FOOD
Christmas Lights Cupcakes
Turn on your Christmas lights in the best way possible
Ingredients
- Cupcake:
- 200 grams Plain flour
- 45 grams Cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons Baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 100 grams Soft light brown sugar
- 180 grams Caster sugar
- 80 grams Unsalted butter
- 240 milliliters Whole milk
- 2 Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- Buttercream:
- 450 grams Icing sugar
- 150 grams Unsalted butter
- 35-40 milliliters Whole milk
- To decorate:
- Black icing pen
- Candy coated chocolate beans
Steps
- Preheat oven to 190°C. Sift the dry ingredients together into a bowl.
- In a separate bowl beat together the butter and two sugars until creamy.
- Meanwhile, in another bowl/jug whisk together the milk, eggs and vanilla extract.
- Add 1/2 of the wet ingredients into the butter mixture and mix on a slow/medium speed slowly adding all of the dry ingredients.
- Scrape down your bowl and beat in the remaining wet ingredients. Once mixture is smooth, evenly divide it into the cupcake cases.
- Bake in the oven for 18-22 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- For the buttercream sift the icing sugar into a bowl and beat it into the butter. Once sandy pour in the milk to combine.
- Beat for a good 5 minutes until the icing is paler in colour and is light and fluffy. Place the icing into a piping bag with a star tip and pipe swirls onto each cupcake.
- Using a black icing pen pipe a continuous squiggly line around the cupcake to look like the cable to the lights.
- Place chocolate beans along the black icing as christmas lights.
- Enjoy :D