About the bake
May the force be with you! These Stormtrooper cupcakes are a fantastic way of celebrating May 4th (or any event quite frankly!). Treat your friends and family. They are so easy to make!
Method
Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 180ºc/350ºf/Gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
Step 2:
Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale. Beat in the eggs a little at a time and stir in the vanilla extract.
Step 3:
Fold in the flour at the same time adding a little milk until the mixture is of a dropping consistency. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they are half full.
Step 4:
Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, or until golden-brown on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Set aside to cool.
Step 5:
For the buttercream icing, beat the butter in a large bowl until soft. Add half the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
Step 6:
Then add the remaining icing sugar with one tablespoon of the milk, until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
Step 7:
Spoon the icing into a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe the icing using a spiralling motion onto the cup cakes in a large swirl.
Step 8:
Add a marshmallow to the top and paint on a Stormtrooper face using an edible icing pen.
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- 110g Butter (unsalted)
- 110g Caster sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 110g Self Raising Flour
- 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
- 1 tbsp Milk
For the Buttercream
- 140g Butter (unsalted)
- 280g Silver Spoon Icing sugar
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
For the Storm Trooper
- 12 White marshmallows
- 1 Black icing pen
Utensils
- Cupcake case
- Piping bag
- Star nozzle
- Edible black icing pen
Recipe Reviews
Although it's only vegetarian if you buy vegetarian marshmallows
great recipe it was fun to make though perhaps a slight over dose on the buttercream
Great recipe went down amazing recommend this recipe to anyone who likes to bake😁🥰😁
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- 110g Butter (unsalted)
- 110g Caster sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 110g Self Raising Flour
- 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
- 1 tbsp Milk
For the Buttercream
- 140g Butter (unsalted)
- 280g Silver Spoon Icing sugar
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
For the Storm Trooper
- 12 White marshmallows
- 1 Black icing pen
Utensils
- Cupcake case
- Piping bag
- Star nozzle
- Edible black icing pen