These are the cupcakes I made for my daughter’s birthday party. My kids have a very sweet tooth (they took this after their daddy! ;-P), so cupcakes are a must for their birthday parties. I love making them as I have great fun, especially deciding on the decorations and colours. I was not very adventurous with the flavours this time, as there were quite a few little ones at the party and I wanted to make sure they ate them… and you can’t go wrong with chocolate and vanilla! To make the chocolate cupcakes I used a new recipe and I liked it just as much as the one I usually make, so I am going to share it with you. These cupcakes include “real” chocolate and not only cocoa powder, so they are quite rich in taste. I decorated them with some simple vanilla icing and I made a few blue ones and a few green ones to symbolise the “sky/pond” and the “grass”. To complete them, I topped them with some fondant decorations: fluffy white clouds, ducks, suns, George Pig’s dinosaur and Peppa Pig’s face. Enjoy!
Peppa Pig Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes
How to make delicious chocolate and vanilla cupcakes for a Peppa Pig party!
Ingredients
Chocolate Cupcakes
- 100 gms – 3.5 oz. dark chocolate
- 250 ml – 1 cup water
- 125 gms – ½ cup butter softened
- 255 gms – 1 ¼ cups brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 225 gms – 1 ½ cups self-raising flour
- 75 gms – ½ cup plain flour
- 30 gms – ¼ cup cocoa powder
“Sky/Pond” and “Grass” Vanilla Icing:
- 125 gms butter
- 225 gms icing sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Blue food coloring
- Green food coloring
- Fondant decorations
Instructions
Chocolate Cupcakes
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Put the water and chocolate in a small pot and heat it on low heat. Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until the chocolate melts. Keep aside to cool down.
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Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until pale. Add the eggs, one at a time and keep beating. Add the flours and cocoa powder and stir until just combined. Now add the melted chocolate and stir well.
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Spoon among the lined muffin pans.
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Bake in a preheated oven at 160°C for 25 to 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool down.
“Sky/Pond” and “Grass” Vanilla Icing:
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Beat the softened butter for a few minutes and then incorporate the icing sugar, vanilla extract and the blue food colour. Mix well. Do the same for the green icing.
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Pipe the icing on the cupcakes and decorate them with the fondant decorations (I usually make these with my own stencils the day before and I let them dry before using them on the cupcakes).
These are simply adorable. Lucky daughter.