Purple Monster Cupcakes
Vanilla cupcakes covered in shaggy purple buttercream fur, googly candy eyes and rainbow sprinkles.
Recipe in testing: I'm cooking it in my TM7™ and will update the steps and the photo with my own.
These fuzzy purple monsters are as much fun to make as to eat. A tender vanilla cupcake gets a coat of shaggy buttercream fur, piped with a grass tip, then as many googly candy eyes as you like and a shower of rainbow sprinkles. No two monsters come out the same, which is half the fun at a Halloween party or a monster birthday.
The Thermomix® TM7™ makes the vanilla batter in two quick mixes, then whips a big batch of buttercream with the butterfly whisk and tints it purple right in the bowl. The fur looks fancy but the move is simple: squeeze, pull up, stop. Set up a decorating station and let the kids add the eyes and sprinkles.
Made in the Thermomix® TM7™
Purple Monster Cupcakes
Makes: 12 cupcakes
- Prep40 min
- Cook20 min
- Total2 h
- Serves12
Ingredients
Vanilla cupcakes
Buttercream
To decorate
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
- Place the butter and sugar in the mixing bowl and mix 1 min/speed 4. Scrape down the sides, add the eggs and vanilla and mix 30 sec/speed 4.
- Add the flour, baking powder, salt and milk and mix 10 sec/speed 4. Scrape down the sides and mix 5 sec/speed 4, just until smooth.
- Divide the batter among the liners, about 2/3 full, and bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until golden and a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Cool completely on a rack, about 1 hour.
- Wash and dry the mixing bowl. Insert the butterfly whisk, add the butter and whip 2 min/speed 3.5, until pale. Add the powdered sugar, milk, vanilla and salt, put the measuring cup in place and whip 1 min/speed 3, then whip 2 min/speed 3.5, scraping down halfway. Add purple gel color and whip 20 sec/speed 3.5, until evenly purple.
- Spoon the buttercream into a piping bag with a grass tip, the kind with many small holes. Hold the bag straight up, just touching the top of a cupcake, squeeze, then pull up about 1 cm (1/2 in), easing off the pressure as you lift. Repeat close together until the whole top is covered in shaggy fur.
- Press 3 to 5 candy eyes of different sizes into the fur of each monster, then scatter rainbow sprinkles over the top.
- Serve right away, or keep the monsters in a closed container in the refrigerator and take them out 20 minutes before serving.
Tips
- Grass tips are sold in the cake decorating aisle of craft stores and many supermarkets. No grass tip? Pipe short pulls with a small star tip, or spread the frosting and rough it up with a fork.
- Purple gel can look pinkish. For a deeper violet, add a tiny dot of blue gel color with the purple.
- Bake the cupcakes the day before and keep them in an airtight container at room temperature; decorate on party day.
- Florida heat softens buttercream fast, so keep decorated cupcakes in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
