Minecraft Cupcakes with Easy Grass Frosting

🧂 Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1 1/2 cups pure cane sugar
• 2 large eggs

  separated
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk*
• 2 cups cake flour*
• 1/2 cup dark cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup salted butter

  softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• Wilton Leaf Green icing color

Instructions

• 1 Cream (or mix) together the butter, canola oil, and sugar for a good 5 to 8
  minutes.
• 2 You should have already separated your eggs at this point, so go ahead and add
  the egg yolks and vanilla extract in with the sugar mixture, and mix well.
• 3 In a separate mixing bowl [https://amzn.to/3d3E8yM], mix together the dry
  ingredients, including the cake flour, dark cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
• 4 Alternate adding the dry ingredients with the buttermilk to your creamed
  mixture, mixing after each addition.
• 5 Finally, when everything is mixed together, fold in the egg whites and mix
  together just until the batter is blended.
• 6 Add cupcake liners [https://amzn.to/3jCvU37] to your muffin tins
  [https://amzn.to/34CTHdg] (you'll need about 24 muffin cups), and pour or
  dispense the batter into each liner, filling each cup 3/4 of the way full.
• 7 Bake at 350° F for about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• 8 Allow the cupcakes to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes; then remove to
  a wire rack [https://amzn.to/2GnQxSz] to finish cooling before frosting.
• 9 To make green buttercream frosting, mix together the softened butter, vanilla
  extract, almond extract, and heavy whipping cream.
• 10 Add in the powdered sugar, and mix everything together for 2 to 3 minutes,
  mixing well.
• 11 Using Wilton Leaf Green [https://amzn.to/3loU6qr] (or a similar coloring), add
  green coloring to your frosting, and mix until well blended. Be sure to follow
  instructions for your specific food coloring.
• 12 Place the cooled cupcakes in the Minecraft liners [https://amzn.to/3iCRuDt] of
  your choosing before decorating.
• 13 Using this large grass tip [https://amzn.to/36ATdqx] (or a similar grass tip),
  add grass to each cupcake with your green buttercream frosting. Make sure the
  icing is thin enough to squeeze through the tip but not so thin it'll just melt
  away. Your technique should be to squeeze thru, and pull up or away (see video
  above).
• 14 When finished, plop a cupcake topper [https://amzn.to/30BCYWk] into each cupcake
  if you want.

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