HOW TO MAKE MONSTERS INC CUPCAKES

SERVINGS: 12 CUPCAKES | COOK TIME: 20 MINUTES | DIFFICULTY: EASY

CUPCAKES

Ingredients

• 120g self raising flour
• 100g caster sugar
• 100g butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• food colouring: blue, green & purple

 

BUTTERCREAM

Ingredients

• 250g icing sugar
• 125g butter, softened
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp milk
• food colouring: blue, green & purple

 

YOU WILL ALSO NEED

• fondant icing: white, black & blue
• cupcake tray
• 12 cupcake cases
• piping bag & grass nozzle

LETS GO!

1. Pre-heat oven to 150ºC or 300ºF. 
2. In a large mixing bowl mix together the flour, sugar, butter, eggs, baking powder & vanilla extract until well combined.
3. Divide the mixture evenly into 3 bowls.
4. Add a few drops of food colouring into bowl and mix until dyed blue, green and purple.
5. Line a cupcake tray with cupcake cases. Fill the green cases 2/3rd full. 
6. For the Sully cupcakes, add 1 tsp of blue mixture, then 1 tsp of purple, another layer of blue mixture and finish with 1 tsp of purple mixture. 
7. Bake in the oven on 150C or 300F for 20 minutes.
8. To make the buttercream, add the icing sugar, butter, vanilla extract and milk to a large mixing bowl and beat until smooth and creamy.
9. Divide the buttercream into 2 separate bowls and with the food colouring dye blue, green and purple.
10. Roll out the fondant icing and cut out 1 large white circle, 1 smaller blue circle, 1 even smaller black circle and 1 tiny white circle. Stack them together the large white circle first, then blue, then black and top with the tiny white circle. 

TO DECORATE

Mike Cupcakes

1. Once baked and cooled, lets decorate.
2. Frost Mike cupcakes with green buttercream. Use a small spatula to smooth.
3. Place Mike's fondant eye right in the middle of the cupcake.

Sully Cupcakes

1. Place blue and purple buttercream in a piping bag with grass nozzle.
2. Pipe blue buttercream and small patches of purple buttercream onto cupcake.
3. Enjoy.