The Crusha Cat, Errol, has been spotted with his tongue out by a strawberry bunny cupcake; flavoured with Crusha Milkshake Mix . Who can blame him ? Strawberry flavour is the next favourite to chocolate in both shakes and cakes in our house. It's really easy to flavour the cakes and icing with Crusha and as a bonus it gives you a nice moist cake. Simply add 2 to 3 tablespoons of Crusha to the batter and icing and a little bit of food colouring to deepen the colour, so easy and so yummy bunny!
So cute bunny chocolate moulds from ebay. I like these ones with the paws !
Your favourite cupcake recipe, I've posted mine below, plus your Crusha.
Suddenly you may have a lot of bunnies on your plate.....
If strawberry isn't your favourite then lime and raspberry work really well in cupcakes too.
Check the end of the recipe!
Ingredients:
250g Butter
250g Caster sugar
4 Large eggs
260g Self raising flour
3 - 4 tbsp Crusha Strawberry Mixa
A few drops of red colouring
Optional inside filling
1 Jar Strawberry Conserve
1 Jar Marshmallow Fluff
500g Icing sugar
250g Butter
250g Butter
3 - 4 tbsp Crusha Strawberry Mixa
A few drops of strawberry red colouring
Decorations
Chocolate bunnies or straws
Method:
Preheat oven 160c/140c Fan/325F/Gas Mark 3.
This makes 18 large muffin type cupcakes.
Cream the sugar and butter together. Beat in the milkshake mix. Whisk in the eggs one at a time. Fold in the flour . Add colouring to achieve a light red batter. Batter should not be runny but fall off the spoon or ice-cream scoop gently into the cake cases.
Bake in the centre of the oven until risen and a skewer comes cleanly out. Check after 20 minutes.
Optional extra: Remove centre and fill with 1/2 tsp jam or a 1/4 tsp of strawberry marshmallow fluff and a 1/4 tsp jam. Replace cake centres.
Mix simple buttercream, beat butter until soft and creamy and then add icing sugar gradually. If it gets too stiff add some milkshake mix a tbsp at a time. Finally add the colour. Spoon into piping bags and pipe onto cakes, decorate.
