Easter Cupcakes

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE !!! :D

Today I decided that I would like to share with you a recipe that I tried out yesterday. I decided some weeks ago that I would like to bake some Easter cupcakes for my family as presents. So here’s what I did:

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon baking powder
50 gram butter
1 egg
200 gram flour
120 milliliter milk
1 small packet vanilla sugar
160 gram sugar

for the frosting:

1 packet “Sahnesteif”
250 milliliter whipping cream
100 gram sugar

These are all the ingredients you need for a “basic cupcake”. I decided to refine my Easter cupcakes with white chocolate, lemon peel and to the cream for the frosting I added green food coloring. My idea was to create a cupcake with a frosting that looks like an Easter nest. So on top I put M&Ms because they give the impression of being small eggs. :)

Let’s start!

Step 1:

To get the dough you have to mix the sugar with the vanilla sugar first. Then you have to beat the egg, the sugar and the butter until fluffy. Then add the milk little by little.
Preheat the oven (180°degrees)

Step 2:

Next you have to mix the flour with the baking powder and stir it in the butter/egg/sugar/milk mixture.
Now it’s time to add all the other ingredients you would like to have in the dough. So I cut white chocolate into small pieces. I added them together with lemon peel.

Step 3:

 

Now fill the cupcake liners (only half). Bake it for 20 – 30 minutes.

Step 4:

To do the frosting you have to whip the cream and add sugar and “Sahnesteif”. If you like to give the cream a color like I did you have to add the food coloring now.
Put the cream into an icing bag and start decorating your cupcakes.

And here’s a picture of what they looked like in the end! Delicious :D