Take a step into Wonderland with these beautiful Pansy Cupcakes garnished with actual edible flowers. This gorgeous cupcake recipe is ideal for springtime!
Do you know pansies are edible? Sure, this cheap, widespread flower not solely offers improbable colour all winter lengthy but additionally will be added to a wide range of dishes, together with these beautiful cupcakes! Simply swish the blooms in chilly water and let dry earlier than utilizing.
Pansies are available in all types of colours and sizes. I adorned a few of these cupcakes with one massive flower or a few smaller flowers. I like that each cupcake is completely different!
These are finest served day-of as a result of the flowers will begin to wilt as quickly as you chop them. If you wish to bake these cupcakes forward of time, you’ll be able to bake the cupcakes and freeze them after which simply thaw, frost, and pop pansies on proper earlier than you serve.
I’ve chosen to high these cupcakes with my Fiori di Sicilia (orange vanilla) frosting right here however be at liberty to only do vanilla frosting in the event you favor.
Pansy Cupcakes
2 cups sugar
3 1/4 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, smooth
1 1/4 cups milk, at room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 massive eggs
Fiori di Sicilia frosting, recipe follows
Contemporary pansies
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two muffins pans with cupcake liners and spray with nonstick spray.
- In a big mixing bowl, whisk collectively the sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Add butter to the mixer and beat till it appears sandy.
- Mix the milk and vanilla and add to the mixer. Combine on low velocity till included. Don’t neglect to scrape the bowl as you go!
- Crack eggs right into a bowl. This fashion, you received’t unintentionally get egg shells in your cake batter. With the mixer working on low, add eggs one after the other. Be certain that every is included earlier than including the subsequent.
- Divide batter evenly amongst twenty-four cupcake liners. Bake for 20-22 minutes or till a toothpick inserted within the heart will come out clear.
- Take away the cupcakes from the oven and funky for 5 minutes earlier than eradicating them from the pan. Cool fully.
- Dunk pansies right into a bowl of chilly water, swishing round to wash them. Take away and set on a paper towel to dry fully.
- Frost cupcakes as desired with Fiori di Sicilia Frosting and high as desired with pansies.
Fiori di Sicilia Frosting
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
5 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1 tsp fiori di sicilia (orange vanilla) extract*
2-3 Tbsp milk
- Beat butter with electrical mixer till good and fluffy. Beat in two cups of powdered sugar till included, then add Fiori di Sicilia extract.
- Beat in two extra cups of powdered sugar till mixed. Add a tablespoon of milk and last cup of powdered sugar. Beat in one other tablespoon of milk. Add extra powdered sugar or milk as wanted to succeed in your required consistency.
*Or substitute 1/4 tsp orange extract and three/4 tsp vanilla extract
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