The kids love this recipe, these cupcakes have a really unique and cute look and have a wonderful taste. Pretty fun to make and perfect for kid parties!
Preparation Time: 45 mins
Cook: 14 mins
Additional: 1 hr 5 mins
Servings: 24
Ingredients.
- ½ cup milk
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 10 tablespoons white sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted
- 2 drops orange food coloring
- 48 small candy eyeballs
- 2 pieces dried mango
Preparation.
Step 1.
Combine milk and vinegar in a bowl. Let stand until milk curdles, about 5 minutes.
Step 2.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 24-cup mini muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.
Step 3.
Combine 1/2 cup butter, white sugar, and vanilla sugar in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Step 4.
Mix 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Alternate adding flour mixture and curdled milk to the creamed butter mixture, mixing until batter is well blended. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
Step 5.
Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted in the center of 1 cupcake comes back clean, about 14 minutes. Cool in the muffin tin for a few minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.
Step 6.
Combine cream cheese and 1/4 cup butter in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined. Mix in vanilla extract. Stir in confectioners’ sugar gradually. Color frosting orange with a few drops of food coloring.
Step 7.
Place orange frosting in a pastry bag fitted with a grass tip. Hold the pastry bag at a 90-degree angle 1/8 inch above the surface of a cupcake. Squeeze bag to form orange ‘fur’ by pulling tip up and away when the icing strand is about 1/2 inch high. Repeat to cover the cupcake evenly with fur.
Step 8.
Add 2 eyes to each cupcake. Cut dried mango into small strips and arrange into the frosting as ‘horns’.
