Recipe: Christmas Tree Cupcakes

Add a touch of festive cheer to your parties with these adorable cupcakes

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These sweet treats are created with the newly-launched Equal Sugar Blend, a fine granulated sweetener designed to be used primarily for baking. Kids and adults alike will enjoy biting into these Christmas Tree Cupcakes.

INGREDIENTS

Icing

200ml Whipping cream
20g Equal Sugar Blend
Green food colouring

Chocolate cupcake

65g Dark chocolate
50g Butter
65ml Whipping cream
40g Cocoa powder
20g Low-gluten flour
3 Egg yolks
2 Egg whites
10g + 30g Equal Sugar Blend
Strawberries

METHOD

Chocolate Cupcakes

Pre-heat the oven to 170 °C.
Line a muffin tin with paper cases.
On low heat, combine the whipping cream and butter in a small saucepan and whisk constantly until the mixture comes to a low boil. Reduce the heat and continue whisking until the mixture starts to thicken. Remove saucepan from the heat.
Chop the dark chocolate into small pieces and place in a heatproof bowl. Pour in the boiled whipping cream and butter. Stir the mixture until combined. Sift the cocoa powder into the bowl.
Add 10g of Equal Sugar Blend to the egg yolks and whip until pale.
Sift the flour into the cupcake batter and add the egg yolks.
Whip the egg whites until they are light and fluffy while slowly adding 30g of Equal Sugar Blend.
Slowly add the egg whites to the cupcake batter, mixing the batter gently.
Divide the batter into the paper cases.
Bake in oven for about 20 minutes until risen and firm to the touch.
Place the tin aside to cool.

Icing & Decoration

Add 20g of Equal Sugar Blend to whipping cream. Beat until the mixture is creamy and fluffy.
Add green food colouring.
Put in to decorating bag.
Place one strawberry on top of each cupcake.
Using the decorating bag, gently squeeze out the frosting to decorate the cupcake.