Bonfire night: How to bake realistic bonfire cupcakes
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Want to add some tasty treats to your bonfire night party?
Try baking! Fin, who won Junior Bake Off 2019 aged 13, stole the judge's hearts with his 'Winner Bakes It All' cake and now he's designed a showstopper you can make at home.
We've got Fin's recipe here for you, with a step by step video guide, so you can make these cute bonfire cupcakes to impress all your mates.
Ingredients
For the cupcakes:
140g melted unsalted butter
140g caster sugar
2 eggs
50ml vegetable oil (or just any flavourless oil)
115g self-rising flour
25g cocoa powder
陆 a tsp of baking powder
some hazelnut (or other)chocolate spread for the filling
For the buttercream:
250g of soft unsalted butter
500g icing sugar
Red, orange and tallow food colouring
For the decorations:
chocolate sticks
mini marshmallows
cocktail sticks
Method
First we need to wash our hands and preheat the oven to 170c
For the cupcakes mix together the butter, sugar eggs and oil until it is all one colour and smooth
Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powder into a bowl and fold them together with a spatula until there are no lumps of flour
Add the batter to a piping bag and pipe the batter into the cupcake cases and then place them into the oven to bake for 15 to 20 minutes, you will know when the cakes are baked when you can insert a cocktail stick into the centre and it comes out clean
Leave the cakes to cool on a wire rack until they are fully cool
Make a hole in the centre of the cakes and pipe in the chocolate spread until they are full
Place the cakes in the fridge until the chocolate spread has set
To make the buttercream whisk the butter until it is pale and then slowly add the icing sugar in stages so it does not make the buttercream grainy
Divide the icing between three bowls and add the colouring into the buttercream
Add the buttercream into three separate piping bags, with the red having the largest nozzle, the orange having the medium nozzle and the yellow having the smallest nozzle
Take the cupcakes out of the fridge and pipe the red buttercream in the centre of the cake and then pipe the orange on top of that and then the yellow on top of the orange so it looks like a fire
Poke 4 holes in the cupcakes for the chocolates to go in and place the chocolate into the holes and snap the excess off the top of them, do this to all of the cakes and set them to one side
Add some marshmallows onto the cocktail sticks and place them on the chocolates so they hold the marshmallows up
Finally you can enjoy these cupcakes and trust me they taste AMAZING !
Thanks again Fin! Are you going to try this bake? Let us know in the comments!
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