Rose And Lyche Cupcakes
Rose And Lyche Cupcakes! I’m not a fan of roses. I’m just not. They remind me of gross porcelain plates with paintings of ugly roses on them lol. Coincidently, that’s what the evil character from Harry Potter loves! Ugly flowers and an overdose of fluffy cats! Now I’m not saying Dolores Umbridge’s obsession with cats is bad, but, she does love cats a suspicious amount…
Rose flavoured vanilla cupcakes with rose flavoured buttercream roses inspired by Professor Umbridge in the Harry Potter series.
Rose And Lyche Cupcakes
Rose flavoured vanilla cupcakes with rose flavoured buttercream roses inspired by Professor Umbridge in the Harry Potter series.
Serves 20
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 3 1/2 cups (430 g) plain all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups (265 g) caster superfine sugar
- 3 tsp (3 tsp) baking powder
- 1/2 tsp (1/2 tsp) fine salt
- 1/2 cup (125 g) unsalted butter softened
- 2 (2) large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups (375 ml) full-cream whole milk
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) vegetable oil
- 2 tbsp (2 tbsp) Greek yoghurt or sour cream
- 1 tsp (1 tsp) vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- 3 (3) drops pink food gel
- 2 cup (300 g) canned lychees roughly chopped
Frosting
- 2 (2) batches American Buttercream frosting
- 1 tsp (1 tsp) rose water flavouring
- 3 (3) drops pink food gel
- 3 (3) drops leaf green food gel
Instructions
Frosting
- Add rose water flavouring to the frosting and mix until well combined.
- Split the frosting between three bowls. Add pink food gel to one and mix until well combined. Add the green food gel to the second bowl and repeat. Leave the third bowl white.
Buttercream flowers
- To prepare the buttercream flowers add the pink and white frosting to two separate piping bags.
- Lay out a large piece of plastic wrap on your work bench. Pipe rows of the pink and white frosting next to each other. About 8 of each.
- Roll up the frosting into a log and twist each end. Snip off one end with some scissors.
- Add the frosting log into a large piping bag fitted with a Wilton 97 tip.
- Add about a tbsp of the pink frosting to a second piping bag fitted with a Wilton #3 tip.
- To make the roses you’ll need what’s called a flower nail. You can grab them at cake supply stores, or online. They’ll make piping your flowers easier.
- You’ll also need to cut out some 1 inch x 1 inch pieces of baking paper.
- Add a dab of frosting on your flower nail and add a square of baking paper on top.
- Pipe a little blob of pink frosting using the #3 tip. Then pipe a swirl of frosting using the leaf tip. Continue piping little petals around the blob of pink frosting as demonstrated in the video. The more petals you pipe, the bigger your rose will be. Because we want these to be quite small, you’ll want to pipe around 6 petals around each rose.
- Transfer the piped roses onto a baking tray and chill until they’re ready to use. And yes, in case you haven’t figured it out yet, you’ll be piping a lot of flowers. Throw on your favourite podcast or album and pipe for your life! You’ll need about 20 roses for each cupcake.
Cupcakes
- Preheat a fan-forced oven to 140°C (275°F) or a conventional oven to 160°C (320°F). Line two cupcake tins with the cupcake liners.
- Add the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt to a large mixing bowl and mix with a hand mixer until well combined.
- Next, add the softened butter and mix on low speed until the mixture reaches a crumbly, sand-like texture.
- Add the eggs, milk, oil, lychee syrup, pink food gel, yoghurt and vanilla, and mix on low speed until all the dry ingredients are incorporated. Scrape down the side of the bowl and mix for a final 20 seconds.
- Fill each liner three-quarters of the way. Using an ice-cream scoop to transfer the batter to the cupcake liners makes this a quick and easy process, and ensures each liner contains exactly the same amount of batter and that the cupcakes will bake evenly. Add some chopped lychees on top.
- Bake for 40–50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Allow the cupcakes to cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.
- Fit the end of a piping bag with a medium round tip and frost a small swirl of frosting on top of each cupcake.
- To stick the chilled roses on your frosted cupcakes, you’ll need to act fast, because the chilled roses will defrost and soften after about 5 minutes.
- Fit the end of a piping bag with a Wilton #3 tip and fill with green frosting.
- Frost tiny little bulbs in between each rose to fill the gaps.
Notes
Cupcakes can be stored in an airtight container for up to three days.
Nutrition
Calories : 184kcal
Carbonhydrates: 21g
Protein: 3g
Fat: 10g
Saturated Fat: 7g
Trans Fat : 1g
Cholesterol: 12mg
Sodium: 124mg
Potassium : 65mg
Fiber: 1g
Sugar : 4g
Vitamin A: 143IU
Vitamin C: 17mg
Calcium: 43mg
Iron: 1mg
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