Moustache Cupcakes Movember
Can you believe that it's almost November, or should I say.... Movember!!! So for something a little bit different (and in the spirit of Movember), moustaches and cupcakes have overtaken the blog today...
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Servings: 12
Calories:
Ingredients
- 200 g unsalted butter softened
- 200 g caster sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- 200 g self raising flour
- 1 packet mini M&Ms
- Icing:
- 185 g butter softened
- 2¼ cups icing sugar mixture
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1-2 drops food colouring optional
- moustache cupcake toppers
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175 degrees celsius.
- Place cupcake cases into the holes of two 12-hole muffin trays.
- Place the butter, caster sugar, salt and vanilla extract into a bowl.
- Beat together with a stand-mixer or hand-held beaters until pale and fluffy.
- Add the eggs to a separate bowl and beat together lightly.
- Slowly add the egg mixture to the butter mixture while continuing to beat.
- When all of the egg mixture has been completely combined with the butter mixture, sift in the self raising flour and stir with a spoon until just combined (don't over combine).
- Place the cupcake mixture into the cupcake cases - filling them to ⅔ full.
- Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes or until golden and when they spring back when touched in the centre.
- Leave cupcakes in the baking trays for 5 minutes before moving to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Cut a hole in the middle of each cooled cupcake (not quite to the bottom). Discard the majority of the removed cake, keeping just a small slice for the lid.
- Fill each hole with mini M&Ms.
- Place the sliced cake lid of the cupcake back on top.
- To make the icing, beat the butter in a bowl until pale and fluffy (approximately 5 minutes).
- Slowly add the icing sugar mixture, milk, vanilla extract and food colouring (optional) and continue to beat until smooth and creamy (I divided my icing into 3 bowls and tinted each a different colour).
- Ice cupcakes when they have completely cooled and place a moustache topper onto the frosting.