#spring cupcakes

[muchmunchies]

A simple and tasty recipe for Spring!🪺

Find the recipe here.

[ahtheprettythings]

Carrot Cake Cupcakes

[sheenacooks]

Blueberry cupcakes:

Last week I tried something new and baked some blueberry cupcakes. The base I used is my usual vanilla cupcake recipe with added 400 g of blueberries, drained of juices as well as possible.

This was my first time baking blueberry cupcakes, so I’m glad they turned out well. This is how they looked fresh out of the oven. Due to the blueberries’ volume, this yielded 18 cupcakes.

All in all, they looked pretty nice! 

They were done in 30 minutes as usual, and there wasn’t any unwanted blueberry juice inside, either.

For the swiss meringue color, I didn’t use food coloring but added the drained juice of the blueberries, so even the cream had a nice blueberry flavor!

For the leaves - and for the flowers in the previous cupcakes - I used Sugarflair gel food coloring. I really recommend investing in good gel food coloring if you want strong colors. Especially in red, you’ll end up with pink if you buy liquid food coloring, or too loose/too sugary buttercream.

Except for yellow - for that, the coloring I used is your cheap, average liquid food coloring. Yellow colors well enough, you don’t need much of it.

The liquid food colorings can also be good for mixing color if you don’t plan on adding to much to the buttercream. You don’t want your buttercream to be too loose.

This is the shade of green I used here, very lightly to get the lighter end: 

You can find the base recipe here.

You can find the swiss meringue buttercream recipe I used here.

[sheenacooks]

These cupcakes were made a week ago when the first really good weather of this spring arrived. It was very fun to make these beauties! The dotted paper ones are simple vanilla base, the hearty paper ones are white chocolate.

I used American buttercream for the frosting and my favorite cupcake base recipe.

Recipe below the cut!

Base recipe (for 1 batch):

Ingredients:

1 egg

150 g butter, room temperature

150 g granulated sugar

1,5 dl milk

280 g all purpose flour

12 g baking powder (1 packet)

a pinch of salt

(for white chocolate cupcakes) 50 g white chocolate, grated

Preheat oven to 160 °C/320 °F if using convection oven, or to 180 °C/356 °F if regular.

Beat the egg and the sugar together until it’s light and fluffy. With an electric mixer, this should take 2-3 minutes on high. Once it’s fluffy, add the butter and mix well, then add the milk slowly. (It’s okay if it looks a bit soupy, or if the milk doesn’t mix well perfectly!)

Mix the flour, the baking soda and the salt in a separate bowl. Slowly (2-3 tablespoons at a time) start adding it to the wet mix while continuously stirring it on low. 3a. If making white chocolate cupcakes, add the grated white chocolate into the batter and mix well with the electric mixer. (You can also add white chocolate chips if you’d like, but I didn’t use them. The batter should have a strong white chocolate flavor from the grated chocolate.)

Pour the mix into forms. It should make 12 large or 14 medium cupcakes. Put 2-3 tablespoons of batter into the forms. For these cupcakes, I baked 14 pieces per batch. Bake for approximately 30 minutes. Check with a toothpick for doneness. This is a really reliable recipe - if the top is golden and the toothpick is clean, it’s done. The bottom will feel soft until it cools, that should be normal and no reason for worry!

Frosting:

This is the general American Buttercream recipe but here’s a quick rundown on how I make it.

Ingredients:

500 g butter, room temperature

500 g confectioner’s sugar (might not need all), sifted

2-3 tablespoon heavy cream

a pinch of salt

vanilla extract

Beat the butter on high until light and fluffy. Make sure you beat it thoroughly and you don’t have chunks stuck to the bottom. It should take about 3-5 minutes. Once beaten, add the salt and give it one more whip.

Add 2 tablespoons of heavy cream. (If too hard, more can be added after the sugar was mixed in to achieve the desired consistency.)

Start adding the sifted sugar, half a cup at a time, and mix on high until it’s completely incorporated. Do this until the buttercream holds its shape if you take a pinch of it but it’s creamy and not too hard. (If you add too much sugar, it will be very hard to pipe with.) Once you have the desired consistency, add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

If you want to color it, separate the buttercream into as many batches as you’d like colors. I used three colors for the flowers, so I divided it into roughly three batches, and put a smaller batch aside for the green. That was about 3 heaped tablespoons worth, since I didn’t plan on too much leaves or greenery.

Piping tips I used:

Purple flower and grass:

Pink and yellow:

Leaves:

[coordinationseriousedin]

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[learninghowtocook]

Spring Cupcakes

Yield: 12 Jumbo Cupcakes

Ingredients

3 cups cake flour (not self-rising), sifted

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature

2 cups, plus more for finishing sugar

5 large eggs

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1 cup buttermilk

Meringue Buttercream

2 cups cream-colored sprinkles

About 2 pounds assorted jellied-citrus slices

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.with a rack in the center. Line jumbo muffin pans with paper baking cups; set aside. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda; set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. With mixer running, add eggs and vanilla extract; beat until combined.

With mixer on low speed, add 1 cup reserved flour mixture; mix until combined. Add 1/2 cup buttermilk; combine. Alternate adding flour mixture and buttermilk, ending with flour, until all has been incorporated.

Divide batter evenly among baking cups. Bake until light golden brown and a cake tester inserted into middle comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Rotate pans halfway through baking. Transfer pans to a wire rack to cool.

To decorate, frost each cupcake with about 3 tablespoons buttercream. Gently press each frosted cupcake into sprinkles, rolling around so that entire surface is coated. On a lightly sugared piece of parchment paper, roll out jellied-citrus slices to about 1/8 inch thick. Use 3/4- to 2-inch gum-paste petal cutters to cut petals from the jellied-citrus slices. Use a 3/4- or 1/4-inch pastry tip to cut out the centers of flowers. Use the green citrus slices and a small petal cutter to cut out leaves for the flowers. Place citrus dots in center of cupcakes, and arrange jellied petals around each center to form a flower. Arrange leaves as desired.

[the-cupcakerie]

Sweet Spring Cupcakes

[worldpeacethroughcake]

Happy Easter!