The Best Easy Cupcake Recipes For Kids – National Cupcake Day

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Chocolate Butterfly Cakes – Easy Cupcake Recipes For Kids

Ingredients:

• 70g butter
• 70g sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• 100g self raising flour
• 30 – 50 ml milk

Buttercream:

• 100g icing sugar
• 100g butter
• 1 tbsp cocoa
• Sprinkles

What to do:

1. Wash your hands and put on an apron, ask a grown up to pre-heat the oven to 180c.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar until soft & fluffy.
3. Add in the egg and vanilla extract and beat well.
4. Once you have mixed the egg in, add the cocoa powder until the mixture is all chocolatey.
5. Fold in the flour, adding some milk if the mixture is a little stiff.
6. Put your cupcake cases into your tins and divide the mixture between each one.
7. Ask your grown up to pop them in the oven for approx. 15 mins until golden and springy to touch.
8. While your cupcakes are cooling mix together the butter, icing sugar and cocoa powder to make your buttercream.
9. Using a knife (you may want to ask your grown up to help you). Cut out a cone shaped piece of sponge in the middle of each cake.
10. Spoon or pipe the buttercream into the hole and carefully split the sponge bit in half, this will make your wings. Carefully add two butterfly wings to each cake on top of your buttercream.
11. Finish off with some sprinkles!

About Three Bears Cookery Club 

At Three Bears Cookery Club we teach children how to cook, explore foods, learn new skills, and develop independence in the kitchen.  We are passionate about all things baking and teaching children how to cook, giving them the opportunity to learn life skills in a fun and novel way.

Three Bears Cookery Club are a multi award-winning children’s cookery school and support the cooking & nutrition curriculum. We work in primary schools delivering our After School Clubs & curriculum classes. We also deliver online cookery classes and holiday workshops & you can learn new skills at home with our monthly baking boxes. Plus, we can host your child’s birthday party.

In each of our classes’ children will learn how to make a variety of sweet & savoury dishes using different techniques. We talk about where the ingredients come from and how we use them. At the end of each class, they will take home their creation plus the recipe card.

You can find out more about our classes and baking boxes by visiting our website www.threebearscookeryclub.com we do hope you will come along and join in the yummy fun!

Baby Owl Cupcakes – Easy Cupcake Recipes For Kids

Owls are cute, but baby owls are a hoot! These adorable owl cupcakes are sure to dazzle.

Help the owls see with sliced sandwich biscuits “eyes” and make them cute with chocolate chip “beak.”

Prep 20 min

Cook 15 min

Ingredients:

• 175 g Unsalted Butter
• 4 tbsp. Boiling Water
• 115g Self-Raising Flour
• 165g Caster Sugar
• 3 Eggs
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 40 g Cocoa Powder
• For the buttercream
• 60 g Unsalted Butter (softened)
• 3 tbsp. Milk
• 30 g Cocoa Powder
• 250 g Icing Sugar
• Oreo biscuits
• Chocolate chips

What you will need to do:

• Step 1 Heat oven to 200°C (400°F, Gas mark 6). Line a muffin tin with paper cases.
• Step 2 Sift the cocoa powder into a bowl, pour in the boiling water and mix into a thick paste. Add the remaining cake ingredients and mix with an electric hand whisk (or beat with a wooden spoon).
• Step 3 Divide the mixture equally between the 12 paper cases. Bake in a preheated oven for about 12-15 minutes until well risen. Cool in the cases on a wire rack.
• Step 4 To make the chocolate icing melt the butter and pour it into a bowl. Sift in the cocoa powder and stir in the icing sugar a little at a time to make a glossy and spreadable. If the icing is too thick, gradually add the milk until it reaches the desired consistency.
• Step 5 Pipe the chocolate icing over the cupcakes. Now it’s a fun part! Start decorating your owls, add “eyes” to help them see and “beaks” to look adorable. Enjoy!

About Enjoii Baking Box

Enjoii baking boxes are great for keeping your kids entertained and introducing them to the joy of baking.

Delivered to your door, they’re something to look forward to – and the perfect excuse to step away from the screens and make a nice family activity for the weekend.

A great variety of seriously exciting recipes and baking ideas for every child to enjoy.

Each box includes two yummy baking recipes, collectable recipe cards with easy to follow step by step instructions, all the dry and pre-measured ingredients you need for the recipes. You’ll get cookie cutters and piping bags when needed and a fun activity magazine for your children, packed with games, experiments, puzzles and more things to do while the bake is in the oven.

Available as one off purchase and on subscription basis.

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Lemon Meringue Cakes – Easy Cupcake Recipes For Kids

INGREDIENTS:

• 100g MARGARINE
• 75g CASTER SUGAR
• 2 EGGS
• 100g SELF-RAISING FLOUR
• ZEST OF LEMON or ESSENCE
• 3-4tbsp LEMON CURD
• 1 MERINGUE NEST,
• BUTTERCREAM

PREPARATION

• Preheat the oven to gas 4 or 180c (fan 160c).
• You will need a muffin tray and 6 paper cases.

2. CREAM

• Place the margarine into a bowl and soften it with the back of a spoon.
• Add the sugar and mix until it sticks to the bowl.
• TIP: If you can hold the bowl upside down without the mixture falling out, you have creamed enough.

3. CRACK THE EGGS

• Crack the eggs into a jug and beat with a fork.
• TIP: To crack the egg, tap it lightly on a table. If it’s not cracked have another go, but not too hard!
• Add the eggs slowly to the mixture, beating well after each addition. (Do not add them all at once-you will flood the mixture and it will curdle).

4. MIX

• Add in the flour and lemon essence/zest.
• Fold through gently with a tablespoon.
• Place a tablespoon of mixture into each paper case, if you have some mixture left, share it out between them.

5. BAKE

• Place them in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and spongy.

6. FILL

• Once the cakes are out of the oven, leave to cool.
• Once cooled, use a teaspoon and scoop a hole from the top of the cake.
• Fill the hole with lemon curd and press the sponge back on the top.

7. DECORATE

• Place a spoon of butter icing on the top of each cake. Crumble up the meringue and sprinkle over the top.

About Mrs Bun the Baker

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