Box Tops For Education Mini Cupcakes Recipes

BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION MINI CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (for all pans). Spray 60 mini muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Make cake batter as directed on box. Divide batter among 4 small bowls, about 1 cup each. Make 4 different colors of batter by adding 1/4 teaspoon food color to each bowl; blend well. Fill each muffin cup with 1 level measuring tablespoon batter, making 15 cupcakes of each color.
• Bake 11 to 14 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cupcake comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan. Cool completely, about 10 minutes.
• Top with frosting, and decorate with nonpareils. Store loosely covered.

MINI CUPCAKE BUFFET

Steps:

• Cook's Note: If you only have 1 mini cupcake tin, it is recommended that you mix up one batch of batter at a time and bake it off individually before mixing the next batter.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 3 (24-cup) mini cupcake tins with paper liners.
• Evenly divide the cake mix into 3 medium bowls. In each bowl, add 1 egg white, 3 tablespoons oil, and 1/3 cup of one of the juices. Mix each for 2 minutes until the batter is well incorporated. Scoop the batter into muffin cups using a mini ice cream scoop or tablespoon measure, filling each a little more than half full. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from the oven. When cool enough to handle, place the cupcakes on a wire rack to cool completely.
• In a medium bowl, beat together the butter with the softened cream cheese until combined. Slowly add in the powdered sugar until completely incorporated. Evenly divide the frosting between 3 bowls. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of one of the juices to each and mix until well combined. Add a couple drops red food coloring to the cherry flavored, a couple drops blue food coloring to the blueberry flavored, and a couple drops yellow food coloring to the pineapple flavored. Mix until well combined
• Place each icing into a resealable bag and snip off 1/4- inch from the bottom corners of each bag. Pipe each flavored frosting atop its corresponding cupcake. If the frosting becomes too soft, chill in the refrigerator until it firms up enough for piping. Garnish the top of each cupcake with its corresponding garnish.

MINI CUPCAKE CHOCOLATE BOX

Steps:

• Bake mini chocolate cupcakes in foil liners, then microwave store-bought frosting (milk and dark chocolate flavors) until runny and spoon the frosting on top of the cupcakes. (Place whole almonds on a few before you frost so they'll look like classic boxed chocolates.) Drizzle melted white or dark chocolate on top. Fill a heart-shaped box with the cupcakes.

"6TH BIRTHDAY" MINI CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line mini muffin tins with baking cups. Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and 1 teaspoon salt into a large bowl. Mix in eggs, warm water, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla, scraping down sides of bowl, until smooth, about 3 minutes.
• Working in batches, divide batter evenly among cups, filling each two-thirds full. Bake, rotating tins halfway through, until tops spring back when pressed with a finger, about 20 minutes. Let cupcakes cool completely on a wire rack.
• Using a pastry bag fitted with a fine star tip, pipe buttercream onto cupcakes to decorate.

MINI CUPCAKES FOR KIDS!

Steps:

• Mix together the vanilla cake mix, 3/4 cup low fat milk and 1 egg -- use a beater for at least 2 minutes until very well combined.
• Grease a mini muffin pan (12) and bake for 10 minutes at 170°C fan forced, or until when touched, they spring back!
• Turn out onto a cooking rack.
• Mix together icing with 1-2 table spoons of low fat milk.
• Add a few drops of food colouring to the icing if you would loke a particular colour on the cakes.
• Ice each one with 1/2 teaspoon of icing and sprinkle a couple of decorative hundreds and thousands on top.
• The kids will love them!

HEAVENLY SURPRISE MINI CUPCAKES

Steps:

• For filling, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and salt; mix well. Stir in the coconut, walnuts and chocolate chips. Set aside., For batter, in a large bowl, beat the sugar, water, oil, eggs, vanilla and vinegar until well blended. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into oil mixture until blended. , Fill paper-lined miniature muffin cups one-third full with batter. Drop filling by teaspoonfuls into center of each. Top with additional batter, filling muffin cups three-fourths full., Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cake portion of a cupcake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For frosting, in a small saucepan, melt chocolate with cream over low heat; stir until blended. Remove from the heat. Cool to room temperature. Frost cupcakes. Refrigerate leftovers.

DEVIL'S FOOD CUPCAKES FOR TWO

Steps:

• In medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, granulated sugar, brown sugar and cocoa with whisk until thoroughly combined. Add eggs, oil and milk; stir with whisk until smooth.
• Pour batter evenly into 2 (1-cup) microwavable coffee cups. Microwave on High about 3 minutes or until outsides edges are firm and centers are almost set. Watch to make sure the batter doesn't overflow (if it looks like it's about to overflow, stop the microwave until the batter settles back down, then continue to heat).
• Immediately sprinkle cupcakes with powdered sugar. Serve warm.

MINI VANILLA CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Line muffin cups with liners.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Stir together milk and vanilla in a small bowl.
• Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add egg and beat until just combined. Reduce speed to low, then add flour and milk mixtures alternately in batches, beginning and ending with flour and mixing until just combined.
• Divide batter among muffin cups, filling them two-thirds full, and bake until tops are pale golden and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in centers comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Invert cupcakes onto a rack and cool completely.
• For each color, transfer 1/4 cup buttercream to a separate small bowl and tint with food coloring (if using), then frost tops of cupcakes.
• *Wilton Paste Food Coloring available at wilton.com.

MINI S'MORES CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350˚F. Line a mini muffin pan with paper wrappers.
• Using a small ice cream scoop or a tablespoon measure, scoop the Devil's Food Cake batter into the prepared pan. (The batter should come halfway to two-thirds the way up the sides of the mini muffin wrappers.)
• Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, rotating the pan once halfway through, until the centers of the cupcakes spring back to the touch.
• Remove the cupcakes from the oven, let them cool slightly in the pan, then finish cooling them right side up on a wire rack until they reach room temperature.
• Repeat this process to bake the remaining batter, as necessary.
• While the cupcakes are baking and cooling, prepare the Marshmallow Icing, if you have not already done so. Set it aside.
• Once all the cupcakes have cooled to room temperature, fit a pastry bag with a large star tip and fill it with icing. Pipe a star-shape dollop of icing on top of each cupcake (see Filling a Pastry Bag and Piping, page 11). Repeat until all the cupcakes have been iced.
• Once iced, the cupcakes can be kept covered or in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours. Bring them to room temperature before serving.
• Just before serving, generously sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs across the tops of the iced cupcakes.
• Polish your look
• This recipe will also yield 15 to 18 standard-size cupcakes or a two-layer 6-inch cake, baked accordingly. To make S'mores Cake, ice chocolate cake layers with Marshmallow Icing and gently press graham cracker crumbs against the sides (see Blueberry "Cheesecake," page 123, for instructions on adhering cookie crumbs to the sides of cake).