Little Chick Cupcakes

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Get your kids to make these little Chick Cupcakes at Easter...
 

Chick Cupcakes 

Annabels Kitchen

Annabel’s movie about this book
  

Ingredients

Cakes
150g butter softened
150g caster sugar
2 large eggs
150g self raising flour
Half tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp mixed spice
50g peeled apple, grated
30g dried apricots, chopped finely
30g sultanas
30g golden marzipan grated

Icing
100g butter, softened
100g icing sugar, sieved
50g cream cheese

Decoration
Yellow fondant or marzipan for the chick
Black Writing Icing for the eyes
Mini Easter Eggs
 

Method

Preheat the oven to 180c / 160C Fan/ Gas 4. Line a muffin tin with paper cases.

Put the butter, caster sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder into a mixing bowl and beat together using an electric mixer or by hand. Add the remaining ingredients and beat again. Spoon into the paper cases.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until lightly golden and well risen. Leave to cook on a wire rack.

 

To make the icing, beat all of the icing ingredients together until smooth. Spread onto the cold cupcakes. 

Mould the fondant into the shape of a chick, draw on some black eyes using Writing icing and add a couple of mini Easter Eggs.

 

Information

Makes 12 Cupcakes