Moustache Cupcakes
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I made my go-to vanilla and chocolate cupcakes, covered with a swirl of vanilla buttercream and black edible glitter.
The decorations were little presents, moustaches made from candy melts and sugarpaste letters/numbers. I love making cupcakes – they’re so stress free!
Moustache Cupcakes
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 three tablespoons of cocoa powder to turn these into 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
- sprinkles 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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