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Cookie Monster cupcakes

Whip together these cupcake treats that feature one of our favourite childhood characters.
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Course Dessert

Ingredients
  

Vanilla Cupcakes

  • 125 grams unsalted butter softened
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 cup milk roughly 185ml

Cookie Monster Decorating

  • 200 grams unsalted butter softened
  • 2 1/2 cups icing mixture
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • blue food colouring
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • 1 packet white marshmallows
  • 1 tube black writing icing
  • 12 chocolate chip cookies 1/2 per Monster with a few for breakage

Instructions
 

Baking the cupcakes

  • Preheat oven to 180°C. Place muffin papers in one 12-hole muffin tray or cupcake papers in two 12-hole cupcake trays. In an electric mixer, beat butter for 2 minutes until pale in colour and creamy. Add sugar one third at a time, beating well between each addition. Add the eggs one at a time, beating for about a minute between each addition. Add the vanilla essence and beat until combined.
  • Sift flour and baking powder and add half to butter mixture with half the milk, mix until well combined. Repeat with remaining flour and milk.
  • Fill cupcake papers ¾ full (an icecream scoop is perfect for this). Bake muffin size cupcakes for 20-25 minutes and small cupcakes for about 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Transfer to wire racks and allow to cool completely.

Creating Cookie Monster

  • Using an electric mixer, whip the butter until it is pale. This will take at least 5 minutes on high. Gradually add in the icing mixture and vanilla until well combined.
  • With the mixer running, add in food colouring until you get to the Cookie Monster colour. This may be a lot if you are using liquid food colouring or a little if using gel food colouring. Add in the milk and mix until the frosting puffs up.
  • Fill a piping bag with a fluted nozzle and pipe on icing. With the writing icing, place black spots on the marshmallows for pupils. Place on each cupcake.
  • Cut cookies in half and place in “mouth”.
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