Wand-derful Harry Potter Cupcakes!

Get it? Wand-derful? As in wonderful? But with wands!

I am a huge Harry Potter nerd and I thought it was about time that I tried to make some cakes that were Harry Potter themed. These cakes were super easy and I personally think they look awesome! Dobby approves! If you'd like to decorate your cakes like this too you will need;

- Red, orange, yellow and black food colouring
- 110g Unsalted Butter
- 400-500g Icing Sugar (your call)
- 1 tsp of Vanilla essence
- Red Candy Melts
- Black Candy Melts - (Or white chocolate and use the black food colouring to dye it black!)
- Grease proof paper!

Method

1. Whisk up a batch of cakes using your favourite sponge mixture. I made a total of eight cupcakes - the seven in the picture were the best ones! (If you would like to use my cake mix it can be found on my most recent cupcake post - which can be found on the 'BAKING' tab at the top of the screen).

2. Once your sponge mixture is all mixed and done - put a little amount of the mixture in a separate bowl. Dye the majority of the mix orange and the minority red. This is just so the sponge goes with the Gryffindor colour scheme. I attempted (it didn't work out good) to make half of my batch polka dot and the others striped. If you'd like to try this too firstly place the orange mix in your cupcake cases so that each cup has orange in, then with a piping bag start either placing very small dots or thin lines.

3. Put your cupcakes in the oven for their required time!

4. Whilst the cupcakes are in the oven (or you can do this while they are cooling its up to you) go onto google and get some images for both the lightning bolt scar and Harry's glasses - get enough lightning bolts to go on one half of your batch and then the same for the glasses. I therefore copied four lightning bolts and four pairs of glasses. Put them on a word sheet and print it out. Then get a sheet of grease proof paper and cover the print out. Also make sure they are a good size so they wont get lost on your cakes!

5. Melt your red candy melts and put them into a piping bag (I just use a disposable one) and snip a little bit off the end of the bag, this this will make sure that you will get nice thin lines of chocolate and also make it easier to trace your pictures. Use the red chocolate to go over and fill in the lightning bolts. If you have some red chocolate left over make some little lightning bolts to accompany your glasses (this looks really cool!).

6. Then melt your black candy melts (Or your white chocolate with black food dye) and do the same step with the piping bag. This time outline the glasses, making sure each line is connected otherwise when it comes you decorating it will all fall apart... and no one wants that. (That would be like 'getting killed or worse.. expelled') Once you've done all the lightning bolts and the glasses, leave them for around 10 minutes at room temperature and then put them in the fridge until you need them again.

7. Onto the butter cream - put your 110g of unsalted butter into a bowl and mix with an electric whisk until it is pale and creamy.

8. Then gradually sieve in your icing sugar (i.e. add a bit in mix it, add a bit in mix it, etc) I normally use 400g however the recipe I follow says to use 500g. 400g works fine for me but its your call! ^_^ If after you have sieved in all of your icing sugar the butter cream is a little dry just add a little bit of milk or water to loosen it up.

9. Add in your 1 tsp of Vanilla Essence.

10. Add your yellow food dye to your butter cream mix. Then place the butter cream into a piping bag and pipe your butter cream on top of your cake. Make sure you go from the very edge round into the middle. This will allow orange/red sponge to be a little Gryffindor surprise! Then simply take your chocolate decoration and place them carefully to the centre of your cupcakes!

And as if by magic you are done!

These cakes would be perfect for any Harry Potter fan (like me!) and would be exceptionally good for parties as they are so simple to do. Also, I'm sure Harry, Ron and Hermione would like these cakes too!

I hope you enjoyed my little post about my Harry Potter cupcakes - I'm ever so proud of them because I've been waiting and waiting to make some Harry Potter cupcakes - but I guess I just wanted to do my favourite books and films justice! If you do have a go at this design please let me know as I would love to see them! But thank you all the same for taking the time to have a nosey at this post - I really appreciate it.

As always have a lovely day.. or evening!

Ricicle x

POWERPUFF GIRL CUPCAKES! (With homemade marshmallow fondant!)

'Sugar, spice, and everything nice, these were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls...'

