Vanilla cupcakes with Rose flavored Butter cream frosting- Women's day Special

Today is International Women's day. I wish all my friends, Readers and fellow bloggers, Happy womens day. To celebrate the occasion, today's recipe is Vanilla cupcakes with rose flavored butter cream frosting. Since I added rose flavor to the frosting, I tried to make rose design on top of the cupcakes. I got the inspiration for it from my friend Priya who recently posted Rose cake , which she made for her anniversary in her blog.

Recipe :Joy of Baking

What are the ingredients needed?

For the cupcakes

All purpose flour, 1 1/2 cup

Baking powder, 1 1/2 teaspoon

Salt, 1/4 teaspoon

Butter, 1/2 cup

Sugar, 2/3 cup

Eggs, 3 nos. 

Vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon

Milk, 1/4 cup

For the Rose Butter cream frosting

Powdered Sugar(Icing sugar)- 2 cups

Butter, 1/2 cup

Rose essence, 1 teaspoon

Milk, 2 table spoons

Pink color

How it is made?

Cupcakes

1. Pre heat the oven to 350 F
2. Prepare the cupcake pan by lining with paper liners and keep them ready.
3. Sift together all purpose flour, baking powder and salt and keep it aside.
4. Using a beater, cream together butter and sugar until fluffy. Then add eggs one by one and continue beating. Then add vanilla extract and beat.
5. Now to this mixture add the flour mixture, alternating with milk and mix  until they are well combined.
6. Pour this batter into the prepared cupcake pan dividing equally in each cup and bake for 15-17 minutes until they are done.
7. Let the cupcakes cool before frosting.

Butter cream frosting

1. With hand mixer or electric mixer, cream butter until it is smooth and fluffy.
2. Then add the rose essence and  continue to mix.
3. Reduce the speed and little by little add powdered sugar and continue beating. Scrape the edges. 
4. Then add milk and rose color and continue to beat at high speed till the frosting is light and fluffy.

Assembly 

1. Before applying the frosting make sure that the cakes are completely cooled.
2. I used Wilton 1M star tip to make the rose. Gently place the tip in the centre and make swirls around to form the rose pattern gently rotating the cupcake.
3. You can make design as per your choice too.
4. I added some sprinkles and colored sugar too.

Notes:

• Please make sure all the ingredients are in room temperature.
• While baking please make sure the cake is not over baked. The timings in oven varies with each oven.
• For making vanilla frosting instead of rose essence you can use vanilla extract and the color  can be of your choice.