Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cupcakes

So my neighbours popped round earlier with these amazing cupcakes, and unfortunately I can’t take the credit for them! I thought they were awesome and i just had to share it with you so I decided that I'd share how I think you could make them.

To make the cupcakes you will need:

• 100g caster sugar
• 100g self raising flour
• 100g unsalted butter (room temperature)
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

To make the the buttercream frosting you will need:

• 150g icing sugar
• 75g unsalted butter (room temperature)
• 1-2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Food colouring of choice, they used Dr Oetker’s gel food colouring

For decoration:

• Green royal icing
• Orange royal icing
• White Royal icing
• Black writing icing

Note: the Royal icing can be bought as colours or you can buy white and dye yourself using food colouring of choice 🙂

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas Mark 4. Line a 12 hole cupcake tin with paper cases (I used Halloween ones)
2. Put the flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla extract into a large mixing bowl.
3. Beat the mixture by hand or using an electric whisk until you get a creamy consistency. Spoon the mixture into the cases.
   Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.
4. Leave to cool while you prepare the butter icing
5. To make the buttercream, beat the butter in a medium sized mixing bowl until soft.
6. Add half of the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
7. Add the remaining icing sugar and one tablespoon of milk and beat the mixture until creamy and smooth. Beat in the milk and the vanilla extract.
8. Then add a few drops of Dr Oetker black gel food colouring until you get a grey coloured buttercream.
9. Once the cakes have cooled, use a piping bag to pipe on the buttercream.
10. Then using the green royal icing make the face shape, you may need to use a picture as reference. Then using the orange icing, roll it into a thin strip about 5mm in width anyplace along the top half of the head. Create two small white icing balls per face for eyes and using the writing icing make a pupil on each and then draw a mouth.

Note: you may need to use a small amount of water to attach all the icing elements.

I hope this post is useful for anyone who is planning to celebrate a teenage mutant ninja turtles themed birthday for a child or friend as these where loved by everyone who attended an tasted amazing.

Annie xx