welcome to howtocookthat.net I am Ann Reardon and today we are going to we are going to make
mickey mouse cupcakes that have the mickey symbol on top
and also inside out of yummy chocolate brownie mixture.
First we need to make our dark coloured chocolate brownie to go in the middle.
for the quantities of ingredients just go to the website howtocookthat.net
There's a link in the description below this video. Melt the margarine in the
microwave or on the stovetop.
and stir in your sugar,if you melted it one the stove
if you melted it one the stove you may have to wait for it to cool down if in the microwave it is probably
cool enough. Add you eggs
then your flour
and finally your cocoa powder and the baking powder
and mix it all together.
Line a tine with baking paper making the paper go over the edges so it is
easier to lift the brownie out when you have finished.
Pour in your mixture and spread it evenly
right to the edges
Bake that in the oven until a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean
that will take about 10 minutes.
now for about 12 cupcakes you only need half of this brownie mixture
so you can feed the other half to your kids.
if you've got kids
Take the half once it has cooled down and crumble it up into a bowl.
Add half a cup of your vanilla cake batter and
1/4 cup of water
and mix that altogether
now for your vanilla cake I have a simple vanilla cake recipe that I use.
you just put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix it up again that will be on the blog
if you just click on the link in the description below the video.
Take another spoonful
of your vanilla cake and put it in the bottom of
each of your cupcake cases.
then put
a small amount of your fudgey brownie mixture into you hand and roll it into a ball.
and put ti on top of your cupcake mixture
take some more of the brownie mixture and roll it into a snake.
and then make that into a circle and put it on top of the ball like a crown.
repeat that
for each of your cupcakes. So yes it is quite messy but I have
experimented with all different ideas of ingredients for this
inside and this one tastes yummy and
in my
books a recipe has to be not just look good it has to taste good. So continue to roll
the cake balls just keep wetting your hands and washing your hands off as you go.
Then take another scoop of your vanilla cake and just place a small amount on top of
each one it doesn't matter if the sides aren't covered but the top has to be covered
on each one the sides will get covered as the cake rises in the oven and it will
come around and join it on the top
Then place that in the oven and bake it for about ten minutes
or until they are firm on top
while you're waiting for your cup cakes to cool we're going to make our
toppers our mickey mouse toppers. So you need to draw a picture of a mickey logo.
one easy way to do that is just pull up a picture on your computer
screen
put a piece of paper over the top and trace it and put that underneath some
baking paper and put some melted chocolate in a ziplock bag
and pipe the outline of the shape and then fill it in.
You can leave some not filled in as well if you like the variety. And then remember to put a
little stem on each one
so that you can poke it into the frosting and still have the full mickey head
above the frosting level
to make our buttercream. Put your icing sugar and your butter into a bowl of an electric mixer
and mix on low speed until combined and then turn it up to high speed until it
forms a nice paste
and add one to four tablespoons of milk, it depends if you are using margarine or butter
how much milk you'll need, if you are using margarine probably just the one.
and whip it through until it looks light in colour and it's nice and fluffy.
I am using a piping bag with a start shape tip on it, if you don't
have a piping bag you can just use a ziplock bag , cut the corner off it and
pipe it on that way.
once your cupcakes are completely cooled
then pipe some frosting onto each one in a circular motion.
if you put them on while the cupcakes are still hot it's going to melt the butter in the
frosting and it is just going to slide off. So you need them to be completely cooled.
Take one of your mickey chocolate
cake toppers and place it into the top of each cupcake . Make sure that you are using
tempered chocolate so that it doesn't just melt as soon as it comes out of
the fridge
if you look in the description below this video there is a playlist called chocolate tutorials
and there is one there that explains what type of chocolate to use
for decorations and another on tempering chocolate
then you can take a cupcake and it doesn't matter which direction you cut
into it from you will have the mickey logo in the middle
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