Coronation Vanilla Cupcakes For Britain’s Coronation of King Charles III – using blue butterfly pea flower tea and hibiscus and rose tea
A once in a lifetime event, the coronation of the King of the United Kingdom. Today is being spent watching the live coronation with family and enjoying the lovely coronation cupcakes I baked yesterday using my mum’s eggless vanilla sponge cupcake recipe. This recipe is vegetarian, not vegan as I used butter and milk.
Ofcourse I had to use the colours of the UK flag for the icing on top – otherwise we cannot call them coronation cupcakes, right?
I went for a pink icing rather than a red icing because red would be too harsh on the eye 😀
For both the pink and blue icing, I used the natural colour from flowers.
For the pink colour, I used rose and hibiscus tea. This gives the icing a lovely light floral rose taste as well as a beautiful baby pink colour.
For the blue colour, I used blue butterfly pea flowers.
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Makes 6 – 7 medium cupcakes
INGREDIENTS:
FOR CAKE
Dry Ingredients
1 heaped cup plain flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
Wet ingredients
125g butter
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
FOR ICING
Blue Icing
2 tbsp icing sugar
2-3 tsp blue butterfly pea flower tea
Pink Icing
2 tbsp icing sugar
2 – 3 tsp hibiscus & rose flower tea
FOR GARNISHING
Blueberries
METHOD:
First, I made the cupcakes.
In a bowl, measure out the plain flour and add baking powder. Mix well.
In a pan, add the butter and melt it over a slow flame.
Switch off the flame and stir in the sugar.
Heat up the milk in a microwave and then add the hot milk to the butter and sugar wet mixture above.
Add the vanilla extract.
Stir well.
Slowly pour the butter milk sugar & vanilla wet mix into the dry mix.
Mix well.
Pre-heat your oven on 200 degrees Celsius.
Place cupcake paper liners in your muffin tray.
Use a spoon to scoop cake batter into the paper liners. I filled them about 3/4 way. You could also fill them upto 1/2 if you want them to be in level with the top of the paper liners.
I got 7 medium sized cupcakes.
Place the tray in your oven and reduce the heat to 180 degrees Celsius.
I baked for 20 minutes. Check your cupcakes when 15 minutes are up just incase your oven bakes faster.
Check that the cupcake is cooked by inserted a toothpick in it. If it comes out clean, the cupcake is ready.
Remove the cupcakes and leave them to cool.
Now prepare the icing.
For the Blue icing:
I first made blue butterfly pea flower tea. Click to buy these blue butterfly pea flowers from my store. These are flowers which provide a natural blue hue.
Add a few tsp of the tea to the icing sugar, mix well and keep aside.
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For the Pink icing:
I first made hibiscus and rose flower tea. Click to buy this hibiscus and rose tea from my store. These are flowers which provide a natural red or pink hue. You can choose to make the icing more pink or more red. I went for pink because I prefer that colour when eating a cupcake 🙂
Add a few tsp of the tea to the icing sugar, mix well and keep aside.
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Once the cupcakes have cooled, decorate them with your icing and add sweets or anything you’d like to garnish. I used rose petals and blueberries.
Coronation Vanilla Cupcakes For Britain’s Coronation of King Charles III – using blue butterfly pea flower tea and hibiscus and rose tea
These cupcakes turned out super soft and were so delicious, everyone loved them.
I found them slightly on the sweet side because of the frosting but I do not have a sweet tooth. If you’re like me, feel free to cut back on the amount of sugar used.
The pink icing had a light floral taste which was quite lovely.
I paired these cupcakes with the left over hibiscus and rose tea.
I also made turmeric infused paneer puff pastry pinwheels whose recipe I’ll add soon!
I hope you have a lovely coronation bank holiday weekend xxx
