Sunday, March 15, 2015

Avocado cup cake

Other day we went to Sam's club for shopping and bought a bag of avocados. I used half of it for gauc. I didn't wanna use remaining for gauc not that we don't enjoy it but wanted to enjoy avocado in various other ways. I started googling and guess what.. I found a nice recipe of a cup cake. Sounds so very appetizing .. so what we waiting for.. Let's make note of ingredients

Ingredients - 

Cupcake - 

  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons lime zest
  •  teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup mashed avocado
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil/ olive oil/ canola oil
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup non-dairy milk ( you can also use regular dairy milk if you are not vegan)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lime juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract.  

Frosting:

  • 1/2 cup mashed avocado
  • 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lime juice
  • 2 cups icing sugar
  • Milk if needed for thinning

Directions - 

  • Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) and line a muffin tin with 12 liners. In a large bowl combine the flour, lime zest, baking powder and soda, and salt. 
  • Puree the avocado in a bowl or blender then mix in the oil. Stir into this the sugar followed by milk, lime juice and vanilla extract. 
  • Stir wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Make sure there are no lumps. 
  • Pour batter into prepared liners and bake for 15-20 minutes or until cooked. Let the cupcakes cool in pan. 

Frosting Directions - 

  • Mash avocado with the lime juice in a medium bowl until smooth then stir in icing sugar. Cover and refrigerate it until cupcakes cool and ready for frosting. 
  • Spread about a tablespoon of frosting on each cake. 


Let me know if you like them. I enjoyed the new way of consuming avocado. To avoid calories, I skipped frosting :P

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