Difficulty: ♥♥
Ingridients:
140g of all purpose flour
110g of superfine sugar
125g of unsalted butter (chopped and room temp.)
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of vanillin
1 teaspoon of potato flour
2 spoons of baking powder
2 or 3 fresh eggs
1/2 cup of milk
4 passionfruits, pulp without pips
Instructions:
The Brazilian Fruits series goes on! This recipe features Maracuja, commonly known as Passion Fruit. I really liked it and I promise, you won't be disappointed!
Pre-heat the oven at 250°. Put the flour, the sugar, the salt, the vanillin, the potato flour, the baking powder, the butter (it is REALLY important that it's at room temperature!!) in the mixer. Start mixing at medium speed for at least three minutes. Then, start adding milk and eggs (one at once, for every egg you put in, you have the mixer going for a few moments).
Once all the ingredients are in, keep mixing for other three minutes. Make sure the mixture is very smooth and creamy. At this point add the passionfruit pulp and gently stir till perfectly blended.
Now take the cupcake pan and insert the paper boxes in the holes. Strain the mixture till you reach the half of the paper box. (don't worry! with baking cupcakes will reach the edges!)
Set the oven at 180° and bake the cupcakes for fifteen minutes.
Once baking is over, put them out of the oven and let them rest for ten minutes, then pull them out of the pan. And you're done! I usually wait at least thirty-fourty minutes before icing.
Frosting: for this particular cupcake recipe, you can choose between two different icing recipes. The first one is the Supreme Vanilla Cream Frosting (I suggest to colour it light yellow!), the other one is the Maracuja Frosting with pulp and pips.
