Crocodile Cupcake Cake
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Recipe type: desserts
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Serves: 26
 
a 'crocodile' cake made up of individual cupcakes
Ingredients
  • *FOR THE CUPCAKES*
  • 250g self raising flour
  • 50g cocoa powder
  • 300g caster sugar
  • 300g Stork (or unslated butter)
  • 6 eggs
  • *FOR THE BUTTERCREAM*
  • 1 tub of Betty Crocker vanilla flavoured buttercream
  • 1 tub of cream cheese
  • 1 tbsp white chocolate spread
  • 1 tube of Dr Oetkar lime green liquid gel (food colouring)
  • *FOR THE DECORATIONS*
  • 12 mini white marshmallows
  • 12 orange flavoured chocolate buttons (the Tate & Lyle ones), cut in half
  • 2 white choc buttons
  • milk chocolate icing tube - 2 blobs needed (so could use melted choc)
  • 69 milk chocolate buttons
  • Use brown paper cake cases
Instructions
  1. *TO MAKE THE CUPCAKES*
  2. pre-heat the oven to 180oC / 160oC (fan)
  3. cream together the stork/butter and sugar for a few minutes until pale and creamy
  4. add the eggs and a spoonful of the sifted flour and beat well for another couple of minutes
  5. carefully fold in the flour and cocoa powder and mix to combine
  6. divide the batter between 26 cupcake cases and cook in the oven for 20-25 minutes , then leave to cool
  7. While they are cooking, make your buttercream
  8. Place all the ingredients in a bowl and beat until combinded - it is a little runnier than a normal buttercream - and place into piping bags and keep chilled until required.
  9. Once the cakes have been completely cooled and you are ready to serve them, top each cupcake with the green buttercream
  10. On 2 of the cupcakes, add 3 mini marshmallows on each side (6 in total per cake) to look like the teeth and one one add 1 chocolate button in the middle and on the other add 2
  11. On two other cupcakes, you need to pipe some more green buttercream across the middle of them both to join them together - these will make the crocodiles face. To make 2 eyes, add a small blob of the chocolate icing in the centre of each white choc button. Then stick one button at each end of the added buttercream you just piped on
  12. Take 4 more cupcakes and add 3 buttons in the centre of each one and then add 6 of the orange choc halves per cake - 3 on each side slightly over hanging to look like the crocodiles claws
  13. On the remaining cupcakes, add 3 choc buttons to the centre
  14. To position the cupcakes, I copied the formation used by the image I found on google and I drew around each cupcake to make a crocodile stencil to help Burton display the cakes for his show and tell.
  15. Thats it - your Crocodile Cupcake Cake is ready to be devoured!!
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2013/11/crocodile-cupcake-cake.html