Monster Mini Cupcakes

Mini cupcakes are usually just the right size for most kids. These little monsters are made out of chocolate cupcakes baked from scratch. You will need a grass tip in order to create the fur. You can make them different colors by using other food colors.

• Preparation Time: 45 mins
• Cooking Time: 14 mins
• Total Time: 59 mins
• Calories: 163 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ cup milk
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• ¾ cup all-purpose flour
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• ¼ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
• ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 10 tablespoons white sugar
• 2 drops orange food coloring
• 48 small candy eyeballs
• 2 pieces dried mango

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Combine milk and vinegar in a bowl. Let stand until milk curdles, about 5 minutes.

Step 2

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 24-cup mini muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.

Step 3

Combine 1/2 cup butter, white sugar, and vanilla sugar in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Step 4

Mix 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Alternate adding flour mixture and curdled milk to the creamed butter mixture, mixing until batter is well blended. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.

Step 5

Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted in the center of 1 cupcake comes back clean, about 14 minutes. Cool in the muffin tin for a few minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely, about 1 hour.

Step 6

Combine cream cheese and 1/4 cup butter in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined. Mix in vanilla extract. Stir in confectioners' sugar gradually. Color frosting orange with a few drops of food coloring.

Step 7

Place orange frosting in a pastry bag fitted with a grass tip. Hold the pastry bag at a 90-degree angle 1/8 inch above the surface of a cupcake. Squeeze bag to form orange 'fur' by pulling tip up and away when the icing strand is about 1/2 inch high. Repeat to cover cupcake evenly with fur.

Step 8

Add 2 eyes to each cupcake. Cut dried mango into small strips and arrange into the frosting as 'horns'.