Monday, June 17, 2013

Magdalenas - A Spanish Cupcake

Magdalenas are cupcakes like mini cakes served traditionallyduring breakfast with cup of coffee at most of the Spanish houses.Magdalenas are small sponge cakes made with eggs, flour and olive oil but some many modern versions use butter instead of olive oil. Although these small cakes have been made for special holidays since the Middle Ages, they are now so popular that they are an everyday pleasure. Magdalenas have a super moist texture and shiny, a beautiful golden brown tops. They come in three basic shapes, they can be a classic, high domed round, a flat topped round and an oblong shape.

Am running my third week of blogging marathon with Kid's delight-Finger foods for kid's party, these magdalenas aka Spanish cupcakes are definitely a crowd pleaser,very prefect finger foods for a kid's party.Kids will be definitely pleased by this super spongy cupcakes with a sugar crust, do bake some am sure this cupcakes will definitely suits prefectly for a kid's party.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this 29th edition.Sending to Flavours of Spain guest hosted by me, an event by Nayna.


3nos Eggs
1cup Sugar
1+1/4cup All purpose flour
1tbsp Baking powder
Zest from a Lemon
1tbsp Milk
1cup Melted butter

Preheat the oven to 375F,keep aside quarter cup of sugar .

In a medium bowl, beat the eggs,3/4th of sugar, beat the mixture until they turns light.

Now add the melted butter (slightly cooled) to the egg-sugar mixture, add the lemon zest,milk and mix well.

Sieve together the flour and baking powder, add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well, the batter will be very thick.

Place the paper liners into the cupcake pan, spoon the batter into the pan, just fill the pan half full.

Batter will double in size when baked.

Now with a teaspon,sprinkle the sugar (we kept aside) on the top of the each magdalna/

Bake for 18-20minutes until the top turn golden brown.

Remove from the oven and all it to cool.

41 comments:

Sona - quick picks/pick quicks said... Reply To This Comment

They are so perfect mini bites. Lovely. .Priya...n u just make me wonder...wow ! how can u ever be posting soo many recipes !!! Really admire you for that.

Priya Anandakumar said... Reply To This Comment

very lovely and delicious cup cakes... Thanks for sharing...

MySpicyKitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Tempting cupcakes, delicious!

Vikis Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Magdalenas look superb Priya. Wanna grab a handful :)

Corporate to Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

I love the name of these & they looks very delicious. Although the recipe seems same as the cup cakes I make. I like the small cracked look on the top. I am sure you must have enjoyed having this.

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Cupcakes look so delicious and mouthwatering. Excellent preparation.
Deepa

great-secret-of-life said... Reply To This Comment

looks so yummy..

Ms.Chitchat said... Reply To This Comment

Looks soft and fluffy, loved the rich color too.

Daksha said... Reply To This Comment

yummy, delicious.... moist cupcakes.

easyfoodsmith said... Reply To This Comment

Yum! These look and sound yummy.

Akila said... Reply To This Comment

Looks lovely

Lifewithspices said... Reply To This Comment

tis is so so mouthwatering..

cookingwithsapana said... Reply To This Comment

Looks great ! Yum

Kalyani said... Reply To This Comment

look at those cupcakes :-)) totally yum.. wish could make it eggless. will flax seed help Priya ??

Kalyani
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Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

Those cupcakes are so tempting Priya, nice to know more abt this..

Laxmipriya said... Reply To This Comment

looks delicious.. yummy.. :)

Rafeeda AR said... Reply To This Comment

these look so cute... perfect treat...

Janani said... Reply To This Comment

Nice very innovative cupcakes love it

Alessandra said... Reply To This Comment

Classic, I love them!!

Ciao
Alessandra

Sweet'n'Savoury said... Reply To This Comment

wow such lovely cupcakes

Shama Nagarajan said... Reply To This Comment

drooling ...yummy

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

so cute and adorable :) pass me some..

Chef Mireille said... Reply To This Comment

I've heard of these but I don't think I have ever tried them - look super delicious

Manju said... Reply To This Comment

Cupcakes are always kids friendly one. Looks so soft.

Poornimacookbook said... Reply To This Comment

looks very yummy and love your clicks too priya.

vaishali sabnani said... Reply To This Comment

Wow they look too good...super soft moist n yum.

Chitz said... Reply To This Comment

Such spongy & perfect looking cupcakes.. And yet such a simple preparation :)

Asiya Omar said... Reply To This Comment

Wow! Priya, you are rocking, looks so delicious..

Swati Sapna said... Reply To This Comment

They look delectable! Like a cross between cupcakes/muffins and those mawa cakes! :)

Vimitha Durai said... Reply To This Comment

Looks super akka

Anonymous said... Reply To This Comment

interesting

Nithya said... Reply To This Comment

Very tempting cup cakes..

Suja Manoj said... Reply To This Comment

Looks so yum,never tried this before,thanks for sharing.

Sandhya Ramakrishnan said... Reply To This Comment

Looks very delicious! I love the idea of sprinkling sugar on top to get some texture :)

sushma said... Reply To This Comment

Mouthwatering and super delicious cupcakes

Radhika@foodfor7stages said... Reply To This Comment

Now I know what to make for Friday's tea party. They are so adorable

Pavani said... Reply To This Comment

That sounds like a simple and delicious cupcake.. Lovely!!

Padmajha said... Reply To This Comment

Never heard of it but am sure everyone will love this cute cupcake Priya

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

I like that lemon flavor in cakes looks so soft...

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

These cakes look so cute and the pictures are very tempting as well!

preeti garg said... Reply To This Comment

delicious and tempting cupcakes