Rambling Rose Cupcakes Adorable Elegant Cupcakes Recipes

RAMBLING ROSE CUPCAKES - ADORABLE, ELEGANT CUPCAKES!

Steps:

• Make the cupcakes:.
• Heat oven to 325°F Line cupcake or mini muffin pans with papers.
• In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or in a large bowl and using a handheld whisk, blend the flour, baking powder & salt. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
• If using a stand mixer, add the milk, sunflower oil, egg yolks, rose water and lemon zest, & beat on low speed for one minute. (If using hand mixer, whisk together the wet ingredients in a separate bowl. ).
• Make a well in the flour mixture, add the egg mixture, and, using a spatula, stir the mixture for 30 seconds to fully combine all the ingredients. This mixture will be thick.
• In a clean metal bowl, beat the egg whites on medium speed until they hold soft peaks. Add the cream of tartar and sugar and beat on high speed just until the whites hold stiff peaks.
• Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the beaten whites and fold well to combine. Add the whites and pistachios to the bowl with the flour mixture and fold well to combine, making sure that there are no streaks left.
• Fill each cup of the muffin pan ¾ full with batter. Bake the cupcakes until they spring back to the touch and a toothpick comes out clean, about 10 minutes for minis muffins and about 15 minutes for regular cupcakes.
• Make the frosting:.
• Set the bowl of a stand mixer over a pan of simmering water. Add the egg whites and sugar to the bowl. Whisk the mixture until the sugar has dissolved, the whites are starting to thicken and turn white, and the temperature is about 110°F (You don't need to be exact - just whisk for about 2 - 2 ½ minutes and you should be fine.).
• Attach the bowl to the mixer. Using the whisk attachment, beat the mixture on high speed until the whites are completely cool - this will take about 8 minutes.
• (You can do this step and the next using a handheld mixer, but it will take a littke longer & be more tiring!)
• Once the whites are cool, add the butter one piece at a time, completely incorporating each piece before adding the next.
• When you have added almost all of the butter, the mixture will start to separate and appear curdled, but don't worry - just keep beating and add the rest of the butter, and it will come together. I promise. Continue beating until the frosting is smooth and silky.
• Add the rose water and 1 drop of the food coloring. Beat well to incorporate. The frosting should be a very pale rose pink color.
• Assemble the cupcakes:.
• When the cupcakes are completely cool, frost each one using a large angled star tip - to make the frosting look like a rose. If you dont have one, spoon some frosting on to the cupcake & swirl caredully with a fork.
• Decorate each cupcake with a dried rosebud or paper tea rose and sprinkle a little bit of the reserved crushed pistachios around the rosebud.

LAVENDER CUPCAKES

Steps:

• CUPCAKES:.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F; line a 12 count muffin pan with paper liners.
• Put the sugar and lavender flowers in a food processor. Process briefly to combine.
• Tip the lavender sugar into a bowl with the butter and beat together until pale and fluffy.
• Beat the eggs into the butter mixture, one at a time, then sift in the flour and fold gently. Stir in the milk, then spoon the mixture into the muffin cups.
• Bake for about 18 minutes until risen and golden and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
• DECORATING:.
• To decorate, gradually beat the confectioners' sugar into the egg white in a bowl, then add a few drops of food coloring and stir to achieve a lavender-colored icing.
• Spoon the icing over the cupcakes, then top each one with a sprig of fresh lavender or candy sprinkles. Let set before serving.

TURKEY CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Frost the cupcake, then press in a cookie "head", flat and vertically at the bottom center of the cupcake. Then press in two cookies, horizontally to the right and left of the cookie head to make the wings.
• Along the top of the cupcake, above the cookie head, press in a row or two of candy corn to make the tail feathers.
• Give the turkey one eye, by adding a small dot of white decorators to the cookie head, and then adding a small dot of black decorators icing over the white to finish the eye.
• For the beak, cut the white tips off of 24 candy corns. Place it on the side of the cookie head.
• To make the wattle, cut a 1 inch square of fruit leather. Roll it into a tube or cone and stick it in place over the beak.
• Now you have a cute, delicious and completely edible cupcake turkey!

MEATLOAF CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Place bread in a bowl.
• Add 2 cups milk and toss with bread. Reserve.
• In a sauté pan over medium high heat, add 2 tablespoons oil and sauté onions for approximately 4 minutes, or until they become translucent. Reserve.
• In a large bowl, use your hands to mix hamburger, eggs, thyme, parsley, salt, pepper, nutmeg, soaked bread, onions and ketchup.
• Set cupcake liners in a muffin tin, spray, and fill with meatloaf mixture.
• Smooth tops so that they are flat.
• Bake for 3/4 hours, or until fully cooked.
• Boil potatoes in a large pot of water until tender to the touch of a fork.
• Drain water and mash with butter and half and half. Mash until smooth.
• If coloring potatoes, divide mashed potatoes into 2 separate bowls. Add 1 tablespoon grated beet to one batch and all the parsley to the other.
• Blend until you have a batch of pink and a batch of green potatoes.
• When meatloaf is done, "ice" half with pink and half with green mashed potatoes.
• Sprinkle with Indian fennel candies and serve immediately.