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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.