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Dinosaur Cupcakes

12 cupcakes
Easy
85 minutes
A perfect treat for dinosaur fans, whatever their age. Bake delicious cupcakes that offer a fabulous prehistoric twist for your tastebuds.
Follow our simple recipe to create these fun cupcakes. Bake sumptuous chocolate cupcakes decorated with buttercream icing, with Dino Head Sprinkles and our Wafer Dinosaurs for added ROAR-factor.
Recipe Ingredients
How to Prepare
Tips
If you do not have a piping bag, spoon the buttercream onto the cupcakes and smooth with a knife.
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Recipe Ingredients

For the Cupcakes
130 gUnsalted butter (softened)
180 gCaster Sugar
2Large Eggs (room temperature)
5 mlDr. Oetker Madagascan Vanilla Extract (1 tsp)
80 mlWhole Milk (room temperature)
40 gDr. Oetker Fine Dark Cocoa Powder
150 gSelf-Raising Flour
12Dr. Oetker White Muffin Cases
To Decorate
400 gDr. Oetker Chocolate Buttercream Style Icing (1 Tub)
1Dr. Oetker Dino Head Sprinkles
1Dr. Oetker Wafer Dinosaurs

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1

For the Cupcakes

Preheat oven to 180⁰C/160⁰C fan oven/gas mark 4. Take a 12 hole muffin tray or deep-holed bun tray and line with the muffin cases.

2

Put the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or electric mixer until pale in colour and fluffy in texture.

3

In a jug beat together the eggs, Vanilla Extract and milk then add to the creamed butter and sugar along with the flour and Cocoa Powder.

4

Beat the ingredients together until smooth.

5

Spoon the mixture into the Muffin Cases, filling about two-thirds full. Bake the cupcakes for 20 minutes or until firm to the touch or an inserted skewer comes out clean.

6

Remove the tray  of cupcakes from the oven and allow to cool for 10 mins before transferring the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely.

7

To Decorate

Once the cupcakes are cooled, stir the Buttercream in the tub to loosen. Place the Buttercream in a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle. Pipe the buttercream onto the cupcakes, starting in the middle of the cupcake pipe the buttercream around in a circle to cover the top of the cupcake. Continue to pipe around the top of the cupcake building up the buttercream to form a swirl.

8

Finish decorating the cupcakes with the Dino Sprinkles and Dino Wafers.

Tips

  • If you do not have a piping bag, spoon the buttercream onto the cupcakes and smooth with a knife.