Okay, so maybe the sugar, spice and everything nice was more like caster sugar, flour and eggs - buuuuuuuut we still have three perfect little girls - Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup - they're just in a more edible form! 

So this idea started when I decided I wanted to have a go and making my own fondant icing! And after having a good ole' google it seemed that marshmallow fondant was the way to go - and 'thus the powerpuff girl cupcakes were born!' (get the reference? heh) The Powerpuff Girls was one of my all time favourite TV shows when I was younger, I had all the toys, played all the games and people used to compare me to Bubbles a lot - she was my favourite too which made it even better! Basically I HAD to try and make some cupcakes powerpuff themed!

If you'd like to make my powerpuff girl cupcakes you will need -

FOR THE CAKE - 
- 110g Self Raising Flour
- 110g Caster Sugar
- 110g butter (I use Stork!)
- 2 eggs
- 2-3 drops of Vanilla Extract
- Food colouring - (Blue, Green and Pink!) I use ProGel!

FOR THE FONDANT - 
- 450g little marshmellows
- 600g-900g icing sugar (reason I put it between 600-900 is because when I made the fondant I only used 600g and it turned out fine however the recipe I followed said 900g!)
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract!
- 1 1/2 tbsp cooled boiled water
- Food Colouring - (Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange, Red, Black, & Peach)
- Some white fondant - (just in case your homemade fondant goes pink - if you used pink marshmallows!)

+ I used some Betty Crocker butter cream for the fondant just to ensure it was all stuck together!

HEADS UP -  I just thought I'd better mention that these cakes are quite time consuming. For me these cakes took up two days - so be prepared! But have fun! 

♥ METHOD ♥ 

(For this recipe I wont put pictures on detailing the cake mixture - if you are unsure for the cake mix on how it should look my previous posts (Whimsical Rainbow Cupcakes + Cute as a button cupcakes) have the cake mix well photographed ^_^) I'll still put the recipe on here so don't worry! Okay so lets fight crime by making some powerpuff girls!

FOR THE CAKE - 

1. Pre-heat your oven to 180ºC/350ºF/Gas Mark 4.

2. So first things first you will need to cream your 110g of caster sugar and 110g of butter together until it looks nice and fluffy & lightly coloured!

3. Beat your eggs in a separate bowl and then add them to your mixture gradually - at this point you can add in your vanilla extract too!

4. Now you'll need your 110g of Self Raising and sieve it into the mixture gradually (add some, fold it in, add some, fold it in - the cycle continues!) For folding I normally use a spatula as it just guarantees that every bit of the mixture has been dealt with and it also makes it easier to get every little bit of the mix into the cupcake cakes!

5. And that's the mixture itself done! (Yay) Now you need to split your mixture roughly into 3 bowls, and add the different food dye's to the different bowls. So one bowl with have blue cake mix, one will have green and the other pink!

6. Now all there is to do is to put your coloured cake mix into the cupcake cases! You can use whatever colours you like however I used 2 yellow and 1 blue for Bubbles, 2 orange and 1 pink for Blossom and 3 green cases for Buttercup! This is only because it fitted with with the PPG theme!

Nine Powerpuff Girls coming your way!

Normally this cake mixture would make 12 perfect cakes however because of how I wanted the decoration to look I wanted them to have a domed appearance on the top so I added more mix into the cakes than normal. (I hope I worded that right..)










7. All there is to do for now is to put your cakes into the oven for 15-20 minutes! My cakes are normally done around the 15 minute mark however they have been known to need a little more. Basically just keep an eye on them after 15 minutes! ^_^

♥ 15 minutes later... ♥

And here we have nine coloured cupcakes! Now it's time for the fondant! Dun dun dun! 

♥ THE FONDANT ♥

Remember when I said this recipe would be a little time consuming? This is where it happens! But its fun and we like to try things so lets go! Also, this is the recipe I followed as it was my first ever time making my own fondant! Aaah!

1. So to begin with you need to put your 450g of marshmallows into a microwaveable bowl and put in the microwave for 30 seconds. (this filled up my entire bowl and after microwaving it didn't appear like anything had happened - so don't worry if yours does the same!)

Look at all those marshmallows! (I might have pinched one or two to eat... sh!)

