Cardamom & Saffron Cupcake

It's a traditional cake made back home (Bahrain),usually baked in a tube pan but I like it in small cupcake bites :) my recipe works for both :)

Ingredients: (yeilds a dozen and half aprox)

1. 5 eggs
2. 1 cup sugar
3. 1 1/4 cup flour
4. 1/2 cup oil
5. 1/4 cup rose water with saffron strings soaked in it for 5-10 minutes
6. 2 tbl.s ground cardamom
7. 1 1/2 tea.s baking powder
8. 1/4 tea.s vanilla extract
 9. sesame seeds for sprinkling

Method:

1. whisk the eggs until fluffy then add the sugar , oil and vanilla and beat with an electric mixer
2. add the rest of the ingredients and mix
3. pour into a cake pan or cupcakes and sprinkle with sesame seeds
4. bake in a pre heated oven on 360 F for 30-35 minutes for pan or 20-25 minutes for cupcakes.Enjoy.

Tangy Orange Cupcakes

Full of flavor and believe or not it has turmeric!

ingredients:

1. 3 eggs
2. 1 1/2 cups of all propose flour
3. 1 1/2 cups sugar
4. 8 table.s softend butter
5. 2 tea.s baking powder
6. 1/2 tea.s vanilla extract
7. 1 whole orange zest
8. 1 orange juice
9. 1/4 tea.s turmeric

#Frosting (optional ) : 1/2 cream cheese block,1/4 cup or less sweet condensed milk,1 tea.s confectioners sugar, 1 tea.s milk,orange zest.

Method:

1. Pre heat the oven on 350 F
2. Whisk the eggs first with the vanilla extract
3. Add sugar and mix
4. Add butter with orange zest and mix
5. Add flour,turmeric,baking powder and orange juice and mix well
6. Scoop with an ice cream scoop into cup cake pan and bake on 355 F For 20 minutes
7. When ready let it cool before frosting.
8. Mix the frosting ingredients and add more milk gradually if its too thick and frost the cup cakes and top with orange zest.keep cold and Enjoy..