a lucky charm cupcake suprise using an easy vanilla cupcake recipe
Baking

Lucky Charm Cupcake Surprise

With St Patrick’s Day just around the corner, I wanted to create a fun and playful cupcake recipe that was simple to follow and a perfect addition to the celebrations. The recipe creates a fluffy vanilla cupcake with a vanilla buttercream topping, sprinkles and a hidden golden surprise!


Ingredients – Cake

  • 200g butter
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 250g self-raising flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • Green gel food colouring

Ingredients – Buttercream and Decoration

  • 150g butter
  • 400g icing sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp. milk
  • Colourful sprinkles
  • Golden crunch sprinkles

butter+sugar

Step 1

Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees (fan).

Cream the butter and sugar.


cake+mix

Step 2

Whisk in the egg and vanilla extract.


cake+mix

Step 3

Sift the flour and baking powder and fold into the mixture.


green+cake+mix

Step 4

Using a small amount of green gel food colouring, mix thoroughly into the cake mixture.


green+cake+mix

Step 5

Fill 12 cupcake cases to 3/4 full of the green cake mixture.

Bake for 14 to 17 minutes then allow to cool.


Hole+cupcake

Step 6

Cut a small shallow hole from the top of each cupcake. You can also cut of any excess on the top if they are slightly uneven.


golden+crunch+cupcake

Step 7

Fill each hole with golden crunch sprinkles.


whisk+butter

Step 8

To make the buttercream, whisk all the butter for at least 5 minutes. Add the vanilla extract and whisk for a further minute.


icing+sugar+butter

Step 9

Slowly add the icing sugar through a sift and whisk after each addition.


buttercream

Step 10

Add the milk and whisk thoroughly.


1m+piping+nozzle

Step 11

Put an open star piping nozzle into a piping bag (I used Wilton 1M) and fill with buttercream


swirl+buttercream+cupcake

Step 12

Pipe a classic swirl onto each cupcake.


cupcake+sprinkles

Step 13

Add colourful sprinkles to the top of each cupcake.


lucky+charm+cupcake+suprise

Finished!

Your cupcakes are now ready to enjoy!