Recipe Box Friday: Piggy Cupcakes
Date posted: July 27, 2012 | By: Dawn I made these piggy cupcakes a few weeks ago for my dear friend, Hope’s, baby shower.
BeautyFrosting's Piggy Cupcakes
How’d I choose pigs? Well, to celebrate a true southern-turned SoCal transplant-she was given a “BABY-Q”. Get it?
Baby-Q-themed Piggy Cupcakes
The invite (above) was super cute with a baby pig cartoon on it and, well, it just seemed the way to go!
So many of you liked the pics of the piggy cupcakes on my BeautyFrosting Facebook page, that I knew I had to share the recipe with y’all.
So here you go!
Pig Cupcakes: Super fun & delicious!
BeautyFrosting’s Piggy Cupcakes
As for the cake, I used my Mom’s Strawberry cake recipe which I will feature NEXT Friday. But here’s how you make the piggies.
What you need for your piggies:
Pink or Chocolate Cupcake Paper Cups
24 Baked Cupcakes of your choice
1 Batch of Buttercream Frosting (My favorite recipe is below!)
32 Jet-Puffed StrawberryMallows (1 8-ounce bag)
48 Milk Chocolate Chips
Pink Food Coloring
Red Food Coloring
Gettin’ Crafty with Cupcakes:
Let your cupcakes cool and mix up your frosting.
Tint the icing, by adding the pink food coloring, til you reach a nice bubblegum piglet-pink hue. Mix until perfectly pink.
Frost each cupcake making sure to make the “face” of the pig as smooth as possible. I prefer using a small cake frosting spatula.
Cut your marshmallows into halves.
Use half for the nose with the non-sticky side facing up in the middle of the cupcake.
Make the piggy’s eyes by placing the chocolate chips point down into the frosting (with the flat side up).
To make the ears, take the other half of the marshmallow and cut into two. Pinch each end to make pointy piggy ears.
Take a toothpick or chopstick and dip it in red food coloring. Make 2 dots on the nose marshmallow to make nostrils. You can re-do this again if the colour is too pale.
BeautyFrosting’s Creamy ButterCream Frosting Recipe
¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
½ cup Heavy Whipping Cream
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
4¼ to 4½ cups confectioners (powdered) sugar
xoxo,
BF
BF Asks: If you make ‘em, please send me a pic! Have fun!!
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