It’s that time of year again, Halloween is fast approaching! So what better an excuse to bake some spooky treats? I present to you my latest creation: slime monster cupcakes (with a surprise in the middle)!
I’m really pleased with how these cakes came out and had lots of fun making them! Dean and I shot a step by step video for the recipe using our upcoming app, HeyFood. It makes your baking experiences so much easier!
I love adding a hidden surprise to my cupcakes and wanted to keep the slime theme going so opted for a blueberry compote; this balances the sweetness out with the icing and the crunch of the sugary eyes.
My mum said they reminded her of the monsters in the film Monsters Inc, which wasn’t my intention, but now looking at them the colours are the same as Sully! You can make your monster any colour you choose. I use these food colourings, and they were great. I hope you have as much fun as I did at making them!
Slime Monster Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 200 g caster sugar
- 200 g margarine/unsalted butter
- 4 eggs
- 200 g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Frosting
- 220 g margarine/unsalted butter
- 640 g icing sugar
- 2 tbsp milk If you need to loosen the icing
- food colouring
- sugar eyes
Blueberry compote
- 250 g blueberries
- 35 g caster sugar
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 2-3 tbsp water
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 190°C / fan 170°C / gas 5. Butter a 12 hole muffin tin.
- Cream together the butter and sugar with electric whisk.
- Add the eggs and mix.
- Add the flour, baking powder, vanilla extract and continue to whisk together until everything is combined.
- Divide the mixture evenly into the muffin tins and bake for 15-20 minutes. While the cakes are in the oven, make the blueberry compote.
- Add half the blueberries to a pan on a medium heat along with the sugar, lemon juice and water. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring often.
- Add the rest of the blueberries and cook for a further 5 minutes. Take off the heat and let the compote cool.
- Take the cakes out of the oven and transfer to a metal rack. While the cakes are cooling make the frosting.
- Cream the butter on its own for about 5 minutes on a medium speed.
- Sift the icing sugar into the creamed butter and then mix together on a slow speed. Gradually increase the speed until it forms a thick paste.
- Add the milk if needed, then whisk together for one minute.
- Separate the mixture into two bowls. Add the food colouring to each, stir in until you have the colour of your choice.
- Cut a hole out of the centre of each cake and place in a small amount of the blueberry compote.
- Put the two types of frosting into the separate sections of the piping bag. Pipe each cake and place on the sugar eyes.
- Serve and enjoy!
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