There are times when you think that you are in a deep sleep but you are actually half awake. It happens to all of us every now and then I guess! It’s the time when your eyes are shut but your brain is still working/ thinking about different matters of your life.
Last night was a very long night, I couldn’t sleep until really late, I woke up feeling as if I ran 10 miles. Besides being exhausted, I could not focus, but I knew how to fix that.
A cup of coffee wakes me up and relaxes me at the same time, but today it didn’t seem to work! All I wanted to do is go back to bed.
Then I grabbed a cupcake and somehow that took care of my mood, could be the sugar, or maybe the taste and the smell of orange.
Well, I’m wide awake now, and don’t mind another cupcake 🙂 … I’m sharing with you today a cupcake that not only go so well with your coffee, but makes you feel good, at least that what it did to me.
Here we go!
Orange Crumble Cupcake
Makes 12 cupcakes. 155 calories per cupcake.
Cake:
1 1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 egg
2 teaspoons orange zest
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoon melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup milk
2 tablespoons orange juice
Crumble:
4 tablespoons unpacked brown sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon butter
– Preheat oven to 180C/350F. Place your cupcake liners in the cupcake pan.
– In a bowl, whisk flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Keep aside.
– In a different bowl, add the egg and sugar, beat until creamy in texture, add vanilla, orange zest, butter, oil, and orange juice, beat well.
– Add the milk and beat until combined. Add the flour and mix gently. Do not over mix, you may see some lumps but don’t worry about it.
– Pour the batter evenly in the cupcake liners.
– Mix the crumble ingredients together, then sprinkle the crumble mixture on top of each cupcake evenly.
– Bake for 13 – 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
I love the colour and flavours of these crumble muffins. I would love one too.
Wow, nica seet tooth…
lovely citrusy cake can made my taste buds dance for sue
btw, my mom used to add some orange drink wowder too for her orange cupecake
I hate when I can’t sleep well. It makes the whole day so difficult. But a cupcake like this would definitely help! The orange flavor sounds so good!
These would definitely make me happy, they look fabulous. And you make them look so easy!
And I can’t wait to bake your perfect vanilla cupcake, I’m dreaming about it 🙂
We all have those nights, I do too often! It might be carbs and orange together that make us happy and for a moment everything goes back to normal. Looks amazing, Muna! Yummy pictures and that would go so well with my morning coffee.
Thanks dear 🙂
Orange cupcake with a cup of cold milk? yes please! 😀
Oh yes, a glass of cold milk will sure be refreshing too 😉
Ugh, I hate that kind of sleep! I always wake up feeling like my food didn’t digest after a really short nap! I spend the day feeling bloated, tired and basically very angry…
Then there is the opposite: falling asleep with your eyes open in the middle of the day (it’s a thing!) and then you shake yourself awake a bit and realize that you would do anything for your bed and some pj’s right now.
I read a really inspirational post the other day on another blog about the importance of sleep! Really woke me up…These crumble cupcakes look delicious however! Yummy 🙂
Sleeping is really important and if you don’t get enough of it, everything and anything turns annoying!
Hi Muna, the receipe sounds great…i was just searching for cupcakes with orange zest after having one from my kids kindergarten. It was sooo goood. Can you lease tell whether you have used store brought packed orange juice or home made and also where to buy orange zest? Thanks
Sindhu, the orange juice as homemade and I used fresh orange zest.