Recipe: Orange Poppyseed Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting {Coles Packet Cake Mix Hack}

Summary: Oh I love it when a plan comes together! Regular readers will know that I always bake cupcakes for family birthdays and this time my niece Tay asked for orange poppyseed cupcakes with cream cheese icing. I was excited to make a new flavour for my box cake mix hacks and the orange theme lends itself perfectly to Halloween, which is just around the corner.  To make things fun and pretty I used my Wilton coupler to create the tri coloured frosting, I have a whole write up on how to use it here. I was inspired by the American candy corn, so I went with white yellow and a sort of coral orange. I only added the orange zest to the yellow and orange frosting, so the white stayed white. You could totally go with plain white icing if you prefer and maybe add some candy eyes you can buy, if these are for Halloween.

The recipe is really simple but they taste so beautiful and have a lovely texture; all light and fluffy. You’ll need two oranges for zesting and but you may need extra oranges (or bottled orange juice) to make up the 2/3 cup of orange juice the recipe calls for. If you want to punch up the orange tone of the cake batter, you can add a little orange food dye if you like, I would make mine really orange if I was doing this for Halloween.

Ingredients

• 1 Coles 75c butter cake mix
• 2 eggs
• 1 orange, zest of
• 2/3 cup orange juice
• 1 tblsp poppyseeds
• 3 tblsp vegetable oil