Christmas is creeping up on us fast and before you know it the big day will be here, so why not be prepared! What i always remember about Christmas is my mum spending hours in the kitchen baking all our favourite cakes. But it doesn't have to take hours! and with the easy cupcake recipe below you will have luxurious Christmas cupcakes in no time at all.
These cakes are made to look like wonderfully decorated Christmas trees, but you could do any design you wanted with the frosting. Such as angels, Santa, presents, celebrities etc, all you have to do is add different coloured meals colourings and get creative.
So lets start with the ingredients:
150 g butter, softened 150 g caster sugars 3 free range eggs 150 g self-raising flour 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the butter icing frosting:
200 g butter, 250 g icing sugars 1 tsp vanilla extract green food colouring
To decorate the cupcakes:
Hundreds and thousands
So here is the method on making 12 quick and easy Christmas cupcakes.
1. Preheat the stove to 180C or gasoline mark 4
2. Cream collectively the sugars and butter in a new bowl until light and fluffy.
3. Blend in the eggs one at a time adding a handful of the flour with every egg to stop the blend from curdling and stir through the vanilla extract
4. Place 12 papers cupcake cases into a muffin tin or onto a baking tray and spoon the mixture evenly into each.
5. Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden and spongy. If the cakes spring back after you have touched them they are ready so leave them to great...
6. For the frosting: in a combining bowl beat the butter with a spoon or spatular until smooth, then start to stir in the icing sugars making sure there are no lumps. Add the vanilla extract. The frosting should be light and creamy.
7. Mix your green food colouring into the icing.
8. Once the cupcakes have cooled, pipe the icing onto them starting from the outer edge of the cake and operating into the middle. Be sure to build up the icing so it is tall as you go into the middle to create tall Christmas trees. Decorate with hundreds and thousands (as they look like baubles) then allow to set for around half an hour.
And there you have it, wonderful, tasty, quick Christmas cupcakes for the whole family to enjoy!
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