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Custard Filled Cupcakes

Makes: 12 Preparation time: 30 minutes An easy cheat’s recipe that looks super impressive at kids' parties.

INGREDIENTS

For the cupcakes:

  • 12 store bought vanilla cupcakes, not iced
  • 250 ml (1 cup) Clover Classic Custard (or more, depending on the size of your cupcakes)

 

For the icing:

  • 250 g Clover Mooi River Salted Butter, at room temperature
  • 125 g (1 cup) icing sugar, sieved
  • 10 ml (2 teaspoons) vanilla essence
  • pinch of salt

 

To decorate:

  • Sprinkles, fresh berries or colourful sweets

Method

For the cupcakes:

  1. Make a hole in the middle of the cupcakes, leaving about 1 cm at the bottom so that the custard doesn’t run out (use the back end of a piping nozzle).
  2. Fill a piping bag with custard and pipe the custard into the holes.

 

For the icing

  1. Using an electric whisk, beat the butter in a bowl.
  2. Add half the icing sugar and whisk until well combined.
  3. Add the remaining sugar and whisk until light and fluffy.
  4. Add the vanilla essence and salt. Mix well.
  5. Pipe or smear the icing on top of the filled cupcakes.

 

To decorate:

  1. Decorate the cupcakes with the toppings of your choice.

 

TIPS:

  • You can prepare the cupcakes without decorations the day before and get the kids involved to decorate them as a party activity.
  • You can make chocolate versions by buying (or making) chocolate cupcakes, adding cocoa powder to the icing sugar and decorating with chocolate balls and chocolate shavings.