Name: Monster cupcakes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 250g self-raising flour; 25g cocoa powder; 175g light muscovado sugar; 85g unsalted butter melted; 5 tbsp vegetable or sunflower oil; 150g pot fat-free natural yogurt; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 3 large eggs; 85g unsalted butter softened; 1 tbsp milk; ½ tsp vanilla extract; 200g icing sugar sifted; food colourings (optional); sweets and sprinkles, to decorate

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Monster cupcakes

Monster cupcakes

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Makes 12

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 20 mins

Plus cooling and decorating

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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250g self-raising flour
25g cocoa powder
175g light muscovado sugar
85g unsalted butter

melted
5 tbsp vegetable or sunflower oil
150g pot fat-free natural yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs

For the frosting and decorating

85g unsalted butter

softened
1 tbsp milk
½ tsp vanilla extract
200g icing sugar

sifted
food colourings

(optional)
sweets

and sprinkles, to decorate

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal389
fat19g
saturates9g
carbs53g
sugars36g
fibre1g
protein5g
salt0.3g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with deep cake cases. Put all the cake ingredients into a large bowl and beat together with electric hand beaters until smooth. Spoon the mix into the cases, then bake for 20 mins until risen and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out dry. Cool completely on a rack. Can be made up to 3 days ahead and kept in an airtight container, or frozen for up to 1 month.
step 2

For the frosting, work the butter, milk and vanilla into the icing sugar until creamy and pale. Colour with food colouring, if using, then create your own gruesome monster faces using sweets and sprinkles.

RECIPE TIPS

SWEETS AND SPRINKLES

Try using Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts, Jelly Belly jelly beans, Haribo Liquorice Favourites, Teeth and Lips (Tesco own), Millions or Polos, plus some hundreds and thousands.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2010

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