2. Now add the vanilla extract and the 1 1/2 tbsp of cooled boiled water. (I literally boiled it and put it in the freezer for a like a minute) Then grab a spoon - put some butter on to grease it - and stir the mixture so far. (The reason you need to grease it is because it goes SO sticky)

3. Put your marshmallows into the microwave for another 30 seconds and keep doing this until the marshmallows have all melted and are nice and smooth. (so basically heat in microwave, stir the mixture and see what its like, repeat if need to). I tallied the time I did this step and I had to put my marshmallows in the microwave three times until it was nice and smooth. 

 <- In mid melt!

<- All melted (and in a different bowl)

4.  Gradually add in the icing sugar ('stirring after each addition'). For this step I added the icing sugar in 200g intervals and even that seemed a lot. I tried to fold it in the best I could have and then proceeded to add another 200g. The recipe I followed said to use 900g of icing sugar but by 600g I had icing sugar that was not going into the mixture at all and my fondant seemed to be pretty firm anyway, so I just used 600g of icing sugar in the end. However it is up to you and whether you want to go all in for the 900g or cut it a little short is your call! (Sorry, that step was a bit 'waffley' wasn't it?)

5. So in the recipe I followed it said to 'grease hands and work surface. Turn out and knead until smooth and no longer sticky' - I didn't do this. (Rebel) All I did was treat it like a normal fondant and I sprinkled icing sugar on my work surface and onto my hands and kneaded it that way. It worked out fine however I provided the actual recipes step so you can follow it in whatever way you wish. ^_^

<- My fondant! 

6. For the normal recipe this is where your marshmallow fondant is done! However because we are making powerpuff cupcakes we need to add some colour to this fondant! Here is where the food dye comes in. First of all split your fondant into the amount of colours you want to use - so for me I had to split it into 8 chunks (I kept the biggest chunks for the main colours - blue, pink and green!). Add a colour to each chunk and knead it in. This step can get messy for your hands so be prepared!

<- And there are all my colors! (I think I needed to knead some of the colours in better in retrospect - but hey for a first time it wasn't bad right?)

7. And now you are done for the day! Wrap up your fondant tightly in some clingfilm and place in a airtight container and leave to firm up overnight!

♥ DECORATION ♥

And here we are! The last and most frustrating (but fun) part! I will show you guys how I made my favourite powerpuff girl (Bubbles) and then you can just simply follow the steps regarding the eyes and background for the other girls. (Just remember to change the colour). This was my first time making my own fondant and this was my most ambitious idea ever regarding cakes so some of the steps may not be done in the best way it can - but here is how I made these super cakes! 

1. So Bubbles - the 'joy and laughter'. Her main colour is blue and that was the first colour I used in order to make the background for the faces. I kneaded my fondant first just to get it all soft again and then rolled it out until it very thin. (Simply so when they were eaten no one would get a big mouthful of fondant!)


Once it's all rolled out and smooth you need to cut out a circle (or three as that's how many Bubbles' there will be in total) that fits nicely over your little cake. I luckily found something that was exactly the right size.

Then put a little bit of butter cream on your cake (So it acts like glue) and pop your circle on the top!

                                                           

                                                           Like this ->

2. Put the blue fondant away for now but keep it nearby as you will need it again for the eyes. However for now you will need the peachy colour fondant as this will be the face. Cut out a circle that is smaller than the circle you did for the blue - as you want the face to sit nicely in the middle - not so its squished in. Cut out nine of these circles. You can use the other 6 for Blossom and Buttercup!

(This reminds of that episode of Doctor Who where people had no faces? Anyone?) 

3. This is where it gets 'fiddley'. For this step I used an edible black pen (these can be purchased at Hobbycraft) and drew on the outline for the face. I drew where the hair would be and the mouth and also filled in the black parts of the eyes. If you don't have a edible pen the same can be done with your black fondant - it will just be a little harder. 

Left - The just drawn out face. Right - the filled in with icing faces!

