10 Quick And Easy Cupcake Recipes For Kids

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Kids love cupcakes for various reasons. One of the most interesting reason for kids prefer cupcakes is because of its size. These small cakes are perfect for the little hands. Some love the topping of the cup cakes and would love to experiment with different colours, shapes, flavours, and sprinkles. Boys may prefer action figures while the girls may prefer dolls as their cupcake toppings. Some like to experiment with the ingredients and experiment by adding nuts, Choco chips, and sometimes even prefer fillings like jam, preserved berries and cream.
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10 Quick And Easy Cupcake Recipes For Kids

Before you take out your aprons and chef hats, here are some important guidelines that you should remember before you start baking cupcakes. These include:

All the ingredients should be at room temperature
The oven settings should be same as the recipe demands
No need to add baking powder if you are using self-raising flour
If you are adding nuts, berries or raisins to your batter, coat it with the flour before adding to the mixture. Otherwise, they may sink down
Whenever you are mixing the batter either manually or with the help of an electric blender, remember to mix everything in one direction only to get soft cupcakes

Here are ten quick, easy and “fun to make” cupcake recipes which you can whip for your kids or even better , bake it along with them. Each recipe makes 12 to 18 cupcakes approximately.

Basic Vanilla Cupcake With Chocolate Toppings

This is the easiest and basic recipe for a beginners. After making these cupcakes, it will be very easy to change the ingredients and make different coloured and flavoured cupcakes.
Ingredients Required For Basic Vanilla Cupcake:

Butter, softened: 110 g
Caster sugar: 110 g
Plain flour: 110 g
Baking powder: 2 tsp
Salt: 1/4 tsp
Eggs: 2
Vanilla extract: 1 tsp

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degree C
Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat preferably with an electronic whisk if there is no electronic whisk, beat thoroughly with a wooden spoon until the mixture turns pale and fluffy
Put the flour, baking powder and salt through a sieve into the bowl. Sieving is done to remove the lumps and large particles from the flour mixture
Beat the eggs and vanilla until it become fluffy and thick and triple in volume
Add this mixture into the bowl with flour
Fold in with a metallic spoon carefully
Line a muffin tin with paper cases
Spoon the mixture into the paper cases. You might have to use two spoons – one to scoop and the other one to slide the batter into paper cases
The cases should be filled about just above half
Bake for 20 minutes
Cool the cupcakes completely before adding the topping

Ingredients Required For Chocolate Toppings:

Icing sugar : 1 1/4 cup
Softened butter : 1/4 cup
Milk : 1 tbsp
Cocoa powder : 1 tbsp

Method:
Beat the butter until it become fluffy. Now sieve in icing sugar and cocoa. Mix and combine well. Take the mixture in a piping bag. (There are different types of nozzles tip available. You can even buy piping bag set online.) decorate the cupcake according to your wish. Instead of cocoa you can add any other flavours you like or even food colours. Adjust the quantity of milk you add accordingly.
vanilla cupckae with chocolate topping

Banana Cup Cake With Passion Fruit Topping

Ingredients Required For Banana Cupcake:

Butter : 125g
Brown sugar : 3/4 cup( firmly packed)
Eggs: 2
Maida : 2 cups
Baking powder – 1 1/2 tsp
Salt – 1/2 tsp
Mixed spice powder : 1 tsp
Mashed banana: 1 cup
Sour cream: 3/4 cup
Milk : 1 tablespoon

Method:

Follow the first 5 steps of the procedure of normal cupcake. Add the mixed spice powder to the mixture
Add softened butter along with banana, sour cream and milk to this mixture
Pour this mixture in the cupcake liner or muffin tray equally
Bake for about 20-25 minutes
Cool it completely before proceeding for icing it

Ingredients Required For Passionfruit icing:

Icing-sugar: 1 1/2 cups
Soft butter: 1 tsp
Passionfruit pulp: 2 tbsp

Method:
Combine all the above ingredient in a bowl which is heat proof. Now place the bowl over a pan of boiling water. Using the double boiler method, mix all the ingredients until you get a spreadable consistency. Spread this topping over the cooled cupcakes.
banana cupcake

Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients Required For Chocolate Cupcake:

Butter: 100 g
Caster sugar: 2/3rd cup
Vanilla essence: 1 tsp
Whole eggs (lightly beaten): 2
Maida: 1 cup
Baking Powder: 1 tsp
Cocoa powder: 1/3 cup
Baking soda: 1/2 tsp
Milk: 1/2 cup

Method:

Preheat oven at 180°C
Using an electric blender, blend together butter, sugar and vanilla essence till they are creamy and fluffy. Slowly add eggs and mix well
Shift together flour, cocoa and baking soda
Add these dry ingredients to the wet ingredient and mix well with milk
Line cupcake tins with paper liners
Spoon mixture into the paper liner and bake at 180 degree C for 15 – 20 minutes or till the cupcakes are ready

chocolate cupcake

Sponge cupcakes

Ingredients Required For Chocolate Cupcake:

