Kermit Mint Chocolate Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 8 plain chocolate sponge cupcakes in paper cases (preferably home-made)
- 40 - 50 g unsalted butter, softened
- 175 g - 200 g icing sugar, sifted
- 1 - 2 tsp hot water
- 2 - 3 drops peppermint extract
- A little green food colouring (paste or gel is best)
- 16 white Mentos or Softmints
- A little black 'writing icing'
Accompaniment
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Description
The design is not mine, but I had to share as it is such fun and so simple to do. Mint choc cakes are a family tradition. Maybe I should call them Kermint?
Method
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Make the buttercream icing by beating together 40g butter and 100 g icing sugar. Add a teaspoon of hot water, beat again, then add another 75 g icing sugar, and more water if needed (may need up to 1 tbsp). Beat in the peppermint extract. Taste and check for consistency, and add more butter / sugar / water / peppermint if needed. Add a little green food colouring and beat again until the buttercream is uniform in colour. Add a little more colouring if needed to get the shade that you want.
Spread about a tablespoon of icing onto each cupcake, adding more as needed.
Take the Mentos / Softmints and pipe a black line with a dot in the middle onto each one to make the eyes. This can be tricky if the icing is not coming out of the tube very easily (as in my case) - warming it in a cup of hot water for a minute can help a bit.
Place the eyes on the cupcakes, quite wide apart and at a slight angle.
Squeeze the front of the cake just slightly to make it less round and more of a Kermit the frog shape!
Smile and enjoy!
Chef's Tips
For cupcakes, see my basic cupcake recipe, and make a chocolate version, or use my 'extra special chocolate cupcake' recipe. Of course, any cupcake flavour can be used if you don't want chocolate. Another fun option is to flavour the sponge with mint, and you can even make it green.
If you don't want mint icing, leave out the peppermint and just use green food colouring.
You could make up your own black icing for the eyes, and pipe on with a piping bag or a freezer bag with the corner snipped off.
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