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Kiddies cup cakes


Disney edible cupcake discs
It ALL started with these cute little edible discs I found at the local supermarket. They were little disney characters. My nephews 1st birthday was coming up and I wanted to do something really special, so I bought a batch of the edible characters and started doing my research on cup cakes. I finally found a recipe for a marble cake.

Ingredients
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup full cream milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup cocoa powder

Preheat oven at 150degrees and grease line 12 cup oven tray with cup cake liners.
Add all ingredients together in electric mixer and mix until everything is combined. If you are not using an electric mixer, combine all the dry ingredients first and then add the wet.
Separate the mixture into half and add the cocoa to one half. I normally add 2 table spoons more of vegetable oil to the cocoa mixture to allow the cocoa to mix properly.
Add spoonfull of vanilla and then cocoa, and then a little more vanilla. I normally then take a toothpick and make a swirl to finish it off.
Bake for 15 mintues, until a knife inserted comes out clean. Let it cool for a short while and then remove from the tray. Cool completely before you frost them.

Marble cupcakes
I used home made butter cream. I do not have exact measurements as I added as I went along however I did take only 100g unsalted butter and around 1 1/2 cup icing sugar. I also added 2 table spoons or so of milk to make the combination mixable.
Frosted and ready to be transported
I generously coated the cakes in the butter cream and placed the disney discs in the middle. I rolled the exposed areas of the buttercream on the cupcake in the hundreds and thousands sweets I emptied into a bowl.
Look at how happy they are!
Everyone enjoted these cupcakes. It brought out the kid in every adult at the party. Yes, I was satisfied that I did bring Happiness to those around me. Needless to say I would have to give my nephew another year to grow for him to let me know how good they are!!! :-)

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