4. This is where you need to bring back your blue fondant and also get the white. With the blue fondant first get a teeny little bit of fondant and make a little sausage shape big enough to fit in the outline you have drawn - or iced - on your eye. Do this again for the white. For the pupil I made a hole and then made a little white fondant ball and simply put that where I made the hole. Do this carefully as if you have filled in the black with edible pen it may not be dry yet. (I realised this too late and one of my Bubbles went a bit smudged!)

5. Next step is the hair! Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures during this process (Sorry) But Bubbles' hair was pretty simple! For the fringe I cut out two almost 'tear' shaped pieces of yellow fondant and fitted them into the outline I had drawn on the face. (If it doesn't stick on by itself use some butter cream to help glue it on!') And then all that's left was the pigtails. Which again were like a tear shape just more curved at the ends. (I'd recommend using a image for reference).

6. And that's a Bubbles face done! All there is to do is to put a little bit of butter cream on your blue background and stick the face on! The pigtails might also need a little bit just to ensure they stay where they should be! I also used a icing instrument (but you can use anything with a sharp pointy end) to place little dots around the edge - simply for no other reason but just to add a little 'something'.

AND NOW YOU HAVE DONE A BUBBLES!

You can use the same steps for the background, faces and hair for both Blossom and Buttercup. Just make sure to use their colours and their hairstyles. (Also Buttercup tends to have a more angrier looking face), But hopefully I've shown you the basics! (I've tried my best hehe) 

P.S. When making the circles for the background - I made a sort of triangle shape (for each colour) so that when they are all together with a cake at the top they look like they are flying. (in the style that the powerpuff girls would fly!) Like this; 

Cool huh? 

So that is it! I really hope you enjoyed my powerpuff girl cupcakes post - I tried my best to make it seem as simple as possible and I'm sorry if there were any mistakes or confusing parts! I am personally really proud of myself as these were my first attempt at fondant faces and my most ambitious cakes to date. I felt they came out really good and were better than what I could have imagined! 

Yet again thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy your own Powerpuff Girl cupcakes! Maybe we should make some Rowdyruff Boy cupcakes too... 

Have a lovely day.. or night!

Ricicle x

P.S. I am now on Bloglovin'!

POWERPUFF!

'Cute as a Button' Cupcakes (with edible buttons)

Eeee hello there! Today I made these super cute button topped cupcakes - with edible buttons! (How cool is that?!)

I think they would be perfect for parties, as a little gift or for just a bit of fun!

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If you'd like to make these adorable little cakes you will need;

FOR THE CAKES - (This cake recipe is my usual cupcake mix - I used it last time in my 'Whimsical Rainbow Cupcakes' post and the link to the recipe is on there. I will list everything you will need to mix and do on here for ease but just remember the original recipe is on that post! ^_^  ♥)

Anyway - for the cakes you will need;

- 110g Butter or Margarine (I used Stork)
- 110g Caster Sugar
- 100g Self Raising Flour
- 2 Eggs
- 2-3 Drops of Vanilla Extract


FOR DECORATION -
- 110g Unsalted Butter
- 500g Icing Sugar
- 1tsp Vanilla Extract
- A little bit of milk if you need it
- Pink Food Colouring (I use Pro Gel Rainbow Dust)
- Writing Icing
- Candy Melts! (I used blue and yellow candy melts but any colours of your choosing will look equally as cute - if you'd rather keep it simple you can also use just plain chocolate!)

And here we go! (Just remember that the original recipe for cake mix can be found in my 'Rainbow Cupcakes' post) Photo's will be posted alongside the steps to give you a vague idea of what it should - sort of - look like!

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1. First of all you'll need to preheat your oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4. You can also at this point place you're baking cases into a cupcake tin. (I normally do this step right before the mix is completed, but its completely up to you!) 

2. Now you'll need to cream together the 110g of butter and 110g of caster sugar until the mixture is light, creamy and fluffy! Like this;

3. Once this step is done you'll need to beat the two eggs in a separate bowl and then add that to the mix. This should be done gradually. Once the eggs have been added then mix in either two or three drops of Vanilla Essence. 

<- You should have something that looks a little bit like this.














4. Now you'll need to sieve in the 110g of self raising flour. For this method I normally fold in the flour with a spatula as I know that way every bit of the of the flour will be added into the mix. (It also makes it a lot easier to use all of the cake mix when it comes to putting it into the baking cases as you don't waste any)

All mixed in and ready to go into the cupcake cases!















