Elmo And Cookie Monster Cupcakes

Elmo And Cookie Monster Cupcakes:

So today I'm off to deliver Elmo and Cookie Monster Cupcakes for Blake's 3rd Birthday. Raechelle, Blake's mum asked me the other week if i could make 40 cupcakes she wasn't fussed on what i made or what flavour witch is great creative freedom for me! Id been wanting to make Elmo and Cookie for a while now so whala!
I just chose a vanilla cupcake recipe as i thought id just keep in simple for the kids and i did a mixture of mini and large sized cupcakes as i know my four year old struggles to get through the larger cupcake size

To decorate I just used my regular frosting recipe ( butter icing sugar and milk) and tinted it to the colour i wanted i used a Wilton tip 234  to get the fur look the eyes are made out of fondant i use ( Bakels Pettnice you can buy this from the supermarket in the baking section) then i dotted the eyes and created the mouth using Wilton black ready to use icing that you can buy in a tube and simply just attach a coupler to the end of the tube and off ya go!

Making these guys was a bit time consuming and a little hard on the wrists but they were very fun to make and i ended up dreaming of Elmo and Cookie last night i even have that song C is for cookie playing over in my head haha!

Cupcake Brights

So tomorrow is the last day my almost four year old daughter is to finish daycare so i thought id make the staff and kids some cuppys to say thanks, i just wanted to do something simple as Ive got some birthday cupcakes to make this weekend and my parents are down for the long weekend to visit too and oh yeah and Ive only got 6 weeks to go before baby number two arrives!

So i made some Vanilla cupcakes this recipe came from "Divine Cupcakes" by Tamara Jane ( Tempt cupcakes) its quite a big recipe i got 48 mini cuppys and 12 Texas cuppys out of this batch .

Then i frosted with my usual butter icing then sprinkled with these cute rainbow choc chips that i got from Countdown the result was a big happy sweet rainbow - hope the kids like em!

Vanilla Cupcakes:

415g plain flour

3 teaspoons of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of salt

230g unsalted butter softened

330g sugar

1 tablespoon of vanilla essence

4 eggs

1 cup of milk

preheat the oven to 180 degrees

and line muffin tins with cupcake papers

whisk the flour , baking powder and salt together in a small bowl to aerate and combine

in a electric mixer best the butter till creamy then add sugar gradually beating until light and fluffy

beat in the vanilla and add the eggs in beating after each addition

add the flour mixture alternately with the milk

mix until smooth

bake for about 18 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clear

cool cupcakes the frost

Frosting:

300g butter softened
4 1/2 cups of icing sugar
few drops of vanilla essence
5-6 tablespoons of milk

beat butter till pale and fluffy
sift in the icing sugar and start beating add in the vanilla and slowly add in the milk ass needed till you get the consistency you need
split up the icing into separate bowls and go wild with the food colour!