Vanilla Walnut Cupcakes

Ingredients: (8 to 10 cupcakes)

• All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 and half a Cup
• Baking Powder - 1/2 tbsp
• Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
• Butter - 50 gms
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Vanilla essence - 2 tsp's
• Egg's - 2
• Warm Milk - 2 tbsp's
• Chopped Walnuts - 4 tbsp's

Method:

1. Pre-Heat the Oven at 190C for 10 minutes. Line the Muffin Pans or grease the muffin pans with little butter, if you dont have muffin lining papers.
2. Sift the Flour, Baking Powder and Baking Soda atleast three times.
3. Powder the Sugar.
4. In a Mixing Bowl, Have the butter at room temperature. add powdered sugar and beat well either with a hand whisk or hand blender.
5. After Creaming the Butter with Sugar, Break egg's into them one by one and beat well.
6. Add Vanilla essence to the bowl and beat well.
7. Now add sifted flours little by little and mix with a wooden spoon. add little milk and give a mix with the wooden spoon.
8. Add chopped walnuts and give a soft mix. and drop a spoon full of mix onto the lined muffin pans.
9. Bake the Cupcakes for 15-18 minutes at 190C. or till a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cupcake comes out clean.
10. After Baking, cool the cupcakes for atleast 10 minutes.
11. I frosted the cupcake with Nutella. It was yummy, though the frosting patterns was difficult for me.
12. The Cupcakes was great in taste. the sweetness was just correct. If you are planning for frosting, go ahead with the same sugar amount mentioned in the recipe. if not using frosting, increase the sugar amount by 1/4 cup.