Cupcakes with amusing faces - recipe
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Prepare
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Cook
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Skill
Medium
Ingredients
For the cupcakes
- 2 Egg(s) (free range) whole
- 110 g Self-raising white flour
- ½ tsp Baking powder
- 110 g Butter (unsalted)
- 110 g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
For the icing
- 250 g Icing sugar
- 3½ tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tsp Water hot
- Yellow food colouring
For the buttercreams
- 110 g Butter (unsalted)
- 225 g Icing sugar
- ½ tsp Vanilla extract
- ½ tbsp Cocoa powder
- Pink food colouring
- Yellow food colouring
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Heat the oven to 170°C (fan 150°C, gas mark 3). Place paper cases in a 12 hole cupcake tin.
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Put all of the cupcake ingredients into a mixing bowl and whisk with an electric whisk until well combined. Alternatively beat well with a wooden spoon.
For this step you'll need:
- 2 Egg(s) (free range) whole
- 110g Self-raising white flour
- ½tsp Baking powder
- 110g Butter (unsalted)
- 110g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 1tsp Vanilla extract
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Spoon the mixture into the paper cases and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden and springy to the touch. Remove from the tin and place on a wire rack to cool.
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Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and gradually stir in the lemon juice and water until smooth and thick. Add a few drops of yellow food colouring. Spread the frosting over the cakes.
For this step you'll need:
- 250g Icing sugar
- 3½ tbsp Lemon juice
- 1tsp Water hot
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Beat the butter in a large bowl until soft. Sift in the icing sugar and beat well. Stir in the vanilla extract. Divide between 3 small bowls, leaving one quarter of the buttercream in the large bowl
For this step you'll need:
- 110g Butter (unsalted)
- 225g Icing sugar
- ½tsp Vanilla extract
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Sift the cocoa into one bowl and beat well. Add a drop of pink food colouring to another bowl and beat well. Add a drop of yellow food colouring to the third bowl. Spoon the buttercreams into 4 small piping bags and pipe ‘hair’ onto the cakes.
For this step you'll need:
- ½ tbsp Cocoa powder
- Pink food colouring
- Yellow food colouring
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Decorate the cakes as desired. Our recommendation is liquorice for the ‘eyes’, jelly beans for the ‘noses’ and chocolate buttons for the ‘ears’.