Easter Chick Cupcakes
Round up your little chicks and have a cracking time making these adorable Easter Chick Cupcakes. They are super fun to decorate too.
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Ingredients
Cupcakes
110g unsalted butter, at room temperature
110g caster sugar
110g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
110g caster sugar
110g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
Icing
100g unsalted butter, softened
100g icing sugar, sieved
50g cream cheese
Yellow food colouring
100g icing sugar, sieved
50g cream cheese
Yellow food colouring
Decoration
Orange M&M’s
Black writing icing
Black writing icing
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180C/ 350F / Gas Mark 4.
- Line a muffin tin with paper cases.
- Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat until pale and fluffy.
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into the bowl.
- Beat the eggs and vanilla and add to the bowl. Beat until just combined.
- Spoon the mixture into the paper cases.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes until risen, golden and firm to the touch.
- Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the icing, beat all of the icing ingredients together until smooth.
- Add a couple of drops of food colouring until you get the yellow colour you want.
- Spread onto the cooled cupcakes.
- Use two M&Ms for the chick’s beak and draw on eyes with a black writing icing pen.
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