Happy Y2025 New Year to everyone ๐๐๐๐๐ถ๐
I began baking my first cake for Year 2025 with nine mini butter cupcakes flavoured by vanilla, dried flowers of chrysanthemum , osmanthus, and French rose. The osmanthus flowers seemed to dominate the fragrance, while the tiny rose petals were just for visual pleasure.
Working video:
Yield: nine petite cupcakes
Paper cup size: 3 cm base, bought from Daiso
Baking temperature: Preheated small oven toaster at 160℃ for 3 minutes. Bake at 160℃ for 20 to 25 minutes, or till golden brown and cooked through.
Ingredients
All ingredients in room temperature
A
38g unsalted butter, softened
2g rice bran oil/mild flavour vegetable oil
15g raw sugar
15g fine sugar
B
1 egg, 55g
Pinch of low-sodium salt
5g raw sugar
5g fine sugar
C
30g top/cake flour
10g plain flour
5g milk powder
1g baking powder
Pinch of vanillin powder, optional
D
10g chrysanthemum tea, sweetened
5g honey
a small amount of dried osmanthus flowers
E
1 tsp dried osmanthus flower
A few dried French rose petals, chopped

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1.Beat Ingredient B till light and frothy.
2.Cream Ingredient A using a hand whisk till light and pale.
3. Blend Ingredient B to A till well combined.
4. Mix and fold in Ingredient C, mix well.
5. Blend Ingredient D to batter till smooth and glossy.
6. Scatter E over the top of the batter, and mix well.
7. Pour batter to paper cake cup, about 22~23g batter each cup. Lightly rap against work top to level batter and get rid of trapped air bubbles.
8..Transfer the filled paper cups to a small pan.
9. Preheated a small oven toaster to 160℃ for 3 minutes. Bake at 160℃ for 20 to 25 minutes, or till golden brown and cooked through.
10. Remove the hot cup cakes from oven toaster, and cool down over wire rack for 5 minutes. Cover the cupcakes with food wrap while cooling down to lock the moisture in, optional.
11. Serve after cooling down ๐