White Chocolate Cupcake with white chocolate frosting

After much effort…By effort I mean my colleagues effort, I am finally able to connect to my blogJ

I am in Shenzhen and enjoying the novelty of being a novelty here!! Haha

In the past , most places , may be exception of Cambodia, there was always a long queue in immigration for foreigners. But to my surprise, in Shenzhen immigration, I am the only foreigner in the queue.

The awkwardness started with the officer going through all my passport pages one by one.Later in the evening when I went out with my colleague I started to notice that people are really starring at me! I mean not in a bad way, guess that they r just curios.

2 days here, I am yet to see a foreigner, let alone an IndianL

Anyways that is not going to stop me from exploring the shopping districts during the weekend.

Coming to today’s recipe, it’s a decadent white chocolate cupcakes. Made a batch on these during last weekend for the birthday of my friends daughter.

White Chocolate Cupcake with white chocolate frosting.

Recipe Adapted from: Baking bites 

Ingredients

1 Cup Flour

1 tspn baking powder

Pinch of salt

125 gms milk chocolate

60 gms butter

1/3 Cup sugar

1 egg+1 egg white

1 tspn Vanilla essence -optional

1/3 Cup milk

For icing

60 gms white chocolate

1 tbspn butter

1 tspn milk-optional

Wilton coloring-optional

Directions

Sift together the dry ingredients- Flour, baking powder and salt.

Cream the butter and sugar. Beat it well until the color turn lighter.

Add in the egg+egg white and mix well.

Meanwhile melt the white chocolate chips in a microwave. Stir it well using a spoon. Let it cool down a bit

Add the melted white chocolate and vanilla essence to the egg/butter mixture and beat well .

Add the dry ingredients and milk in 3 alternating additions to the batter and mix until no more flour is visible.

Bake in a 170 degress preheated oven for 15 minutes.

For preparing the icing, add the butter to the melted white chocolate and stir well.

I added some pink colouring for the birthday girl .

If you are preparing the icing in advance, you will need to add in a little milk to get the pipping consistency as the icing will be quite thick.