
1 tsp. ginger;
2 tsp. baking powder;
1 tsp. ground cinnamon;
1 g vanilla.

For cream:

170 g cream cheese;
55 g butter;
50 g powdered sugar;
carrots (for decoration).

Preparation:

Immediately pass the flour and baking powder into a bowl through a sieve, add vanilla sugar, cinnamon and ginger, which can also be taken fresh, only in this case it will need to be chopped on a fine grater and added along with the carrots.
In a mixer bowl, beat the beet sugar and eggs until smooth and fluffy, then add the butter and stir everything again.
Pour the egg mixture into the dry ingredients and mix with a whisk or a mixer.
Then add finely grated carrots, mix and at the end add raisins, which must first be steamed with boiling water and milk, knead everything until smooth.
Fill the molds with the resulting dough and place the cupcakes in the oven for 25 minutes, temperature 160°C.
To decorate, we will make buttercream; for this we take soft butter and, together with powdered sugar and chilled cheese, put it in a mixer bowl, beat until smooth and fluffy.
Using a pastry bag, spread the cream onto the cooled cupcakes; for decoration, we also use pieces of carrots and colored sprinkles.

Advice!

For the cream, it is better to use powdered sugar rather than sand, since its crystals simply do not have time to dissolve in the cheese, and the cream will not taste very pleasant.

Chocolate cupcakes from Andy Chef

There is one incredible recipe with a biscuit structure and banana flavor. Cooking with it is easy and quick. And it turns out very tasty. However, cupcakes couldn’t be any different. Shall we try?

Pour cocoa powder, flour, baking soda and granulated sugar into a heap into one bowl and sift. Then we mix it all.

Melt natural butter. Cut the banana into thin slices. Add these products to the bulk mixture. By the way, it is also acceptable to use vegetable oil (odorless). But it works better with the cow component.

That's where the eggs go. And then the mixer comes into play, turning the ingredients into a thick, homogeneous dough in which the banana is not visible.

Baking dishes can be prepared in two ways:

cover with parchment;
grease with any oil and sprinkle with flour.

The oven needs a temperature of 160°C. We will check the readiness of chocolate cupcakes from Andy Chef with wooden skewers.

Let the baked goods cool slightly, wrap them together with the molds in cling film and leave them like that for 24 hours.

Exquisite recipe - “Red Velvet”

At home, you can bake such a stunningly beautiful dessert as red velvet cupcakes, which you can use to decorate the New Year's and Christmas table or prepare a dessert for Valentine's Day. If you follow the step-by-step recipe with photos, you can easily prepare baked goods that will rival even the most exquisite desserts.

Ingredients:

125 ml kefir;
100 ml refined oil;
0.5 tsp. soda;
1 tbsp. l. cocoa;
130 g granulated sugar;
1 egg;
180 g flour;
0.5 tsp. salt;
0.5 tsp. food coloring (red);
a pinch of vanillin.

For cream:

100 g powdered sugar;
300 g cream cheese;
100 g butter.

Preparation:

Sift flour into any convenient container, add baking soda, vanillin, cocoa and salt, mix.

In another container, beat the eggs first with the beet sugar, and then with the butter.
Add dye to the fermented milk drink, mix and pour into the egg-oil mixture, stir.

We combine the two masses and knead, the dough should turn out bright, so if necessary, add more dye.

Fill the molds with dough and cook the cupcakes in the oven for 20-25 minutes, temperature 180 °
C.

To decorate the dessert, prepare a cream from cream cheese, powder and softened butter; if desired, you can add vanilla flavoring.

Using a pastry bag, we make original cream caps for the cupcakes; we use any sprinkles or fresh berries for decoration.

Advice!

Dyes play an important role in the preparation of dessert; dry ones are not suitable here, they will not bring the desired result, so we use only gel options.

Cupcakes are a unique and simple dessert, because they are based on a simple dough recipe. Therefore, at home, any housewife can easily bake cupcakes as bright, tasty and beautiful as those in the photos presented. The main thing is to follow step-by-step recommendations and some tips. But here you need to remember, even though the cupcakes are small in size, they are quite high in calories, so those who are watching their figure should be careful with such a dessert.