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I'm about to show. So today's recipe is kind of a bit current guys! But maybe
slightly late to the party.
Because I'm gonna show you how to make mermaid cupcakes, you know, like, a couple years ago,
it was all about rainbows and then it was
unicorns... Now, it seems like the mermaids have kind of taken over and it's really... making waves... Ha ha ha!
Okay, well, moving on to the actual recipe.
I'm gonna start by making the
decorations, which obviously have to be a mermaid tail and these are quite easy, as long as you have
an essential piece of kit, which is this silicon
mold. And they come in all kinds of sizes,
colors — this is obviously a single one. It's quite big. And I've also got a tray of, let's see, 16
mermaid tails, which is quite a lot, and these are much smaller, and I'm going to be using
white chocolate for these. You can use sugar paste
if you want, you could just press your sugar paste in, but I find it a lot easier just to
use white chocolate, because it's melty and easy and it gets into all the corners.
So I've already melted my white chocolate with a tiny tiny bit of cocoa butter, just to help its fluidity.
So I'm gonna cut the end off my piping bag.
I haven't chopped too much off because I don't want it to really gush out,
I wanna have some control over it! And then, I'm just gonna go ahead and fill my molds!
Once you've filled your trays with the white chocolate,
you then need to chill them and you can either do that in the freezer for a few minutes or in the fridge for like
half an hour to an hour, until they're nice and set and then they turn out like this!
Now, at the moment, these mermaid tails look a little bit anemic. There is no life in them!
So I'm gonna jazz them up using luster dust. Now,
I've not used these in videos before but we use them in Crumbs & Doilies all the time.
You've probably used them before in your cake decorating
history, and they're really useful! You can use them for painting with a little bit of vodka
or you can do what I'm about to do, which is to make really lovely blended colors onto things like mermaid tails.
So I've got a lovely palette here with some lovely mermaidy colors and a soft soft paintbrush and I'm just gonna blend them away!
So you can do as many or as few of these as you like, but obviously I'm gonna be making 12 cupcakes, so
I'm obviously gonna need 12, in various sizes. So you're gonna need to keep them cool until you need to use them,
so I would recommend leaving them in the fridge until you finish baking your cakes, but for now, just keep going till you got enough!
Now it's time to make the sponge of the cupcakes and these are gonna be
multicolored mermaid yummy things so, that's great. And I'm basing on my white chocolate mud cake
cupcake recipe, which you may have
experienced already and if you have, lucky you, and if you haven't lucky you because it's so yummy!
It's gonna be even yummier in a minute because I'm gonna make it look pretty and colorful!
So I've already begun by melting some of my ingredients together and all the measurements for this recipe are in the description box below,
so, please go and check that out.
So in this bowl
I have my white chocolate, my milk, my butter and my vanilla, and I melted it together in a pan,
you can do it in the microwave as well, and I've just left it to cool a little bit.
So next up : I'm going to whisk my eggs and my sugar together.
I am actually using one and a half eggs
So you can use two small eggs, but I always have large eggs in my kitchen so I can't do that.
So one and a half large eggs or two small eggs into the bowl
and I'm gonna add my sugar and just give that a really good whisk until it's quite pale.
So now I wanna go in with my melted white chocolate mixture and give that a bit of a whisk as well!
Once that's all really well combined, you can go in with your flour — I've got self-raising flour here.
Just work it in and stir that about with a whisk as well!
That is very
tasty-smelling so I think it's gonna be tasty lots once we've baked it, but I'm gonna be doing three colors. I'm gonna do pink,
blue and purple!
But I'm only gonna use pink and blue to make all of those colors because obviously pink and blue... make purple!
So I'm gonna divide my batter between these three little jugs here.
And then I'm gonna use, as usual, color paste or you can also use oil-based color and just mix them really really well.
So these colors look really good and it's definitely gonna look pretty cool in the cake. So I'm gonna do this by
spooning blobs of each color into each cupcake case. You can use piping bags if you want,
but sometimes this batter can be quite runny and it can be quite difficult to control the run, haha!
So I'm just gonna scoop, and scoop, and scoop and scoop and scoop until I've got loads of lovely multicolored cupcakes
but I will always end on pink because it bakes the nicest color. If you end on the green or the blue-y green or
the purple, it can go a bit murky. So try and end on the pink if you can.
And with all the batter in, I'm just now going to bake these at
170°C for 18 to 20 minutes until they're nice and springy on the top.
And I'm back to finish off my beautiful — soon-to-be beautiful — mermaid cakes.
They are looking pretty cool as they are. As you can see the pink's gone a really nice color,
there's lots of layers inside... Now,
we're gonna make them even prettier by decorating them with a variety of colors of buttercream
and I'm just using my regular vanilla buttercream recipe. I have got pink
Green-y... blue-y... aqua and purple and to start with I'm going to use my cling film technique
(It's not my technique at all, loads can do it)
But I'm going to be using that technique to get all of my colors into one piping bag, so here goes!
So once it's all rolled up in your ~sausage~, you can put it into a piping bag.
I've got a nice big piping bag here with a round nozzle on the end, so just wiggling in.
Make sure it goes right to the bottom and that there's no cling film obstructing the end.
Give it a little twist.
Make sure it's coming out — yes it is — and now you can do a little blob on your cupcakes
Now they already look pretty cool
but they're gonna look even cooler, 'cause I have a really fun mix of mermaidy kind of sprinkles
which I made — obviously I have the luxury of... I don't even know how many
sprinkles behind me in my sprinkle cupboard, you guys all love my sprinkle cupboard.
You can buy pre-mixed mermaidy style sprinkles,
there's loads of companies that do them now, so you shouldn't have much trouble trying to find something suitable.
I've also got another piping bag
with some
light blue buttercream with a star nozzle on and that is gonna be the kind of wave that the mermaid is like leaping
into... Does that make sense? She's not leaping out...
Anyway, she's gonna be in a wave! So start off by sprinkling, then finish it with a wave!
That's all my waves done
so now all that remains is to put my mermaid tails in and I've picked my
favorite ones from my little bunch that I made earlier. So now all I need to do is stick them in!
And there they are!
Beautiful little mermaid cupcakes, ready to swim off into somebody's mouth, some lucky person!
So I hope you give those a go. Please do and please take a picture and put it on your Instagram feed!
Make sure you hashtag #CupcakeJemma so that I can see it and maybe even pick it
if it's one of my faves and put it on my own Instagram feed every Mega Fan Monday.
So this has been me, Cupcake Jemma, making these mermaid cupcakes for you guys
and I'll be back next week with another recipe. In the meantime,
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