Child care: The cupcake caterpillar

METHOD

How to make it

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   Important: Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature before you start!

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   Step 1 - Bake cupcakes:

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   Preheat the oven to 175gr and prepare the 2 baking tins with a paper baking tin in each hole.

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   Cut the butter into small cubes and put it in a large bowl. Mix the butter with a hand mixer while you add the sugar little by little. Keep mixing until you have a creamy butter. Then add the eggs 1 to 1 and keep mixing. You're getting a light batter because of this.

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   Then you add little by little the self-raising baking flour as you keep mixing. And finally, the milk. After this you mix for another minute and then the batter is ready. Quietly spat the discodip until it is well mixed.

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   Then fill with a spoon the paper trays for 2/3 full. Put the 2 baking tins in the oven for 15-20 minutes. The cupcakes are cooked when you put a satep trigger in it and it comes out dry. Then remove them from the oven and put them on a grill to cool off. If your cupcakes have become a little too big, put a cutting board on it for a moment. They'll be flat in a minute.

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   Let the cupcakes cool well.

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   Step 2 - Create butter cream:

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   While the cupcakes are cooling, you can make the butter cream. After preparation, do not put it in the refrigerator, as it becomes hard and is not workable in the syringe bag. So let's say you make the cupcakes at night and pick them up in the morning. Then leave the butter cream covered on the countertop.

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    Mix the cream, vanilla extract and salt in a small bowl. Take a big bowl and put the butter (in cubes) in here. Mix this soft and airy with the hand mixer. Then add the icing sugar little by little and keep mixing (and yes, then your whole sink becomes white, at least with me). When all the sugar is added add the cream mixture and mix for another minute or 3-4, until you have a nice creamy and fluffy cream.

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    Put the cream in a spray bag. I always put the spray bag in a measuring cup and then I can fill it well. Then I hold the bottom with 1 hand and turn the top closed with the other hand. You can apply pressure to the top and squeeze gently with your lower hand so that the cream comes out of the nozzle. Hold the nozzle straight above the cupcake and spray from the outside to the inside a nice tooth on it. Note: do not make the cupcakes until the cupcakes are completely cooled!

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    Step 3 - Decorating:

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    Take a large bowl and place a piece of 16 cupcakes on their side in the shape of a caterpillar. The head of the caterpillar is made of an upright cupcake. Make an extra large toffee with the butter cream.

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    The legs are made of pieces of bendable acid cables. Paste these with a small piece of double-sided tape to the paper shapes (left and right). Be careful with the food that the kids don't put bits of tape in their mouths!

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    The face is made as follows:

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    Make a mouth of a thin cut piece of acid cable. This is easily bendable so you can make it a laughing mouth

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    The nose is made of a little round candy

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    I made the eyes by cutting circles out of the pizza foam gums. You can also use other round candies

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    The 2 lollipops are placed at the top of the 'head' as 2 antennae

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    And tada! Your cupcake caterpillar is ready Enjoy your treat!

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    Thanks to Cupcake Recipes for the basic recipe for cupcakes and butter cream.