Tatty Teddy Cupcakes

Remember Horse Themed Cupcakes that I made a month ago?  The ones with Horse Butt and Horse faces. Well, this time is Tatty Teddy Cupcakes for baby shower."The mother to be" kept the gender surprise, so the theme colour for baby shower is blue and pink. To be honest, I don't really know much about tatty teddy when I was younger (shame on me) but making them for an order was so much fun. I made different character to those 6 of tatty teddy, they are cute, aren't they?

The base flavor of these cupcakes are vanilla cupcakes with dollop of strawberry jam filling and chocolate cupcakes with dollop of nutella filling. I made the vanilla frosting for both chocolate and vanilla cupcakes.I used the vanilla cupcake recipe from Macaron on Cupcake and vanilla frosting recipe from Horse Themed Cupcakes

I also made another dozen plain vanilla and chocolate cupcakes for an order without tatty teddy character on the top. I am so in love with those bright color.

For anyone in Melbourne area interested in custom cake and dessert orders, please feel free to contact me on flamingpot10@gmail.com

Tatty Teddy Cupcakes

Please click here for Vanilla Cupcake recipe (add the strawberry jam for the ingredient for the filling)

Chocolate Cupcakes

(makes 12)

Ingredients

100g Plain Flour

20g Cocoa Powder

140g Caster Sugar

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

a pinch of Salt

40g Unsalted Butter, at room temperature

120ml Whole Milk

1 Egg

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Hazelnut Spread (Nutella) for filling

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 170º.  Put the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and butter in freestanding electric mixer with paddle attachment and beat on slow speed until you get a sandy consistency and everything is combined

2. Whisk the milk, egg and vanilla extract together in a jug, then slowly pour in the remaining milk mixture (scrape any unmixed ingredients from the side of the bowl with a rubber spatula). Continue mixing for a couple more minutes until the mixture is smooth. Do not overmix.

3. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until two-thirds full and bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until the sponge bounces back when touched. A skewer inserted in the centre should come out clean. Leave the cupcakes to cool slightly in the tray before turning out onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

Once both chocolate and vanilla cupcakes are cool, core the the cupcake and fill with strawberry jam filling (for the vanilla cupcake) and hazelnut spread/nutella (for the chocolate cupcake). Then frost both cupcakes with vanilla frosting (please click here for the recipe) 

Top each cupcakes with tatty teddy figurine using fondant. 

Here is my favorite ones