Vanilla Cake & Cupcakes With Chocolate Frosting

 

Vanilla cupcakes or cake with chocolate frosting & with strawberry slices, another Christmas treat .... sounds heaven ;) ... They were perfectly soft, moist and spongy.

Ingredients
For Cake
1 1/2 cups Maida
1 cup curds
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1 1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/2 cup Cooking oil
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla essence

For Frosting
1 cup unsalted white butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cup icing sugar
2 tbsp milk
1 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
Edible decorating balls

Method
Preheat oven to 180˚C for 10mins and line cupcake moulds with paper or grease & dust a cake tin.
Sieve maida, baking powder & baking soda thrice and keep aside.
Cream sugar & curd until sugar completely dissolves.
Now add vanilla essence, cooking oil and mix well.
Next, slowly add maida in portions at a time and blend with above ingredients.
Fold well until creamy and thick.
Bake in preheated oven at 180˚C for 20 mins, till a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool down, before decorating.

For Frosting
In mean time, In a large bowl, cream together the butter and vanilla. Blend in the sugar, little portion at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the milk, cocoa powder and continue mixing until light and fluffy. Keep icing covered until ready to decorate.

Tips

* You can use soaking syrup to soak the cake before icing – 2 1/2 tsp sugar

   + 2 tsp water + 1/2 tsp vanilla + 1/4 tsp cocoa powder
* I used sugar powder instead of icing sugar & it came out perfectly well.
* While making frosting, do taste it & adjust sugar accordingly.
* You can skip cocoa powder in frosting & make it white.

* You can add 2 tbsp cocoa powder with maida to make it a chocolate cake

* I used chopped strawberries in the centre & also to decorate cake.