A lush, fragrant cupcake with different nuts and orange jam will create a pleasant atmosphere of home warmth and coziness. With this cupcake, any tea party will be joyful and happy.
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You will need
- - 150 g cream margarine;
- - 1 tbsp. Sahara;
- - 4 eggs;
- - 330 g of wheat flour;
- - 150 g of nut mixture (any nuts will do);
- - 3 tablespoons orange jam;
- - 1 tsp zest of orange;
- - 2 tsp baking powder;
- - 70 ml of dark rum;
- - 200 g of dried fruit;
- - icing sugar for sprinkling.
Instruction manual
1
Cut dried fruits into small slices, put in a cup, pour rum. Leave to soak for several hours. Beat with a mixer the slightly melted butter with sugar until smooth, at high speed for 7 minutes.
2
Introduce the eggs into the oil mass in turn. Beat each time for at least a minute. The butter-egg mixture should be soft and airy. Fry nuts lightly in a dry pan, chop into crumbs.
3
Add nut crumbs, orange jam and orange zest, a portion of flour mixed with baking powder to the egg-oil mixture. Keep whisking at low speed. Enter the rest of the flour in small portions in stages. Add dried fruits and the remains of rum to the mass, mix with a spoon until smooth.
4
Prepare a large detachable mold. Lubricate the inside with oil. Cover the bottom and sides of the mold with baking paper. Put the thick dough in a detachable form, smooth it well with a spoon. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Place the dough pan in the oven and bake for 50 minutes.
5
Remove the baked walnut muffin with orange peel jam and orange peel, cool without removing from the mold for 15 minutes. Remove the warm muffin from the pan and let it cool completely. Sprinkle the icing sugar with the cupcake and serve.
6
You can experiment with the recipe for this cupcake. Instead of nuts, you can add coconut, dried cranberries or cherries. Replace rum with liquor. Each time the taste will be new and deliver a lot of positive emotions.
Useful advice
For the cake to be successful, it was lush and beautiful, all products must be at the same room temperature. It is advisable to cook food in advance and let it brew.
To avoid excessive cake density, butter and eggs should be beaten well.
The dough was beaten correctly if the cake rose during baking and cracked along.
The readiness of the cake is checked with a wooden skewer. If you pierce it, it remains dry, then the cupcake is ready.