Cupcake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 25 mins; recipe has pistachio, caster sugar, butter, egg, self-raising flour, milk, edible glitter, icing sugar and food colouring.
Pistachio cupcakes
Course: Cupcake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 2 eggs
- Milk: 5 tbsp milk
- Butter: 140g butter, very soft
- Caster Sugar: 140g golden caster sugar
- Self Raising Flour: 140g self-raising flour
- Pistachio: 100g pistachios
- Icing Sugar: 250g icing sugar, sifted
- Edible Glitter: edible glitter, to decorate
- Food Colouring: mint green food colouring
Directions
- Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with cases. Put 85g pistachios into a food processor with about half the sugar, then whizz until very finely chopped. Tip into a large mixing bowl with the remaining sugar, butter, eggs, flour and milk and beat until smooth. Divide between cases, then bake on a low shelf for 22-25 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
- For the icing, mix just enough water into the icing sugar to get a very thick but still runny icing - just add 1 tbsp of water at a time. Stir in enough food colouring to give a pretty, pale green colour. If any cakes poke above the top of the cases, trim with a small knife, or scoop out with a teaspoon - being very careful not to release any of the case from the sides of the cake. Put a generous spoonful of icing on each cake and let it gently spread to cover. Chop the remaining pistachios and scatter these over with a pinch of edible glitter. Set, then serve.