I’ve realized over the past days working through my recipe index how my baking has changed, partly because after a while, all your traditional go to bakes has been uploaded, and you’re challenged to try new things. This led me to buy some rose water extract on bottle. I had never before used rose water up until a couple of days ago – but I’m already a fan. If you put it in cakes, they become extremely moist and soft (keep your eye’s out for a recipe coming soon), and the flavor is just something new and different. The cupcakes I used a regular chocolate cupcake recipe for, and the frosting recipe I found on this blog, although I added some more cream and rose water to mine, since I believed it was a little too thick before. Sprinkled with silver sprinkles and glittering stars, these would be perfect in a fairy tale.

Recipe / Recept 

3 eggs / 3 ägg

125 g of butter / 125 g smör 

2.4 cups of sugar / 3 dl socker 

2.4 cups of flour / 3 dl mjöl

0.3 cups of water / 3/4 dl vatten

1.5 teaspoons of baking powder / 1.5 tsk bakpulver

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract / 1 tsk vaniljsocker

4 tbsp of cacao powder / 4 msk kakao

Frosting / Frosting

1 stick of butter / 115 g smör

2 cups icing sugar / 5 dl florsocker

1 tsp vanilla / 1 tsk vaniljsocker 

1/3 cup whipping cream / 0.75 dl vispgrädde

0.5 tsp of rose water / 0.5 tsk rosenvatten extrakt

2 drops of red food coloring / 2 droppar röd karamellfärg

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. / Sätt ugnen på 175 grader.

2. Whisk sugar and eggs fluffy and almost white, melt the butter. / Vispa socker och ägg pösigt och nästan vitt, smält smöret.

3. Mix all the dry ingredients together separately. Add the flour mix to the egg and sugar mix, be careful and add a little at a time./ Blanda alla torra ingredienser i en bunke. Tillsätt mjölblandningen försiktigt till ägg och socker mixen.

4. Add melted butter and water. / Tillsätt smält smör och vatten.

5. Put down muffin-thins in a muffin-pan, and fill 3/4 with batter. / Sätt formar i en muffinplåt, fyll till 3/4 med smet.

6. Bake for about 15 min. / Grädda i ca 15 min.

7. Let cool completely. / Låt svalna helt.

8. Mix the butter and icing sugar together for about 2 min. / Vispa socker och florsocker i ca 2 min.

9. Add vanilla and cream. / Tillsätt vaniljsocker och grädde.

10. Mix for about 2 more min. / Vispa i ca 2 min till.

11. Add the rose water. / Blanda i rosen vattnet.

12. Blend in the food coloring. / Vispa i karamellfärgen.

13. Ice the cupcakes and sprinkle with silver sprinkles. / Glasera cupcakesen och strö över silverkulor.

14. Done! / Klart!