Tasty Tuesdays with Gab: Lucky Charms Cupcakes
March 20, 2018
Saint Patrick’s Day was this past weekend so of course I made something tasty! There were so many different desserts for me to choose from but I decided on something that pretty much everyone likes, cupcakes! But not just regular cupcakes, these were lucky charms cupcakes!
I began by making a simple vanilla cupcake recipe and preheating my oven to 350°. To make the cupcakes, I mixed the dry ingredients together first (flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt). I set aside the dry ingredients and then mixed together the milk, vegetable oil, vanilla extract and eggs together in my kitchen aid mixer. Then I slowly added the dry ingredients to the wet until fully combined. Lastly, I mixed in a cup of water in increments.
I baked the cupcakes in a mini cupcake pan for about 17 minutes, but you can use a regular sized pan for the same amount of time!
While the cupcakes baked, I made the frosting. To make the vanilla buttercream frosting, mix together the unsalted butter, vanilla, milk and powdered sugar. You can add food coloring like I did if you’d like to!
Once the cupcakes were finished baking, I put them in the freezer for about 20 minutes to cool. After they were cool I frosted them and put five or six lucky charms on each cupcakes.
CUPCAKE RECIPE:
2 ½ cups flour
2 cups sugar
3 teaspoon baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup milk
½ vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 cup of water
FROSTING RECIPE:
3 cups powdered sugar
⅓ cup softened unsalted butter
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons of milk
You will also need:
Lucky Charms cereal
