St Patrick's Day Cupcakes

Mixture: 20 mins

Cooking : 20-25 mins

Cooling: 30 mins

Icing: 20 mins

Equipment:

3 Mixing Bowls

Sieve

Jug/Cup to beat the eggs in

Wooden Spoon

Fork

2 Teaspoons

Muffin Tray

Cooling Rack

Icing Syringe

Knife

10-12 Bun Cases

Thin Paint Brushes

Mixture:

• 6oz caster sugar
• 6oz self raising flour 
• 6oz stork butter
• 3 eggs 
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

1) Pre-heat oven to 170 degrees

2) Sift the flour into a smaller bowl using the sieve

3) Beat eggs with the fork in the jug or cup.

4) Cream together the butter and sugar until fluffy and light with wooden spoon in a large mixing bowl. 

5) Alternating between flour and egg add a bit at a time to the butter and sugar and mix well. 

6) Add the vanilla essence and mix.

(If you want the cake to really rise add half a teaspoon of baking powder to the mix)

7) Put the bun cases in the muffin tray and fill each about 3/4's full using a couple of teaspoons.

8) Put in the oven for approximately 20-25 minutes. 

You could make the butter cream whilst the cakes are cooling.

Buttercream:

• 150g Stork Butter
• 350g Icing Sugar
• 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence

1) Cream the butter in a mixing bowl using a wooden spoon.

2) Sieve the icing sugar a little at a time into the butter and stir.

3) Add the vanilla extract and food colouring and give it a good stir.

4) Use a knife to put the buttercream in the icing syringe.

Decorating:

• Yellow and Orange M&Ms
• Food Colouring (Variety of colours)
• Gold Edible Glitter
• Cupcake Picks

1)Once the cupcakes are cool, cut out the center of the cupcake (not all the way down) :

Cut out

2) Fill the hole with yellow and orange M&M's and put the cake lid back on:

Fill with orange and yellow M&Ms

3)Now use a large star nozzle on an icing syringe and ice the cupcakes upwards so that the icing is in a mound. 

4) Get different food colorings and apply them to the buttercream using a paint brush to give a rainbow effect.

5) Use cupcake toppers and finish with gold edible glitter. Voila:

Single Cupcake

Cupcake Toppers

Inside the cupcake