Cars and Trucks Cupcakes

Name: Cars and Trucks Cupcakes
Yield: Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients: gel or paste food colouring, black, blue, red, yellow, green and pink; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup icing (confectioners’) sugar; 15-30 ml/1-2 tbsp orange juice; grated rind of 1 orange; 115 g/4 oz/1 cup self-raising (self-rising) flour, sifted; 5-7.5 ml/1-½ tsp water; 5 ml/1 tsp lemon juice (optional); 2.5 ml/½ tsp glycerine; ½ egg white (about 17 g/½ oz/generous 1 tbsp); 115 g/4 oz/generous ½ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 115 g/4 oz/½ cup butter; 250 g/9 oz ready-to-roll fondant icing, white

Preparation info

Makes
12
cupcakes

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cupcakes for Kids

By Rosie Anness and Cortina Butler

Published 2014

About

Some children just love moving vehicles of all kinds. We have made cars and trucks, but you can experiment with diggers, ambulances, fire vehicles — whatever your child loves most. For a birthday pipe your child’s age on the top of each vehicle in a contrasting colour.

Ingredients

For the Cakes

115 g/4 oz/½ cup butter
115

Cake
Birthday

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Line a muffin tin (pan) with cupcake cases.
Cream the butter for a few minutes until soft and pale. Add the sugar and continue to beat until the mixture is pale and fluffy. Gradually add the lightly beaten eggs to