Cauliflower citrus cupcakes

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We bet you've never seen cauliflower like this before! Hidden inside these zesty cupcakes, cauliflower makes the texture extra moist and yummy.

Ingredients

1 orange
1 lemon
200g cauliflower
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 vanilla bean, split, scraped
1/2 cup olive oil
1 1/4 cups self-raising flour
Pinch salt
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
125g extra light cream cheese
1/4 cup icing sugar
3 teaspoons lemon juice
Orange zest to decorate
Lemon zest, to decorate

Instructions

Step 1
Preheat oven to 180C or 160C fan-force. Line a 12 hole muffin pan with paper cases.
Step 2
Finely grate orange and lemon over a large bowl. Juice orange and lemon. Add 2 tablespoons of juice of each fruit. Process cauliflower in a food processor until very finely chopped. Add to rind and juice. Stir to combine.
Step 3
Whisk sugar and eggs until combined. Add vanilla bean seeds and oil and whisk to combine. Add cauliflower mixture (including the juice) and whisk to combine. Sift flour and salt over egg mixture. Stir until just combined. Divide batter between paper cases. Bake for 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted in centre comes out clean. Cool cakes in pan for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
How to extract vanilla seeds from the pod, make vanilla sugar and make vanilla extract.
Step 4
To make cream cheese frosting, whisk cream cheese, icing sugar and lemon juice in a large bowl until combined. Spread over cooled cupcakes. Decorate with orange and lemon zest

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