Vanilla Raisin Cupcakes

I had made this cupcakes to prepare for my fondant cupcake project for the upcoming parents' house warming party. The cupcakes were moist and filled with raisins flavour covered with the orange juice. A very nice and simple recipe and it's very good to just have it on it's own even without any decorations.

*Read more on my fondant cupcake creations in my coming post. Stay tuned!

Ingredients

1 cup dark raisins

1/3 cup orange juice

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar (used slightly lesser)

3 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup milk

Methods

1. Set oven to 160 Celsius.
2. Line cupcakes liner in the tray.
3. In a saucepan, bring raisins and orange juice just to a simmer over medium heat; remove from heat.
4. In a small bowl combine the flour with baking powder and cinnamon.
5. In another bowl beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
6. Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.
7. Alternately stir in flour mixture and milk into butter mixture beginning and ending with flour mixture.
8. Drain raisins and discard soaking liquid, then stir raisins into batter.
9. Spoon batter into cupcake liners to three-quarters full.
10. Bake cupcakes about 20 minutes or until lightly browned and tested with cake tester.
11. Cool then transfer to a rack.