Step 5. Finally all that is left for the cupcakes is for them to be added into the baking cases! You can either do this in spoonfuls or by piping them in. I used to do the piping method as it did allow the mix to go in a lot neater however I just opt for adding the mix in spoonfuls now - purely for speed.

Here are my cupcakes before going into the oven. I used brightly coloured baking cases as I wanted every bit of the cake to stand out colour wise. However of course - the choice is up to you! ^_^








Step 6. Your cakes will need to go into the oven for around 15-20 minutes or until they are a nice golden colour. Normally my cakes are pretty much ready by 15 minutes, but sometimes I have needed to leave them in up until the 20 minute mark. Best advice is to just keep an eye on them and keep checking!

And that's your cake mix done! You should be left with some pretty yummy looking cakes - but they're not done yet! They need some decoration! 

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1. What I did firstly for the decoration was to make the chocolate buttons. (This can be done while the cupcakes are cooling) For this step I used a silicone button mould that I purchased recently (from the Range) and the chocolate coloured candy melts in the colours blue and yellow. You can use normal chocolate if you'd rather or different colours!

These are the candy melts and my silicone button mould!

2. The next step is to then melt your chocolate - this step for me was a bit of a estimated guess as I didn't know how much chocolate would be needed for my silicone mould. It was a bit of a trial and error but my best advice would be start with small amounts of chocolate first. Its easier to start with a little and add more than to use too much and waste it! Unfortunately my camera lost charge at this point so I don't have any pictures of this step. Sorry :(

3. Once you've melted your chocolate and poured it as best you can into the mould you'll then need to leave it at room temperature for around 10 minutes, then put it in the fridge for however long you need.

4. Now it's time for the - dun dun dun - buttercream! For the buttercream I actually had the help of THIS recipe. What you need to do firstly is to add the 110g unsalted butter into a bowl and cream together until it is light and creamy. Like this; 

5. Then you'll want to add in the 500g of icing sugar and gradually sieve and beat it into the creamy butter. For this I also used a spatula, its my weapon of choice when it comes to anything that needs a thorough mix!

^ Above is how my buttercream looked after the addition of the icing sugar!

6. Add in the 1tsp of vanilla essence and mix well again. At this point you can also add a little bit of milk if you need too to help loosen your mixture. But if you don't consider your buttercream ready for some serious colouring!

^- And that is the kind of colouring I am talking about! How amazing does that look! 

7. Okay so for this step add in only a small amount of pink food colouring (you can add more if you need to) and mix this into your buttercream until you have a colour that you are happy with. When you are, its time to grab a piping bag and get ready for piping! 

Ready for battle - of the cake variety!

And here are how your cakes should look - or something similar! All colourful and fun!

8. Once your cakes have the buttercream on, its now time to get your chocolate buttons out of the fridge and very carefully popped out of the silicone mould. If there are any parts of the chocolate that are sticking out you can just carefully slice them off with a knife.

^ Above is a photo of me just taking my chocolate button out of the mould. And to the right is a photo of all of my lovely colourful chocolate buttons! (I was really excited at this point)












9. All that is left is to simply add to the buttercream with your chocolate buttons, place them anywhere you like and however many you want on each cake. Either way they will look super adorable.

To the left is some button ideas that I tried out just to see how they would turn out. The far left one is done simply by placing some normal cake sprinkles in the mould before I added the melted chocolate. It left me with a very funky polka dot button! The other button has the same sprinkle method for the spots, however I used some writing icing to give of the effect that its been sewn onto the cake! Cool huh?

And that's it! You should hopefully have some 'Cute as a button' cupcakes!

I am so happy with these cakes - they turned out better than I could have hoped! Thank you for taking the time to read and if you do make these adorable cakes please let me know as I would love to see them!

As always sorry if there were any spelling errors or confusing parts, this is my first ever post where I add my own instructions so I hope it was okay. Any advice or tips would be appreciated! But anyway, thank you for reading regardless!

