Spiced pumpkin chai cupcakes and chocolate turkeys
I love having an excuse to bake something new! Thanksgiving (even though we don't celebrate this in Australia) was a chance to try out something a little bit different. The pumpkin chai cupcakes were a big hit - some people liked them so much that they cam back for seconds and thirds!
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| thanksgiving cupcakes |
Making the cakes:
These cupcakes were inspired by this recipe from
food52, I ended up using:
- 2 cups plain flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 120g butter
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 500 g pumpkin pie mix
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 2 tsp cinnamon
This made heaps of batter, enough for about 30
medium cupcakes.
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| pie mix from an American store |
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| heaps of batter |
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| the pumpkin cupcakes cooling |
Decorating - Chai frosting:
I basically followed the frosting recipe and instructions from the
food52 recipe. For the chai syrup I used used brown sugar instead of white. I used a plain round tip to pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes, and added a piece of candy corn to finish.
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| chai syrup ingredients |
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| sugar starting to dissolve |
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| finished syrup cooling |
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| frosting ready to be combined |
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chai cream cheese frosting
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| frosted cupcakes |
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pumpkin chai cupcakes with candy corn decoration
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Decorating - Chocolate turkeys:
These super cute turkeys are from a blog I follow called Whipped (http://whippedbaking.com). They are made with candy corn, white chocolate bits with black fondant for eyes and chocolate sprinkles. I used chocolate cream cheese frosting.
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white chocolate bits for the eyes
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| dark chocolate fondant for the heads, black vanilla fondant on white chocolate bits for the eyes with candy corn beaks |
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| turkey cupcake |
