Welcome to HowToCookThat, I'm Ann Reardon and today after lots of requests we are going
to make a Shopkins cake and the one that we are going to make is ... Mary Wishes.
And we are going to make a giant cupcake one of this little cutie.
To make this cake you will need flour, sugar, margarine, salt, baking powder, three eggs,
oil and milk.
I'll put all the recipe quantities on the HowToCookThat.net
website for you and I'll link to that below for your.
Place the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder and margarine into a bowl and then place that
to one side.
Then to your milk add in the oil and the eggs.
Whisk them together with beaters until they are well combined.
Then using the same beaters mix together the margarine and flour.
Now you could use packet cake mix for this if you don't want to start from scratch or
you can use this recipe.
Keep going until that looks like bread crumbs like this.
Then add in about 1/3 of your liquid and mix that together.
Once it is combined add another third and mix that, then add the rest of the liquid
and mix it through until all that liquid is mixed in evenly and the mixture looks smooth.
Spray a silicone cupcake mold with cooking oil and then add in your cake batter.
And I'll link to the mold that I have here below.
Even those up a bit so the mixture is about up to the same amount on each one, now it
doesn't matter when we bake these if they come right to the top because we are going
to be filling them anyway.
Place those on a tray and bake in the oven for about 15 minutes.
Once they are cooked all the way through you want to tip them out of the mold and leave
to cool.
For the frosting today I am making one and a half times my orange buttercream recipe
and adding to that some chopped milk chocolate and again I'll put all of those recipes on
my website, we have videos showing how make those if you're not sure.
For the lid melt some blue candy melts and spread them over the inside of the cupcake
mold making sure you get it all the way to the top edge.
Do the same with the base but this time using purple.
Now you can use chocolate for this instead of candy melts and just colour it with oil
based food colouring instead.
Cut the cake into layers, I am doing 3 layers for the lid and the base.
And then line the lid with an even layer of frosting.
Place the smallest layer down the bottom and brush it with orange flavoured simple syrup.
For the simple syrup I made this using equal amounts of orange juice and sugar and the
rind of half an orange.
And just heating that in the microwave until the sugar's dissolved and then straining it
and letting it cool.
And it just gives the cake a nice orange flavour and a moistness all the way through.
Top that with your final layer of cake, syrup and frosting and then repeat that with the
base of the cupcake as well.
For the eyes roll out some white fondant and cut out two circles.
Then cut two smaller circles of black and using a little water attach them to one side
of the white.
Then use a straw to cut a tiny circle of white and add it on top of the black positioning
them in the same place on each eye.
Roll a thick snake of blue and then cut it to size for the candle.
Now cut it a bit bigger than you think it will need to be because we can always shorten
it later.
Roll a ball of yellow and use your hand to roll it on one side to make a long teardrop
shape and then bend it over a little bit at the top, then add it to the candle.
For the base of the cupcake, loosen the mold from around the top and then place it on a
cup and carefully bend down that silicone and keep pulling it all the way down and then
lift off the cupcake.
Place that onto a cake stand and add they eyes, making sure the white dot is facing
the same direction so she doesn't look cross-eyed.
Roll a tiny snake of black and cut it into equal sections.
And then roll it again to taper it out on the ends and then cut each of those in half.
Then add them like eyelashes around the eye with one on the top and two at the bottom.
For the lips roll a ball of pink and flatten it slightly and pinch the base to make a triangle
shape then use your finger to round it out a bit at the bottom.
And then add those lips onto the cupcake.
For her feet roll a ball of purple and cut it into two.
Flatten each one slightly and then add it to the base of the cupcake just under the
lips.
In her hands she is holding a present and a card.
So we will cut those out of blue fondant.
Just cutting like a square shape for the present and a flat rectangle for the card.
Then roll a thick snake of purple and cut that in two for her two arms.
Using some water to make it stick, add the present to the side of the cupcake and then
place one of the arms over the top.
For the other side, make a cut for where her hand is so she can hold the card and just
place that card in the gap and then add that to the side of the cupcake.
Then roll a tiny ball of purple and add that into place for the nose.
Tip the top of the cupcake upside down on some baking paper and peel off that mold.
Then spray that one one side with some pink food colour or you could use pink luster dust
just paint that on with a dry paintbrush.
Add the candle to one side.
And then dd the top of the cupcake on top of the base, positioning it so the top slightly
overlaps the base on all sides.
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