40th Birthday Cupcakes – Blue with Musical Notes
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I made a batch of vanilla cupcakes and decorated with a swirl of blue buttercream icing and silver edible glitter.
I then added ’40’ cut out from black sugarpaste/fondant, which I sprayed with silver food spray. I then piped on musical notes with black royal icing.
40th Birthday Cupcakes – Blue with Musical Notes
This is my tried and trusted vanilla cupcake recipe. Makes 24 cupcakes. I use an ice cream scoop to get equal quantities of cake mixture per case. Add 3tbsps of cocoa powder to the cake batter to make chocolate cupcakes
Ingredients
For the cupcakes[br]
- 335 g unsalted butter softened
- 335 g caster sugar
- 335 g self-raising flour
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 6 eggs
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
For the buttercream icing
- 500 g unsalted butter room temperature
- 500 g icing sugar
- 1 tbsp milk or lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- food colouring optional
- food glitter optional
- toppers optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175C/Gas 4.
- Place 24 cupcake cases into tins.
- Put all of the ingredients into a mixing bowl and beat with an electric whisk for 3 minutes until smooth, pale and fluffy.
- Divide the mixture between the cupcake cases. (see notes above)
- Bake for 20 minutes until golden and risen.
- Leave to cool in the tin for a few minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before decorating.
To make the buttercream
- Add the softened butter to a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer.
- Slowly sift in the icing sugar until combined.
- Whisk in the milk (or lemon juice) and vanilla extract. Then add a few drops of food colouring at a time to get the desired shade. Add some food glitter to the mix too.
- You should find that the buttercream will form stiff(ish!) peaks and can be used in a piping bag.
To assemble
- Only decorate the cupcakes when they are completely cool.
- Place some of the buttercream icing into a piping bag with a star nozzle attached (don’t overfill the bag) and pipe a swirl on top of each cupcake.
- Sprinkle with more food glitter or sprinkles.
- Add a topper if desired.
Nutritional information is always approximate and will depend on the quality of ingredients used and serving sizes. If you need exact calories and macros, please do your own calculations.
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claire sen
January 27, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
my husband is a musician and turns 40 next week. I think this post was meant for me! :D
Michelle Ordever
January 27, 2014 @ 2:27 pm
Happy birthday to your husband! If you end up making musical cupcakes, don’t forget to share them with me!