Orange Cupcakes

Ingredients:

• 1 ¾ cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 2 large eggs, separated and whites beaten until stiff
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ cup orange juice
• 100g butter, softened

Icing:

• 1 ½ cups icing sugar
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon grated orange rind
• 3 tablespoons soft butter
• 2-3 tablespoons orange juice

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C.  Grease, or line a 12 hole muffin tray with muffin cups. 
• Combine butter, sugar, egg yolks, and vanilla in a mixing bowl and cream together thoroughly. 
• Mix flour, salt, and baking powder together in a separate mixing bowl.  Add dry ingredients to creamed ingredients ⅓ at a time  alternating with adding portions of the orange juice to the creamed mixture. 
• Fold in beaten egg whites.  Spoon batter into cupcake holes until ½ full. 
• Bake for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean.
• Cool cupcakes completely before frosting with orange icing.

*To make the icing, mix all the ingredients together starting with only 2 tablespoons of the orange juice.  If frosting is too thick then add the additional tablespoon of orange juice.