Under the Big Top Cupcakes |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 24 |
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Bright colors and circus animals are guaranteed to make kids of all ages smile and to make any day a celebration. Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened |
1 cup shortening |
2 cups sugar |
4 large eggs |
2 3/4 cups all-purpose soft-wheat flour |
2 teaspoons baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
1 cup buttermilk |
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract |
1 1/2 teaspoon almond extract |
paper baking cups |
vegetable cooking spray |
multicolored confetti sprinkles |
1/2 cup butter, softened |
3 to 4 tablespoons whipping cream |
1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract |
1/8 teaspoon salt |
1 (16-oz.) package powdered sugar |
food coloring gel in your favorite colors |
sugar circus animals |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Stir in extracts. Stir in 1/3 cup multicolored confetti sprinkles.
3. Place paper baking cups in 2 (12-cup) muffin pans, and coat with cooking spray; spoon batter into cups, filling two-thirds full.
4. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks, and cool completely.
5. To prepare Vanilla Frosting, beat first 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating at low speed until blended. Beat at high speed 2 minutes or until creamy. Make 3 cups.
6. Tint Vanilla Frosting with food coloring gels of your choice. Frost each cupcake with tinted frosting. Roll edges of each cupcake in confetti sprinkles, and top each with 1 sugar circus animal.
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