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Pirate Cupcakes, aaargh!
Genna from work has a friend that absolutely LOVES pirates and asked me to make her some cupcakes for her birthday – fun!
She let me choose the flavour so I used my amended red velvet recipe again (with the cocoa swapped with custard powder & no food colouring) with little pirate themed fondant decorations on top.
custard cupcakes
ingredients
- 250g plain flour
- 2 x 15ml T custard powder, sifted
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 100g soft unsalted butter
- 200g castor sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 175ml buttermilk
- 1 tsp cider vinegar or other vinegar
method
- Preheat oven to 170°C and line a muffin tray with paper cases
- Combine the flour, custard powder, baking powder and bicarb in a bowl
- In another bowl, cream the butter, and sugar until light and fluffy
- Beat in the vanilla extract
- While still beating, add one spoonful of dried ingredients, then one egg, followed by some more dried ingredients, then the other egg, followed by the rest of the dried ingredients
- Beat together the buttermilk and vinegar
- Fold into creamed mixture
- Spoon the batter evenly into the cases
- Bake for 20 mins or until cupcakes spring back when lightly touched
- Transfer to a wire tack to cool down completely before decorating
buttery cream cheese icing
ingredients
- 400g icing sugar, sifted
- 125g cream cheese
- 125g soft unsalted butter
- ½ tsp caramel essence
Beat all of the above ingredients together until smooth then pipe onto the cupcakes.
decoration
To create pirate themed decorations to go on the top of each cupcake I rolled out coloured fondant and used some miniature shape cutters & sculpturing/modeling tools. Then to glue parts together I used sugar glue.
