Orange Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing

Orange Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing

The heat apocalypse in Ireland has temporarily subsided it seems! Or at least the sunshine element has, it is still very warm (for the past six days we’ve had temperatures nearing 30°, and it was hotter than Ibiza even at least once! Same forecast for the next week!) So now that it is beautiful and cloudy and yet still warm, it’s time to attempt going outside again for a picnic.

A super simple recipe, with the only things that take any time is grating the rind off the orange and icing the cupcakes.

Ingredients:

Rind of 2 oranges (1 big orange or 2 mandarins)

½ cup orange juice (from the squeezed rinded orange or from a carton)

1½ cups self raising flour

1 cup sugar

1/5 cup oil

1 tsp. vinegar

3/4 cup water

Preheat oven to 180°

1. Mix flour, sugar and orange rind.

2. Add orange juice, water and oil. Add vinegar.Mix.

3. Bake for 15-20mins or until lightly browned.

We decorated it with chocolate icing (icing sugar + cocoa powder + a little bit of butter), but another good idea is to melt some chocolate and dip the top of the cupcake in to make a nice chocolate topping.

Alternatively, to make chocolate orange cupcakes, add about 2-3 tbsp of cocoa powder to the batter.