SAFFRON CUPCAKES
 
 
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup warm milk
  • 7-8 saffron strands
  • 1 cup yogurt
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ½ cup oil
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • 1+1/2 cup all purpose flour (maida)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Buttercream frosting
  • ½ cup softened butter
  • 1 cup icing sugar
  • Vanilla
  • Yellow colour
  • For Garnish
  • Chopped pistachios
  • Saffron strands
Instructions
  1. Add saffron strands into the warm milk and set it aside.
  2. Mix baking soda with yogurt and let it rest for few minutes.
  3. Add in the sugar, oil, vanilla essence and the saffron milk. Mix everything with the help of a whisk.
  4. Sift in all purpose flour and baking powder and fold in carefully with a spatula without over mixing.
  5. Line a cupcake tray and use an ice cream scoop to scoop in your batter. This recipe makes 12 cupcakes
  6. Bake the cupcakes in a preheated oven at 180 C for 20-25 min until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean
  7. For the buttercream frosting, add softened butter into a bowl and beat it for 4-5 minutes at high speed until it becomes pale and fluffy.
  8. In the same bowl, add in vanilla and mix this in as well.
  9. Mix your sifted icing sugar in two parts. Make sure all the sugar is nicely combined.
  10. Add in few drops of yellow food colour and mix your frosting well. Frost your cupcakes with a big star nozzle. Garnish with some pistachios and saffron.
Recipe by Bake with Shivesh at https://bakewithshivesh.com/saffron-cupcakes/