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Bonfire night: How to bake realistic bonfire cupcakes

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Want to add some tasty treats to your bonfire night party?

Try baking! Fin, who won Junior Bake Off 2019 aged 13, stole the judge's hearts with his 'Winner Bakes It All' cake and now he's designed a showstopper you can make at home.

We've got Fin's recipe here for you, with a step by step video guide, so you can make these cute bonfire cupcakes to impress all your mates.

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Ingredients

For the cupcakes:

  • 140g melted unsalted butter

  • 140g caster sugar

  • 2 eggs

  • 50ml vegetable oil (or just any flavourless oil)

  • 115g self-rising flour

  • 25g cocoa powder

  • ½ a tsp of baking powder

  • some hazelnut (or other)chocolate spread for the filling

  • For the buttercream:

  • 250g of soft unsalted butter

  • 500g icing sugar

  • Red, orange and tallow food colouring

  • For the decorations:

  • chocolate sticks

  • mini marshmallows

  • cocktail sticks

Method

  1. First we need to wash our hands and preheat the oven to 170c

  2. For the cupcakes mix together the butter, sugar eggs and oil until it is all one colour and smooth

  3. Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powder into a bowl and fold them together with a spatula until there are no lumps of flour

  4. Add the batter to a piping bag and pipe the batter into the cupcake cases and then place them into the oven to bake for 15 to 20 minutes, you will know when the cakes are baked when you can insert a cocktail stick into the centre and it comes out clean

  5. Leave the cakes to cool on a wire rack until they are fully cool

  6. Make a hole in the centre of the cakes and pipe in the chocolate spread until they are full

  7. Place the cakes in the fridge until the chocolate spread has set

  8. To make the buttercream whisk the butter until it is pale and then slowly add the icing sugar in stages so it does not make the buttercream grainy

  9. Divide the icing between three bowls and add the colouring into the buttercream

  10. Add the buttercream into three separate piping bags, with the red having the largest nozzle, the orange having the medium nozzle and the yellow having the smallest nozzle

  11. Take the cupcakes out of the fridge and pipe the red buttercream in the centre of the cake and then pipe the orange on top of that and then the yellow on top of the orange so it looks like a fire

  12. Poke 4 holes in the cupcakes for the chocolates to go in and place the chocolate into the holes and snap the excess off the top of them, do this to all of the cakes and set them to one side

  13. Add some marshmallows onto the cocktail sticks and place them on the chocolates so they hold the marshmallows up

  14. Finally you can enjoy these cupcakes and trust me they taste AMAZING !

Fin

Thanks again Fin! Are you going to try this bake? Let us know in the comments!

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