Do you also want to support your country in the World Championships soccer but want a cute snack too? Here's the solution
How to: World Championship Cupcakes
What do you need?
For the batter:
- 110 grams of butter on room temperature
- 110 grams of fine cristal sugar
- 2 eggs
- 110 grams of self-rising flour
- 1 teaspoon of yeast
- 1 tablespoon of milk
For the buttercream topping:
- 200 grams of icing sugar
- 100 grams of butter on room temperature
- About a table sloon of milk
- food coloring if you want color, depending on the desired colors
A mixer
Several bowls
Plastic gloves (for the food coloring)
A cupcake pan
Cupcake baking cups (12 pieces)
What to do?
Batter
- Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees.
- Place the baking cups in the cupcake pan.
- Mix the buttor until it's soft.
- Add the sugar, eggs, flour, yeast and milk and mix well again.
TIP! Hold a spoon with batter above the bowl and give it a light swing, if the batter doesn't slide off easily, you should add a little more milk.
- Divide the batter evenly accross the cupcake pan by the use of two spoons.
- Put the cupcakes-to-be in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes. They are done when they rose well and look golden-brown.
- Get them out off the oven AND the cupcake pan as soon as they are done.
TIP! If you leave them to cool off inside the cupcake pan, the baking cups will let go. Not good.
- Let them cool off entirely before you start decorating with the butter-cream frosting. Otherwise it will melt.
Butter-cream frosting
- Mix the butter until it's soft.
- Add the icing sugar and the milk and mix well again.
TIP! Start on the lowest speed level with the icing sugar if you like to keep your kitchen clean.
- When the butter en icing sugar are well blended, you can add color.
TIP! I bought my food coloring at the nearest toko (a store that sells all kinds of herbs, indonesion and other foreign supplies for food).
You can think of food coloring as paint. Do you want an orange color? Then you should find the right combination of red and yellow.
Since I decided to make both orange cupcakes and cupcakes with the Dutch flag, I needed orange, red, white and blue frosting. Of course there is no white food coloring, the buttercream frosting in its original look is already white.
- If you also decide to use different colors, divide the frosting evenly among several bowls, put on your plastic gloves and add coloring to them.
TIP! Start with only a drop or two for each bowl to avoid your frosting to be ruined right away. You can always add more, you can't take it back.
If you don't wear plastic gloves you run the risk of bright colored hands for the rest of the week, I speak from experience.
- Mix the frosting and the coloring with a spoon or mixer.
- Use a decorating bag to nicely decorate your cupcakes with the frosting. If you have never used one you might need some practice, but it gives the best result. If you rather don't use a decorating bag you can also use a large knife or a spatula to smear.
- You might want to add some decorating at the end. I chose for little dutch flags.
Have fun supporting your country!
The base of this recipe is from the book 'Cupcakes' by Janet Smith.
If you are looking for baking cups, decorations or other baking supplies, the following Dutch websites are a good source for ordering:
http://www.deleukstetaartenshop.nl/
http://www.taartendecoratie.nl/
If you have any questions about this recipe, just ask me!
Have fun!
Love,
Noes
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