How to make delicious chocolate and vanilla cupcakes for a Peppa Pig party!
Course
Dessert
Cuisine
International
Prep Time30minutes
Cook Time30minutes
Total Time1hour
AuthorRecipe adapted from Taste.com.au
Ingredients
Chocolate Cupcakes
100gms– 3.5 oz. dark chocolate
250ml– 1 cup water
125gms– ½ cup buttersoftened
255gms– 1 ¼ cups brown sugar
3eggs
225gms– 1 ½ cups self-raising flour
75gms– ½ cup plain flour
30gms– ¼ cup cocoa powder
“Sky/Pond” and “Grass” Vanilla Icing:
125gmsbutter
225gmsicing sugar
1/2tspvanilla extract
Blue food coloring
Green food coloring
Fondant decorations
Instructions
Chocolate Cupcakes
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.
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.
Spoon among the lined muffin pans.
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:
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.
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).