Battenberg Cupcakes
These Battenberg Cupcakes are just utterly scrumptious. They have a pink and yellow marbled cupcake, a hidden marzipan centre and pink and yellow almond buttercream, topped with a mini-Battenberg.
Servings: 12 Cupcakes
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- 145 g Caster Sugar
- 145 g Unsalted Butter or Stork
- 135 g Self-Raising Flour
- 3 Large Eggs
- 1 tsp Almond Extract
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- Pink Food Colouring
- Yellow Food Colouring
For the Buttercream
- 400 g Icing Sugar
- 200 g Unsalted Butter
- 1 tsp Almond Extract
- Pink Food Colouring
- Yellow Food Colouring
For the Decoration
- 150 g Ready to Roll Marzipan
- Mini Battenbergs
Instructions
To Make the Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160 Fan. Line a muffin tray wit cupcake liners and leave to one side.
- In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
- Add in the flour, eggs, almond extract, and baking powder and whisk until all combined.
- Split the mixture equally into two bowls. In one bowl add the yellow food colouring and to the other add the pink. Add the food colouring a little at a time, mixing between each addition until you reach the desired colour.
- Spoon the mixture into the cupcake liners.
- I did one tablespoon of pink and then yellow alternating between colours.
- Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
- You will know the cupcakes are ready when they are golden brown and springy to touch.
- Leave to cool completely.
To Make the Buttercream
- In a large bowl add the butter, icing sugar and almond extract and mix until it is all combined.
- Split the mixture evenly between two bowls.
- In one bowl add the pink food colouring a little at a time, mixing in between each addition until you reach the desired consistency. Leave to one side.
- With your second bowl of buttercream add the yellow food colouring a little at a time, mixing in between each addition until you reach the desired consistency.
- Cut a strip of clingfilm and lay It down on your work surface, gently spread the pink buttercream along the clingfilm. Spread the yellow buttercream beside it.
- Roll the cling film up and tie off both ends.
- Cut one of the ends and put the clingfilm into your piping bag. Leave to one side.
Putting it All Together
- Using a cupcake corer remove the centre of the cupcake.
- Pull a little ball of marzipan off and roll it into a ball.
- Push it into the centre of your cupcake until the hole is completely filled.
- Pipe the buttercream onto the top of the cupcakes.
- Cut your Battenberg's into three and place each on top of one of the cupcakes.