These Echidna Cupcakes will brighten up the table with their cuteness!
Serve these on Australia day and the kids will go NUTS for these cute little echidna cupcake treats.
Method
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Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
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Line a 12 hole muffin tin with muffin cases and set aside.
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Cream the butter and caster sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla essence and then the eggs one at a time and beat.
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Sift in the flour and add the milk and fold until just combined (don't overbeat).
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Spoon the mixture evenly into the 12 patty cases.
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Bake for 30 minutes or until golden. Allow to cool on a wire rack.
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Sift icing sugar and cocoa, add butter and mix using electric beaters until light and fluffy.
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Chocolate bullets
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Brown M&Ms
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Green Coconut for grass ( 1 cup coconut 3 teaspoons green food colouring, place both into a plastic zip bag, close and shake until mixed)
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Arrange bullets at the back of your iced cupcake in three rows.
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Place eyes on at the front. Put nose on below eyes, using a bullet at the front edge of the cupcake.
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Sprinkle coconut 'grass' on plate and place Echidna Cupcakes on top.
They can even help you make them and they’ll love decorating them.
