Piñata cupcakes recipe
These buttery vanilla cupcakes look simple from the outside, but hide a fun and colourful filling, piñata-style. Creamy white chocolate buttercream covers bright sprinkles inside - perfect for making with the kids or serving at a birthday party.
See method- Makes 12
- 25 mins to prepare and 25 mins to cook
- 543 calories / serving
Ingredients
- 175g unsalted butter
- 175g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 175g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
- 50ml milk
- multi-coloured star sprinkles
- silver crisp pearl sprinkles
- pink and purple hundreds and thousands
For the buttercream
- 225g unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 375g icing sugar
- 25g white chocolate, melted
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Shop ingredientsEach serving contains
- Energy
- 2275kJ 543.0kcal
- Fat
- 30g
- Saturates
- 17g
- Salt
- 0.2g
- Sugars
- 54g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 68.5gProtein 3.6gFibre 0.6g
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- Preheat the oven to gas 4, 180°C, fan 160°C. Line a muffin tin with 12 paper cases. In a bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla, then beat in the eggs, one by one, each with a spoonful of flour, until smooth. Fold in the remaining flour, then stir in the milk until just combined. Divide between the cases.
- Bake for 20-25 mins, until risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
- To make the buttercream, beat the butter in a bowl until pale and creamy, then add the vanilla. Add the icing sugar in 3 stages, beating between each addition, until fully combined. Stir in the melted white chocolate.
- Leaving the bases intact, use a teaspoon to remove a little of the sponge from the middle of each cake. Mix the sprinkles together, then spoon about 1 tsp into each hole.
- Spoon the icing into a piping bag with a round (1cm) nozzle and pipe a swirl onto each cupcake. Decorate with more of the sprinkle mixture. The iced cupcakes will last for 3 days in a sealed container.
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- As part of a healthy balanced diet, we recommend this recipe for a special occasion or treat.
