National Vanilla cupcake day: History and Recipe

What can be more satisfying than a sweet personalized vanilla cupcake with your favourite toppings? Vanilla is one of the most used flavours in our food which can be collaborated with anything to produce delicious results. National Vanilla cupcake day marked in the US is just the right day to indulge in the goodness of this dessert.

Cupcakes are also known as 'fairy cakes' as it is believed that small fairies will come and eat these small cakes. The presence of cupcakes can be traced back to 1796 when a recipe notation for a cake to be baked in small cups was written in American Cookery (by Amelia Simmons). As learnt, the earliest known documentation of the term cupcake was in 1828 in Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.

If you are planning to mark the day, you must make good use of your oven/microwave and bake some lovely cupcakes for your loved ones.

Here is an amazing recipe for vanilla jam cupcakes you can bake at home.

• Take 1+1/4 cup maida and add 2 tbsp cornflour
• Add 1/4 salt, 1/4 baking soda and 1tsp baking powder with the correct measurements. Sieve it all together and keep it aside.
• Take 1 cup milk mix it with 1 tbsp white vinegar and leave it for 10 mins.
• Take 1/3 cup of vegetable oil or ghee as per your choice and add 3/4 sugar powder and mix it well. Mix it well and then add 1/4 TSP vanilla essence to the mixture
• Then add the milk and vinegar mixture with the little bit of already prepared dry mixture.
• Add the oil and sugar and blend it well.
• Then add the leftover dry mixture with the liquid mixture.
• Mix the dry mixture with the liquid and blend it well but do not over-mix! Your batter is ready now.
• Fill the batter in the disposable piping bags for frizz-free preparation.
• Get the 3 to 4 tbsp jam (mix fruit jam) ready for adding to the cupcakes.
• Fill the jam into the piping bags.
• Preheat the microwave to 175 C for 5 mins
• Add the batter to the cups and put the jam in the middle of the batter.
• Bake it at 175 C for 15-18 mins
• Keep it aside for cooling for 20 mins and then garnish it with your favourite colours!

Be creative with frosting- If you love baking and have already planned to bake vanilla cupcakes so here is your chance to go crazy with decoration. Decorate your cups with beautiful additions, and experiment with designs and toppings.

Collaborate with your baker friends and make this day count by spreading smiles all around.