CARROT CUPCAKES + BUNNY BUTTS FIGURES TUTORIAL: EASTER RECIPE

 It’s been (VERY) difficult, but I managed to get a moment to prepare these Easter cupcakes.

We like them very much and I hope you like them too.

You can decorate them as you wish.

I used sugar paste figures, they are very easy and the bunny butts ones are explained step by step. I also used Cadbury ® eggs.

Ingredients:

Cake:

2 M eggs

90 g of brown sugar (3.2 oz.)

160 g of flour (5.6 oz.)

1,5 teaspoons of baking powder

½ teaspoon of grounded cinnamon

⅓ teaspoon of nutmeg

A pinch of salt

½ teaspoon of vanilla extract

80 ml of sunflower oil

160 g of carrots (5.6 oz.)

30g of ground pecans (1 oz.)

Cheese frosting: 

75 g of butter at room temperature (2.6 oz.)

60 g of cream cheese (chilled) (2.1 oz.)

150 g of icing sugar (5.3 oz.)

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Green food coloring 

Preheat the oven at 175ºC (345ºF).

Prepare the paper liners in the mold.

Peel and blend the carrots, reserve.

Mix the flour, the salt, the cinnamon, the nutmeg and the baking powder, sift and reserve.

Beat the eggs with the sugar and the vanilla.

Add half of the dry ingredients and mix.

Pour the oil and mix.

Add the rest of dry ingredients.

Finally, add the carrot and the pecans.

Distribute the batter into the paper liners and bake for 20 minutes, until a tooth stick comes out clean.

Leave them for 5 minutes in the mold, take them out from the mold and let them cool down on a rack.

Prepare the cheese frosting, put all the ingredients in the bowl and beat at high speed until it increases its volume (about 6-7 minutes).

Finally, put the frosting (cupcakes must be already cooled).

First, cover the cupcakes with a thin layer of frosting using a small spatula. Then, using a piping bag with a grass tip (put it making concentric circles starting from the external part).

Put the chosen decoration.

Here you have a little tutorial for bunny butts with fondant or sugar paste that are so cute. (the pieces are stuck with edible glue and the tail is made by covering it with edible glue and granulated sugar)

For the “soil” I used ground oreo®.

Happy Easter!