FollowSour Octopus Cupcakes
These Sour Octopus Cupcakes are a delicious sweet and sour treat that will have your family and guests squealing with delight. Colorful, sweet, sour, and delicious are a few words that come to mind about these sour cupcakes that are great to serve during Shark Week, children’s birthday parties, or even when doing a unit study.
Sour Octopus Cupcakes
Ingredients:
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temp
2 egg whites
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 baking soda
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Cupcake Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line the cupcake tins with paper liners.
3. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a bowl.
4. Beat butter on high for 30 seconds.
5. Add sugar and vanilla extract to the butter, beating until well combined.
6. Add egg whites, and then eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
7. Alternate adding the flour mixture and buttermilk to the butter mixture, beating on low speed until everything is mixed together.
8. Add 1/3 C flour mixture to the wet mixture followed by adding 1/3 cup of the buttermilk; add 1/3 cup flour mixture again then add 1/3 cup buttermilk mix on low speed, add 1/3 cup of flour and add the rest of 1/3 C of buttermilk mix in low speed until thoroughly blended.
9. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted cupcake comes out clean.
1o. Allow to cool in the cupcake tine for 10 minutes.
11. Remove the cupcakes from the cupcake tin and completely cool on a wire rack.
Cupcake Frosting
Frosting Ingredients:
1 cup soft unsalted butter
4 + cups powder sugar
4 TBSP heavy whipping cream
Blue gel food coloring
Citric Acid
Frosting Directions:
1. Cream the butter and powder sugar until it looks light and creamy.
2. If it doesn’t cream add several drops of the heavy whipping cream.
3.. Test to see if the frosting can form and hold a stiff peak.
4. Add 1 TBSP citric acid…. mix well.
5. If not add more powder sugar 1/2 C at a time.
6. Test to make sure that the frosting can make and hold a stiff peak.
7. Divide the frosting equally into two bowls…..first bowl remains white, while the second bowl…add several drops of blue gel food coloring….mix well.
8. Scoop the blue frosting into a pastry bag with a 13 inch round frosting tip…. then add the white frosting….twist the open end of the pastry bag to push the frosting to the tip….Test to make sure that the combination of blue and white frosting comes to the tip at the same time.
9. Frost cupcakes from the outside edge to the center of the cupcake.
Sour Octopus
1. Buy 1 package of Sour Octopus candy.
2. Place the sour octopus on the top of the frosted cupcake.
3. If necessary you can use a small dollop of the white frosting as the “glue” for the octopus.
