Saturday 2 January 2010

Candy Cane Cupcakes

This is one of my entries at the Iron Cupcake December/Christmas challenge http://www.ironcupcake.co.uk/
The cake itself is a light, peppermint flavoured sponge. I alternated red and white sponge to create a candy cane effect.
I made a few variations of this during December mainly trying out different frostings and colours. I still can't decide if the red & green or the white frosting looks better. Any thoughts?












































For the cupcakes:
2 large eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1.5 tsp peppermint extract
1 cup plain flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 red food colouring

For the cream cheese frosting:
300g icing sugar, sifted
50g unsalted butter, at room temperature
125g cold cream cheese


  • Preheat oven to 180C.
  • In a large bowl, mix together the eggs and sugar until light and creamy.

  • Stir in milk, vegetable oil, vanilla and peppermint extracts.

  • In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.

  • Pour into wet ingredients and whisk just until batter is smooth.

  • Measure out 1 cup of batter and place it back in the medium bowl.

  • Add red food colouring to this bowl and mix well.

  • Put a spoonful of the white batter into each cupcake case. Put a spoonful of red batter in the centre of the white.

  • Alternate spoonfuls of the two batters until all the batter has been used up.

  • Bake for about 15 minutes until a tester inserted into the centre comes out clean.

  • Allow to cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.\I used cream cheese frosting - white/red/green and decorated with crushed candy cane and edible glitter.

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