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A cupcake topped with white and pink frosting, a swirl lollipop, chocolate drizzle, a raspberry, pink sprinkles, and pieces of pink and white candy, set against a pastel pink background.

Candy Meadow Cupcakes

Candy inspired vanilla cupcakes.
5 from 1 vote
Prep 40 minutes
Cook 45 minutes
Total 1 hour 25 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 20
Calories 354 kcal

Ingredients

Cupcakes

  • 3 1/2 cups (430 g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 cups (265 g) caster sugar superfine
  • 3 tsp (3 tsp) baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp (1/2 tsp) fine salt
  • 1/2 cup (125 g) unsalted butter softened
  • 2 large (2 large) eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups (375 ml) whole milk
  • 1/2 cup (125 ml) vegetable oil
  • 2 tbsp (2 tbsp) Greek yoghurt or sour cream
  • 1 tsp (1 tsp) vanilla extract vanilla bean paste
  • 20 (20) candy striped lollipops
  • 1 tsp (1 tsp) strawberry essence
  • 3 cups (400 g) crushed frozen raspberries
  • Freeze dried raspberries whole x 20 and some crushed to sprinkle
  • Pink sugar pearls
  • 1 cup (250 ml) Chocolate sauce

Chocolate bark:

  • 1 1/2 cups (300 g) white chocolate
  • 1 tbsp (1 tbsp) vegetable oil
  • 1 drop (1 drop) pink food dye

Pink chocolate sauce:

  • 1 cup (200 g) white chocolate
  • 1/2 cup (150 ml) cream at least 35% fat content
  • 1 drop (1 drop) pink food dye

Frosting

  • 2 batches (2 batches) of fluffy white choc ganache frosting

Instructions
 

Pink chocolate sauce:

  • Combine white choc and cream in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 20 seconds at a time until smooth. Add pink food dye and mix until well combined. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside.

Chocolate Bark

  • Add white chocolate to a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 20 seconds at a time, mixing each time until smooth. Transfer about 1/3 of it to a small mixing bowl. Add oil and food dye and mix until well combined.
  • Pour white choc on to a large piece of baking paper and spread evenly. Drizzle pink chocolate on to the white and use a toothpick or the back of a fork and swirl it around to create a tie dye like effect. Sprinkle for freeze dried raspberries and chill in the fridge for 20 min. Once it’s set chop up with a large knife or break up with your hands.

Cupcakes

  • Preheat a fan-forced oven to 160C (320F) or 180C (356F) for a conventional oven. Line a cupcake tin with cupcake liners.
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the flour, baking powder, caster sugar and salt. Turn mixer on low speed and allow it to mix for a couple minutes to help everything combine well (alternatively you may do this by sifting the ingredients together). Add the softened butter and let it mix until it resembles a fine sand like texture.
  • Next, add milk, eggs, yogurt, oil, strawberry essence and vanilla extract in a large jug and whisk well.
  • Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients in a slow and steady stream until no dry ingredients are visible. Scrape down the bowl, add 2 cups frozen raspberries and mix for another 20 seconds.
  • Fill each cupcake liner 3/4 of the way (using an ice cream scoop to transfer the batter into the cupcake liners makes this a quick and easy process otherwise you can use two tablespoons).  Sprinkle with more crushed frozen raspberries.
  • Bake for 20-25 min or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Allow them to cool completely on a wire cooling rack before frosting.
  • To finish cupcakes, core each cupcake, insert one freeze dried raspberry in each one and fill with chocolate sauce.
  • Fit the end of a piping bag with a round tip and frost in a swirl with white chocolate ganache.
  • Drizzle with pink chocolate sauce, then with chocolate sauce. Decorate with freeze dried raspberry, pink sugar pearls, chocolate bark and a candy-striped lollipop.

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Notes

Cupcakes can be stored in an airtight container for up to three days.

Nutrition

Serving:20g | Calories:354kcal | Carbohydrates:33g | Protein:5g | Fat:23g | Saturated Fat:15g | Polyunsaturated Fat:0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat:0.1g | Trans Fat:0.1g | Cholesterol:48mg | Sodium:173mg | Potassium:132mg | Fiber:1g | Sugar:16g | Vitamin A:316IU | Vitamin C:1mg | Calcium:125mg | Iron:1mg
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