Pineapple Cupcakes

There are some delicious fresh pineapples in the shops at the moment and at a good price so I decided to have a go at making a cupcakes recipe using pineapples. This is the basic recipe I used and I will put any variations I tried at the end. When thinking about these cupcakes I remembered that years ago when I was at school that we were taught how to make pineapple upside down cake so I have also had a go at those but as individual cupcakes to serve as a sweet at the end of a meal or as a treat.
Ingredients
4 oz--112gm--1/2 cup butter or margarine
4 oz--112 gm--1/2 cup Castor sugar
4 oz--112 gm--1 cup self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence
3 oz--82 gm--1/4 cup of fresh pineapple put through a blender.
Method
Cream together the sugar and butter or margarine.
Add the eggs one at a time and beat .
Add the vanilla essence.
Add the flour and baking powder and mix together.
Add the pineapple and mix.
Fill the cupcake cases just over half full.
Small cup cases makes about 12 to 14. The larger muffin size cup cases makes about 6 to 8.
Cook at gas 5--190C--375F for 10 to 14 minutes for small cases and 20minutes for the larger cupcakes. I place the cupcakes near the top but I have a gas oven.
Do not open the oven for the first 10 minutes as the cupcakes are cooking and if you open it they will go flat.
Remove when cooked. They should be springy to the touch and a cocktail stick should come out clean.
Cool on a cake rack.
Start thinking about fillings and toppings.
Variations
1. Add 1 oz--1/4 cup of dessicated coconut to the mixture with the pineapple.
2. Add the coconut and 1 oz--1/4 cup of glace cherries to the mixture.
3. Add the grated zest or rind of 1 lemon
3. Add the grated zest or rind of 1 orange
4. Add the grated zest or rind of 1 lime
5. Add half a red chili very finely chopped for a spicy version
6. Add 1 teaspoon of ground coriander, from the seeds not the leaves.
7. Add 1 teaspoon of ground cumin
8. Add 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon Butter or margarine and sugar ready for beating

The beaten fat and sugar with eggs being beaten in one at a time

The flour has been added and now I am adding the blended pineapple

The mixture in the muffin sized cup cases ready for the oven

The pineapple cupcakes cooling on the cupcake rack.

I am going to show how I filled these later.

Thanks for reading