I did them myself! – JD, 4
We were nosing round the wonderful Multiple Mummy‘s blog a few weeks ago when we spotted a lovely idea: pink pig cupcakes.
We gave it a go with our own easy recipe – our version has white chocolate for the main topping along with a good dollop of creative license.
Here’s what we did:
Pink pig cupcake ingredients
- 80g margarine
- 100g granulated sugar
- 1 medium free-range egg
- 100g self-raising flour
- 1-2tbsp milk / soya milk
- 12 pink cupcake cases (ours were part of a multi-coloured set from Lakeland)
- A pack of pink buttons (again ours were from Lakeland)
- 100g white chocolate
- 100g icing sugar
- 2-3 drops of red natural food colouring
- 1-2 tbsp of warm water
- Icing pens and any other decorative bits you fancy
Pink pig cupcake instructions
- Cream the margarine and sugar together
- Beat in the egg
- Stir in the sifted flour
- Add the milk if the mixture is too thick to handle
- Divide between the cake cases
- Bake at 180C for about 15 minutes
- Cool completely on a wire rack
- To make the chocolate icing
- Mix the icing sugar with 1tbsp of warm water
- Melt the chocolate and stir in the icing mix
- Add a couple of drops of the food colouring until it turns pink
- Add the rest of the warm water if it seems too thick (it might just need warming again)
- Divide between the cakes straight away before it sets
- Once set, create snouts by icing two dots on a button and sticking it to the cake with a little more icing from your pen
- Ice on the eyes, smile and any other details you fancy (one of ours had a union jack nose)
- Finally, add two more pink buttons for the ears
Easy, fun and lots of room to be silly. We had loads of fun making these and they tasted delicious.
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Gorgeous and delicious! Congratulations to the cooks!
D’you think I could adapt it to make bunny-cakes??
Ooh yes, you could use the white choc icing minus the food colouring for the toping and for the ears you could use halved white chocolate fingers – you know the Cadbury ones? Then still the pink button for the nose then draw on the other details. Would love to see them if you do. We were thinking of trying other animals too e.g. a sheep!
Ooh they look fantastic will definitely try these! Thank you x
They look amazing. Well done JD!
These look great! My daughter loves anything “Piggie,” so I know we will surely be making these! Thanks so much for linking up! :-)))
Love these, will try them : )
These looks like an emoticon pig cupcakes! I like the one with the mustache. Looks so adorable.
Now they look much more professional than mine – how do you get you caked so flat and icing the perfect consistency! Fab! x
:) the cases are quite tall, so there was lots of space left once the cakes had risen. Then we just used a lot of icing, so it levelled out plus the icing was half white choc, so it was thicker, not overly sweet and easier to splodge on.
These are very cute – we’re having a farm themed week at the moment and I couldn’t decide what to make for baking you’ve solved the problem.
Thank you for linking up to Tuesday Tots it’s brilliant to see some more British Bloggers joining in :D