Wednesday Recipe - Blue Moon Cupcakes

Hello my hungry readers. Today's recipe is Blue Moon Beer cupcakes with vanilla orange frosting and fresh orange slice on top. This was the very first thing I ever made for my husband, Aaron, when we were dating. 

Ingredients: 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened, 1 3/4 cup sugar, 2 1/2 cup flour, 2 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 3 eggs, room temperature, 1/2 tsp orange zest, 1 cup Blue Moon beer, 1/4 cup milk

Directions: 

                                               1. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. 

2. In a small bowl, mix beer and milk. 

3. In another bowl, beat butter and add sugar a little bit at a time, beat it reaaaal good. 

4. Add one egg at a time, beating after each time. 

5. Add vanilla, food color and orange zest. 

6. Alternate pouring the flour mixture and beer mixture into the butter mixture. Beer, flour, mix, beer, flour, mix (make sure you end with flour). 

7. Bake at 375 degrees for 18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

8. For the frosting I just buy Vanilla frosting in the jar and add a little bit of orange extract, real orange juice and orange zest. All of it is to taste. 

Hope you love this as much as my husband does! Loves.