Cheeseburger Cupcake

🧂 Ingredients

• 16 oz Cream cheese
• 1 c Butter
• 8 c Confectioners’ sugar
• 4 tsp Vanilla extract
• Green food colouring
• Yellow food colouring
• Orange food colouring
• 1 Cake decorating gel tube in red
• 1 box Cake mix, chocolate
• 1 box Cake mix, yellow
• 1 tbsp White sesame seeds
• 12 Burger picks to secure the cupcakes

Instructions

• 1 I find it easier to make the cream cheese frosting the day before so that it has
  more time to stiffen in the fridge overnight.
• 2 Combine 1 c softened butter with 16 oz of cream cheese. Beat with mixer until
  well-blended
• 3 Add 8 c Confectioners’ sugar and 4 tsp vanilla extract. Beat until smooth
• 4 Put half of the cream cheese frosting into a separate mixing bowl. Add orange
  and yellow food coloring and mix well. Colours will vary with different food
  colouring products. Mix the colours to get a cheddar cheese-like colour.
• 5 Add green food colouring to the other half of the cream cheese frosting to get a
  lettuce-like colour and mix well
• 6 Spoon the cream cheese frostings into separate piping bags and place in the
  fridge for at least 6 hours to stiffen. Overnight would be optimal I used a
  straight piping nozzle for the yellow and a star piping nozzle for the green
• 7 Make cupcakes as per cake mix box
• 8 After the cupcakes have cooled, cover the yellow cupcakes with a cover for an
  hour to create some moisture on the tops so that sesame seeds can stick-on. If
  you aren't able to cover the cupcakes, follow the additional instructions in
  step 10
• 9 Slice the cupcakes into halves. For the yellow cake, the top is the top bun and
  the bottom is the bottom bun. For the chocolate cake, you only use the tops as
  the burger patty
• 10 Sprinkle white sesame seeds to the tops of the yellow cupcakes. If you weren't
  able to cover the cupcakes to create moisture: brush some warm water on the tops
  and sprinkle with sesame seeds
• 11 To assemble, place the bottom of the yellow cupcake down first
• 12 Pipe the green cream cheese to resemble the lettuce
• 13 Add the chocolate cupcake top
• 14 Pipe the yellow cream cheese to resemble the cheese
• 15 Use a knife to spread and close gaps
• 16 Use the red cake decorating gel to make lines of “ketchup”
• 17 Add the yellow cupcake top
• 18 Insert burger pick to prevent the layers from falling over
• 19 Serve (with pound cake “fries” optional)

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