Caster sugar: 115g
Self-raising flour: 115g
Butter: 115g
Eggs: 2

Method:

Set oven to 150 degree C
Next just put all ingredients into a bowl and then mix them well
Add this mixture to the cupcake tray and bake for 15-20 minutes or till fully done

sponge cupcake

Carrot-Walnut Cup Cake

Ingredients Required For Carrot Walnut Cupcake:

White sugar: 1 cup
Oil: 1/3 cup
Orange juice: 2 tbsp
Vanilla essence: 1 tsp
Eggs: 2
Salt: 1/2 tsp
Baking powder: 1 tsp
Soda bicarbonate: 1/2 tsp
Ground allspice: 1/2 tsp
Maida : 3/4 cup plus 2 tsp
Carrots ( shredded): 1 1/2 cup
Walnuts (chopped): 1/2 Cup

Method:

Preheat oven at 180 degree C
Mix together sugar, orange juice, vanilla essence, vegetable oil and eggs in a bowl and whisk it to get a smooth mixture
To this mixture add in baking powder, baking soda, grounded allspice, and salt
Fold in the flour
Now add the carrots, walnuts, and coconut
Equally divide the batter and put it in all the muffin cups
Bake for around 25 minutes or till it is fully cooked

carrot walnut cupcake

Strawberry Cup Cake

Ingredients Required For Strawberry Cup Cake:

Sugar : 2 cups
Strawberry puree : 1 3/4 cups
Oil: 3/4 cup
Eggs : 4
Vanilla essence : 2 tsp
Maida: 3 cups
Baking powder: 1 tsp
3 drops red food coloring (optional)

Method:

Preheat oven to 170 degrees C
Mix together sugar, strawberry puree, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract in a bowl with an electric blender until smooth
Add sieved flour slowly and use cut and fold method to mix
If using food coloring, this is the time to add it to the mixture to get an even color
Pour the batter equally into muffin cups lined with paper muffin liners
Bake in a preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes

strawberry cupcake

Apple-Cinnamon Cup Cake

Ingredients Required For Apple-Cinnamon Cup Cake:

Maida: 1 1/2 cups
Sugar : 3/4 cup
Baking powder : 2 tsp
Ground cinnamon: 1 tsp
Salt : 1/2 tsp
Oil : 1/3 cup
Egg : 1
Milk : 1/3 cup
Apples – peeled, cored and chopped : 2

Ingredients Required For Crumble:

Sugar : 1/2 cup
Maida: 1/3 cup
Butter, cubed : 1/2 cup
Ground cinnamon: 1 1/2 tsp

Method:

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C
Mix together maida, sugar, salt, baking powder and cinnamon
Add in the wet ingredients like the oil, milk and eggs
Fold in the chopped apples
Put the batter into prepared muffin cups, filling to the top of the cup
In a small bowl, mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup maida, butter and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Sprinkle this mixture over the unbaked muffins
Bake the muffins in a preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes

apple and cinnamn cupcake

Dry Fruit Cup Cake

Ingredients Required For Dry Fruit Cup Cake:

Softened butter: 150 g
Dark brown sugar: 150 g
Self-raising flour: 200 g
Eggs: 3
Almond extract: 1 tsp
Mixed nuts (chopped ): 50 g
Mixed dried fruit: 75 g

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180°C
Mix together the butter, sugar, flour, eggs and almond extract in a bowl with the help of an electric blender
To this mixture, add the chopped nuts and dried fruits and mix well
Pour the mixture into the muffin tray
Bake these muffins in a preheated oven for 25 minutes

dry fruit cupcake

Nutella Cup Cake

Ingredients Required For Nutella Cup Cake:

Eggs: 3 cups
Nutella : 375g
Self-raising flour: 150g

Method:

Pre-heat your oven to 160ºC
Put all of your ingredients into a large bowl and mix until fully combined
Grease muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners
Divide the mixture evenly between the cupcake cases
Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes
Once cooked, take them out of the muffin tray and let them cool
Serve them plain or top them with Nutella buttercream

Nutella cupcke

Orange Cup Cake

Ingredients Required For Orange Cup Cake:

Maida – 1 cup
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Salt – one pinch
White sugar – 3/4 cup
Oil – 1/3 cup
Egg – 1
Orange essence – 1 1/2 tsp
Orange Zest – 1/2 tsp (Dried and powdered)
Curd – 1/3 cup
Fresh orange juice – 1/3 cup
Orange food color – 2-3 drops

Method:

Preheat oven to 175 degrees C
Shift together maida, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Set aside
Blend sugar and oil together in bowl with an electric blender
Add in an egg to this mixture and mix well
Add orange essence and orange food colour
Add the dry ingredients to it
When the mixture becomes a little thick and hard to mix, add curd and mix well
Add orange juice and mix until everything is combined nicely
The batter is ready. Pour the batter in the cupcake tray
Bake for 10 – 15 minutes or until fully done

orange cupcke
Do try these recipes and let us know which one was your favourite. Do leave in the comments section below as to which cupcake your kid loved the most.

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