Have a wonderful day and I hope to see you soon! ♥

Ricicle x

P.S. Just as a disclaimer I am in no way a professional baker, baking is just something I enjoy to do in my spare time. ^_^ 

Whimsical Rainbow Cupcakes! (with pictures)

A.K.A. my best attempt yet using food colouring!

Okay so I know I said I'd tell you some facts about me today but I was so excited from creating the blog that I really just wanted to get started with a cake post. (Sorry - but I will tell you some facts about me soon) 

I wanted to show you guys these colourful cupcakes that I made a few days ago - they remind me of one of my favourite childhood books - The Cat in the Hat. I don't really know why but hey ho!

(I like polka dots - can you tell?)

How cute are they?! I was so impressed with the colour both on the butter cream and the sponge itself as when I've tried to do it before the colour didn't turn out quite the way I'd have hoped. Coincidentally it was my third time trying this out so third time lucky guys!

So anyway that's all I really wanted to show you but if you'd like to know how to make these cakes I'll provide everything I used and did below!

The recipe I use for the sponge has always been my go-to cake mix, I've used it for a few years and after some practice every batch is a good batch of cakes! If you would like to follow the sponge mix I use CLICK HERE, but by all means if you have a preferred method then go ahead and use that. Its once the sponge mix is all ready to go that we can have the real fun.

Once your sponge is ready to go you will need to get your food colouring! I really wanted to use rainbow colours so I opted for red, orange, green, blue and pink - however you can use as many or as little colours as you want. Now, regarding food colouring I have never had the best experiences, they have either turned out looking mouldy or just not bright enough for my liking, however recently, I stumbled upon Pro Gel rainbow dust and that will forever be the food colouring I use for future bakes. (Its brilliant!) Anyway - split you're sponge into however many colours you are using, e.g. if you are using 5 colours, use 5 bowls. And then add a small amount of your dye in each of the bowls and mix!

Once each bowl is properly mixed add in your colours to your cupcake cases. There are two ways for you to do this;

1. The first method is to add a colour and then flatten in down so the colour touches each edge of the case - so from a side view it will look stripy. I tried this for the cakes in the pictures above and it worked fine but some of the colours from a side view looked very thin. For example - 

   

   This is what I mean - you can see lots of orange and red however not so much of the blue! 

2. The second is to simply just throw the colours in at a time - making sure they don't mix with each other obviously. Since making the above cakes I did try this method and personally I thought it looked better both on the side and when you took a bite out of it! Here's a example picture of what I mean for the second method. -

Literally just throw them in! (Ok maybe not literally)

So once all this colour lark is done with put them in the oven for around 15-20 minutes - for me the cakes are done for bang on 15 minutes.

And voila! - Colourful cakes!

The next part for me - usually - is very 'faffy' and that's the butter cream. For these cakes I used the Betty Crocker Vanilla Butter cream Style Icing and again just split it into as many colours as I wanted and mixed them in with the colours. For the butter cream I used orange, blue, pink and green as I wanted colours that would really stand out against each other. Once this is done its then time for the piping bag! Dun dun dun!

For this magical method I actually have one large piping bag which is split into 3 small bags, so I can add my different colours and connect them all together and then the three colours come out nicely (I swapped between the green and blue colours). I purchased mine at Hobby craft but I'm assuming there are some elsewhere! However (I am yet to try this) but I have read and seen on videos that you can achieve the same affect by using one piping bag and adding in the colours individually by rotating the piping bag so they don't touch. When all the colours are in the piping bag just simply push down and begin decorating like you usually would. There are plenty of videos explaining this method in better detail than I can. 

Once piping is done you will have cupcakes that (hopefully) look playful and colourful! You can either choose to leave them as they are or if you are like me you can decorate them with some white pearl balls - or anything! 

Just as a disclaimer I am not a professional baker by any means - nor do I claim that this is the best method for achieving these cakes. I just enjoy baking in my free time and wanted to share with you my excitement for my first successful food colouring attempt! Thank you for reading and if you do try making these cakes please let me know! 

Again sorry if there are any spelling mistakes or badly worded sentences, I'm new to blogging and although I'm very excited to be doing just that I'm a tad bit anxious, hence any mistakes or 'waffley bits'. 

But thank you for reading and have a lovely day!!

Ricicle x