Strawberry Crusha Cupcakes

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 

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.

No time for chocolate decorations ? Then add a straw along with your Crusha milkshake.