Pudsey (Children in Need) Inspired Cupcake Recipe

Hello everyone, Children In Need is such a brilliant cause so why not make cupcakes to raise awareness for it. The link to the official page will be at the bottom of this blog so please donate (only if you can) The live show will be on Friday 13th November (hopefully not unlucky though!) if you want to watch along. Anyway here are some Pudsey inspired cupcakes. To make these cupcakes extra special they will have a whole in the top which will be filled with smarties, sponge coloured yellow and decorations on top to make these cupcakes extra special. But don't worry they are still easy to make! Anyway sorry this intro is so long, let's just get into the baking! (This Bakes 24 cupcakes, the more the merrier! )

You Will Need:

For The Cupcakes:

• 230g Unsalted Butter
• 230g Self Raising Flour
• 230g Caster Sugar
• 4 Medium Eggs
• 4 tsp Vanilla Extracts 
• Yellow Food Colouring

For The Butter Cream:

• 75g Unsalted Butter
• 150g Icing Sugar 
• Yellow Food Colouring 

 Extras:

• Mini Smarties (or normal size one i just thought these where cuter!
• Sprinkles!
• Chocolate Chips

Method: 

• Preheat your oven to 180 (fan) (200C / gas mark 6). 

• Make a simple vanilla cupcake batter, if you would like the full break down of ingredients Click Here.
• Colour your batter yellow ( because obviously pudsey is yellow!) i made mine quite bright to make them extra special.

• Seperate the batter among 24 cases and bake for 15-20 minutes.
• Once your cakes are cooled cut out a small hole in the top and fill with treats of your choice, I used mini smarties and they looked super cute but.. don't through away the bit you cut out because those are going to be Pudsey's ears and cut Pudsey's ears in half so he has two!

• Make your buttercream if you would like the full break down of ingredients (although use these measurements as we are baking 24 with not a massive amount of butter cream) Click Here.
• Separate your butter cream colouring most of it yellow but still leaving some white.
• Cover your secret smarties with the yellow butter cream, I used a piping bag to make it neater.
• Using Butter cream as a glue place on both of Pudsey's ears.
• Using the white Butter cream make a stripe from the middle of his head to the right side (as you are looking down at them) again I used a piping bag for this step.

• decorate the white stripe with colourful sprinkles and there you have Pudsey's eye patch / bandage.
• Add a chocolate chip on the other side as his eye you could also use these to make his nose and mouth.  

 Your Done! once again the link to the children in need official website will be down below and donate if you can! Hope you enjoy your cupcakes!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/childreninneed    


Also go check out this blog; we are hopefully doing a collab soon!

http://boxofchatter1.blogspot.co.uk/