Twilight Sparkle Cupcakes

Hello again everypony!

Today we'll be making cupcakes inspired by Twilight Sparkle. and in true Twilight fashion, I had a meltdown while making these because something didn't go quite right. (but to be honest that happens every time)

You will need:
1 1/4 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cocoa powder
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 egg
red and blue food coloring
1/2 tsp white vinegar
1/2 tsp vanilla
white whipped frosting
pink sprinkles

First, mix all the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder) in a large bowl together.
Then, mix all the wet ingredients (vegetable oil, buttermilk, egg, vinegar, and vanilla) in a second bowl. Add the food coloring to this until it makes just the right shade of purple as Twilight's coat. I used about 7 drops of red and 6 drops of blue.
Mix the two bowls together.

Once everything is mixed, pour it into your cupcake pan. Just one pan, 12 cupcakes total.

I know my liners are fish. This is where my meltdown came in, when I realized I didn't have any paper ones. These are silicone and are actually better, but they don't quite go with these cupcakes.
Bake your cupcakes for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

Once your cupcakes have cooled, mix blue and red food coloring into white frosting to get the color of Twilight's mane. I used 6 drops blue with 4 drops red.

They look better in reality, but the flash was on my camera and ruined the color.
Top with some pink sprinkles. Try to get them in a line like the stripe on her mane, if you can.

And that's it! Purple velvet cupcakes, inspired by Twilight Sparkle. I hope everypony enjoys them!



Cupcake recipe was modified from a recipe found on The Stubbie Chef.

Fluttershy Cupcakes

I'm sorry, I don't have a lot of pictures for this one. But I'll give you the recipe anyways so you can make these cupcakes. If you want to, or not, either way's okay.

You're going to need:
1 package yellow cake mix
2/3 cup oil (or whatever your cake mix calls for)
4 eggs (again, whatever the cake mix calls for)
zest of one lemon
1 pint whipping cream
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup diced strawberries

Mix the cake mix according to the package directions.
Stir in the lemon zest. You can add more or less so that it's just right for you.
Pour the batter into a cupcake pan and cook according to package directions.

When the cupcakes come out and while they're cooling, you can make strawberry whipped cream.
With an electric mixer, mix together the whipping cream, sugar, and vanilla, until it makes stiff peaks.
Fold in the strawberries.

Spoon the whipped cream on top of the cupcakes. The cream needs to be kept cold, so you might want to store it in the fridge until you're ready to serve the cupcakes. I mean, if that's okay with you.

The frosting does look pinker than that. I'm sorry, I had to take this with my cell phone camera. I really wish I could have gotten better pictures for you. I'm sorry.

I hope you like the cupcakes!

Applejack Cupcakes

Hey y'all!

So ah bet you want to try some delicious Applejack-inspired cupcakes. Ah'm gonna show you how to make them.

They're gonna be apple pie cupcakes. They just ain't Applejack without some apple in them!

Y'all will need:

3 c flour

1 tbsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

1 c plus 2 tbsp unsalted butter

2 c  plus 2 tbsp sugar

4 eggs

1 ½ tsp vanilla extract (That's what the recipe calls for, but ah only used 1/2 tsp and it came out fine)

1 c milk

2 tsp cinnamon

3 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and diced (Ah used apples from my school's dining commons. Weren't Granny Smiths, but they tasted just fine. And they were free.)

Line your cupcake pan with tin foil.

Ah only did this because ah couldn't find paper liners. But it's got the advantage of lookin' like a pie tin.

Mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Cream together 1 cup of the butter with 2 cups of sugar (or 1 cup sugar-Splenda mix, which is what ah did)

Beat the eggs into the mix.

Bake at 350 for 18-22 minutes.

Meanwhile, peel an' dice yer apples.

Cook the apples with the rest of the butter an' sugar, an' the cinnamon.

Cupcakes out a' the oven. Don't they look nice?

When the cupcakes are cool, carve a li'l hole in each one.

Put some a' yer apple pie fillin' in the hole. And y'all have some delicious apple pie cupcakes!

