Trick or Treat Cupcakes
These Trick or Treat vanilla cupcakes are filled with a spooky hidden centre. Will you get the treat centre filled with lovely Halloween sprinkles or the trick centre filled with green lemon curd slime?
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- 145 g Caster Sugar
- 145 g Unsalted Butter or Stork
- 145 g Self-Raising Flour
- 3 Large Eggs
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
For the Buttercream
- 250 g Unsalted Butter
- 500 g Icing Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- Purple Food Colouring
- Halloween Decorations
For the Filling
- 200 g Lemon Curd
- Green Food Colouring
- Sprinkles
Instructions
To Make the Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160 Fan. Line a muffin tray with cupcake liners and leave to one side.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
- Add in the flour, eggs, baking powder and vanilla and whisk until all combined.
- Spoon the mixture into the cupcake liners. I use a small ice cream scoop to do this so I know that they are all even.
- Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. You will know the cupcakes are ready when they are golden brown and springy to touch.
To Make the Buttercream
- While the cupcakes are cooling make the buttercream.
- In a large bowl add the butter, icing sugar and vanilla and mix until it is all combined. Add in the food colouring a little at a time until it reaches the desired colour.
- Spoon the mixture into your piping and leave to one side.
To Decorate
- Once your cupcakes have cooled remove the centre of each one. Keep these centres as we will put them back in once we have filled the centre of the cupcakes.
- At the lemon curd to a bowl and add in the green food colouring a little at a time until it has reached the desired colour.
- Carefully spoon the green curd into the middle of six of the cupcakes. Pop the centre of the cupcake back in and leave to one side.
- To the other six cupcakes add your sprinkles to the centre. Pop the centre of the cupcakes back in.
- Pipe the buttercream onto the top of the cupcakes and decorate. I used fun edible eyes and enjoy!
Notes
- These cupcakes will last 3-4 days in an airtight container.
- You can fill the centre of your cupcakes with anything you want. Why not try sweets for the treat like M&Ms or Haribos?
- You could also dye the lemon curd different colours too why not try red?
- You can also use any colour of food colouring for the buttercream. I was trying to think of a Halloweeny themed colour.