Monster Mini Cupcakes Recipe

Mini Monster Cupcakes:

1. Combine milk and vinegar in a bowl. Let stand for about 5 minutes, until milk curdles.

2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 24-cup mini muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.

3. Combine ½ cup butter, white sugar, and vanilla sugar in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.

4. Mix ¾ cup plus 1 tablespoon flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Alternate adding flour mixture and curdled milk to the creamed butter mixture, mixing until batter is well blended.

5. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each ¾ full.

6. Bake in the preheated oven for about 14 minutes, until tops spring back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted in the center of 1 cupcake comes back clean.

7. Cool in the muffin tin for a few minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely for about 1 hour.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

1. Combine cream cheese and 1 ¼ cup butter in a bowl. Beat with an electric mixer until well combined.

2. Mix in vanilla extract. Stir in confectioners’ sugar gradually. Color frosting orange with a few drops of food coloring.

3. Place orange frosting in a pastry bag fitted with a grass tip. Hold the pastry bag at a 90-degree angle ⅛ inch above the surface of a cupcake. Squeeze bag to form orange ‘fur’ by pulling tip up and away when the icing strand is about ½ inch high. Repeat to cover cupcake evenly with fur.

4. Add 2 eyes to each cupcake. Cut dried mango into small strips and arrange into the frosting as ‘horns’.

5. Serve to guests and enjoy!