Pistachio cupcakes

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

Pistachio cupcakes

Recipe by Chef Soomro 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.