Quick and Easy
Watermelon Cupcakes
Details
- Timing
- Timing
- Total:
- Bake:
- 20 Min.
- Prep:
- 25 Min.
- Skill Level:
- Beginner
- Yields:
- 12 cupcakes
These adorable cupcakes frosted to look like watermelon with seeds are a playful and celebratory dessert that will appeal to the young and young at heart.
Ingredients & Directions
- Prep Time
- 25 minutes
- Bake Time
- 20 minutes
- COOK TIME
- 6 minutes
- Cool Time
- 1 hour
BAKE MODE:
Prevent your screen from going dark while you bake.
Ingredients
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Cupcakes:
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1 1/2 cupsall-purpose flour, sifted (375 mL)
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1 1/2 tspsbaking powder (7 mL)
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1/2 tspsalt (2 mL)
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3/4 cupgranulated sugar (175 mL)
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1/2 cupunsalted butter, softened (125 mL)
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2eggs
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2 tspsvanilla extract (10 mL)
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1 tspgreen food colouring (5 mL)
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3/4 cupmilk (175 mL)
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Frosting:
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1/2 cup
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1/2 cupunsalted butter, softened (125 mL)
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1 cupconfectioners’ (icing) sugar, sifted (250 mL)
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2 tbsps
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2 tbsps
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12green paper cupcake liners
Key Ingredients
Directions
Equipment Needed
Oven
Muffin Tin
Handheld Electric Mixer
Bowl
Muffin Liners
Saucepan
Piping Bag
Star Tip
1
Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Line 12 muffin cups with green cupcake liners.
2
Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl.
3
Beat together sugar and butter with handheld electric mixer in large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, incorporating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla and green food colouring.
4
Set mixer on low speed. Beat in flour mixture in 3 parts alternately with milk in 2 parts, starting and ending with flour mixture and scraping bowl as needed between additions.
5
Spoon or scoop batter into prepared muffin cups, filling about two-thirds full.
6
Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until tester comes out clean when inserted into centre of cupcakes. Let cool completely on rack.
7
Frosting: Melt HERSHEY'S CHIPITS Cream Cheese Flavoured chips in heatproof bowl fitted over saucepan of barely simmering water until smooth. (Alternatively, melt in microwave-safe bowl in microwave on MEDIUM heat, stirring every 30 seconds, for 2 to 3 minutes.)
Tip
Substitute HERSHEY'S CHIPITS Cream Cheese Flavoured Chips with HERSHEY'S CHIPITS White Creme Chips if preferred.
8
Beat butter with handheld electric mixer in medium bowl until light and fluffy. Set mixer to low speed. Beat in confectioners’ sugar and HERSHEY'S Strawberry Flavoured Syrup until smooth and blended.
9
Add melted HERSHEY'S CHIPITS Cream Cheese Flavoured chips and increase speed to high. Beat for 1 to 2 minutes or until frosting is light and fluffy. Transfer frosting to piping bag fitted with star tip.
10
Pipe frosting evenly over cupcakes. Garnish each with HERSHEY'S CHIPITS Minis Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips to resemble watermelon seeds.
