Cup cakes are the perfect way for beginners to get into cake decorating. We’ll show you a recipe for white chocolate cupcakes which you can adapt with whichever colours and flavours you like.

1. How to Make White Chocolate Cupcakes
Cup cakes are the perfect way for beginners to get into cake decorating. We’ll show you a
recipe for white chocolate cupcakes which you can adapt with whichever colours and flavours
you like.
White chocolate cupcake step-by-step cake decorating tutorial

2. Here’s a list of what you need...
You need toppings, colours and cupcake cases
• 12 cupcake cases in whichever style you like
• Food colour (choose fun colours for the
cupcake and the icing)
• A pretty topping like chopped fruit, chocolate
chips or sweeties
White chocolate cupcake step-by-step cake decorating tutorial

3. White chocolate cupcake mixture
Here are the ingredients for the cupcakes
• 175g slightly salted and softened butter
• 350g icing sugar
• 2 tbsp water
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• a bag of white chocolate chips
White chocolate cupcake step-by-step cake decorating tutorial

4. Follow these steps for the perfect white chocolate cupcakes
(part 1)
•This recipe will make 12 medium sized cupcakes
•Preheat the oven to gas mark 5/190 degrees/375 farenheit and pre-fill a 12-hole
muffin tray with your cupcake cases
•In a bowl or electric mixer, cream the caster sugar and butter until the consistency is
very light and fluffy
•The next step is to add the beaten eggs and your vanilla extract for flavour
White chocolate cupcake step-by-step cake decorating tutorial

5. Mixing the cupcake batter (part 2)
• Sift the flour into the bowl and then add it into the mixture with a folding action
• Stir in your white chocolate chips
• You’ll know the mixture is ready to bake when it’s soft enough to drop off the
spoon.
• If it’s the mixture is a bit dry at this stage you can add milk.
White chocolate cupcake step-by-step cake decorating tutorial

6. Baking and cooling (part 3)
• Bake for 12 to 20 minutes until the cupcakes are a beautiful golden brown.
• Spoon the mixture into the cupcake cases – filling only 2/3 of the case with
mixture.
• Leave the cupcakes to cool for a few minutes and then move them to a wire
cooling rack. Allow the cakes to cool completely before you begin to decorate
them.
White chocolate cupcake step-by-step cake decorating tutorial

7. Once you know the basic recipe you can
start to experiment. Liked the raspberry
toppers on the first batch? You can use
practically any fruit as a cupcake topping and
even use their flavours in the mix.
White chocolate cupcake step-by-step cake decorating tutorial

8. Buttercream can be mixed with almost
anything to create infinite cupcake topping
possibilities. From left to right clockwise,
green tea, Oreo cookies and peanut butter.
Don’t limit yourself – go crazy.
White chocolate cupcake step-by-step cake decorating tutorial