Yummy Yummy Cupcake

As you all know I am taking a class called the Science of food and cooking. In this class I have a final project that will revolve around leavening agents in cupcakes. Before our group can begin the final project we first must pick a standard recipe to use. For this weeks blog each one of my group members (myself included) picked a different recipe to test out and rate based on number of ingredients, readability, and how easily the steps are completed.

The cupcake recipe I used I got from recipes.com (http://www.recipe.com/vanila-cupcakes/).

This recipe had 10 ingredients in total which were: butter, 1 whole egg, egg yolks, vanilla extract, baking powder, all purpose flour, salt, sugar, and whipping cream. I had almost all of the ingredients in my apartment except the whipping cream.

Overall the recipe was pretty simple to complete but at times you were working out of more than one bowl which at times I thought was difficult. On a scale of 5 I would give this recipe a 3 for difficulty. My cupcakes rose nicely and were between 4 to 5 cm's each. Overall, I would prefer a recipe that had less ingredients to use for our project.

Picture 1: my beautiful cupcakes fresh out of the oven

Picture 2: how I measured my cupcakes height