 

 

Recipe for the cupcakes is from Annie's Eats

Rarity Cupcakes

It's about time Rarity gets the spotlight, don't you think?

This is the beautiful white velvet cupcake with purple frosting. And of course, you will be making this from scratch. It might be hard work, and if you do it exactly as I did, it will be a huge mess, but it will be worth it.

You will need:
2 c flour
2 tsp baking power
1 tsp salt, plus a pinch for egg whites
½ c (1 stick) unsalted butter
1 ¼ c sugar
2/3 c milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs (whites only
1 c mini-marshmallows
1 can vanilla frosting
blue & red food coloring
dash cocoa powder

 Mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites with the pinch of salt until they are fluffy and form stiff peaks.

In yet another bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar.

Combine the butter and sugar with the flour mixture and the milk. This will be sticky and quite tough, so you may want to use the beater again.

Fold the egg whites into your dough.

 Add the mini marshmallows and fold in.

Fill your cupcake pans 2/3 full. It won't make a full 24 cupcakes. I was lucky in how many it made--I had exactly 14 papers left!

Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Careful, though--you can see the marshmallows dripping out in there! As I said before, this will cause a bit of a mess.

Take them out and let them cool.

Take the vanilla frosting and mix it with the food coloring. It's very difficult to get the deep rich color of Rarity's mane, but do the best you can. Add a dash of cocoa powder for a subtly chocolate flavor.

This is a tricky step I should not have attempted, but I'll tell you how. Spoon the frosting into a ziplock bag, seal it, and cut off a corner. Then you have a makeshift icing bag, and can frost your cupcakes in the delicate way shown on that first cupcake at the top of the post.

Unfortunately for me, the bag popped after frosting that one. There was frosting everywhere. It was really quite disgusting.
I sounded like this:

I salvaged what I could of the frosting and finished the other cupcakes by spreading the frosting with a knife. I don't think I'll be trying an icing bag again.

They don't look so bad, now, do they? If you'd like to have a little extra sparkle, as I chose to do, use silver glitter sprinkles or white coarse sugar. It's just that perfect little touch to make these cupcakes as exquisite as Rarity herself.


The white velvet cupcake recipe is from How To Eat A Cupcake. It's a good blog for anyone interested in baking.

Pinkie Pie Cupcakes

Hi everypony!

So we're going to make some delicious Pinkie Pie inspired cupcakes!

Don't they look great?

Okay, here's what you'll need:

Funfetti cake mix (or generic brand 'confetti', but funfetti is so much more fun to say! it's got 'fun' in the name!)
Vegetable oil
Eggs
Pink vanilla funfetti frosting
Sprinkles! Lots of sprinkles!
Cupcake pan
Cupcake papers
Mixing bowl
Spoon
Measuring cups
and you'll also need some red food coloring.
aaaaand ignore those strawberries there, we'll get to those.

Preheat your oven to 350. (Mine wouldn't get there for some reason!)

Make the cupcake batter according to the box.

Make it pink! Add some red food coloring, 4-5 drops.

Pour the batter into the cupcake tray. It might not make as many as it says, but that's okay! They'll still be tasty and sweet!

Bake them for about 20 minutes. They don't look really pink right here, but they are on the inside!

Now, the funfetti frosting directions say to sprinkle the confetti on top, but there's no fun in that! Stir in the sprinkles!

Frost the cupcakes!

And add sprinkles! Pink sprinkles! Aren't they delicious?

Now what about the strawberries from earlier? I decided to make two recipes, since I just couldn't make up my mind on those! So read on to make PINKIE PIE STRAWBERRY SURPRISE CUPCAKES!

Chop up about a pint of strawberries. But set the very best looking ones aside for a garnish for later.

Stir the strawberries into the prepared cupcake batter. (Use the same funfetti batter! I set aside half just for this.)

Fill up the cupcake tray, and bake for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, cut your garnish strawberries in half.

Don't forget to let the cupcakes cool before frosting!

Use the same pink vanilla frosting, but no extra sprinkles this time.

Put your garnish strawberries on top, and they're done! Eat them or share them with all your friends!