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Mini Panda Cupcakes

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Recipe Summary Mini Panda Cupcakes

These chocolate mini cupcakes are decorated as little panda bears. The proportions work best for mini cupcakes.

Ingredients | Christmas Cupcakes Decorating

9 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

5 tablespoons boiling water, or as needed

¾ cup unsalted butter

¾ cup white sugar

2 tablespoons white sugar

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

3 eggs

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

¼ cup unsalted butter

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted

¼ cup white sugar

180 miniature semisweet chocolate chips

2 tablespoons chocolate sprinkles

1 ounce fondant, ready-to-use, white

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease one 24-cup mini muffin tin and one 12-cup mini muffin tin or line cups with paper liners.

Sift cocoa powder into a large bowl and add 5 tablespoons boiling water. Stir into a thick paste, adding more water, 1 tablespoon at a time, if needed. Add 3/4 cup butter and 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar and beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition, until batter is smooth.

Mix flour and baking powder in a bowl and stir into the batter until well combined. Spoon batter into the prepared mini muffin cups using an ice cream scoop, filling each 2/3 to the top.

Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed and a toothpick comes out clean, 10 to 12 minutes. Allow to cool in muffin tin for a few minutes; transfer to wire rack and cool completely, about 30 minutes.

Combine cream cheese and 1/4 cup butter in a bowl; beat with an electric mixer until well combined. Mix in vanilla extract. Stir in confectioners' sugar gradually.

Frost each cupcake with a layer of white frosting. Pour white sparkling sugar into a small bowl and dunk each frosted cupcake into the sugar, so the frosting is evenly covered.

Place 2 chocolate chips into the middle of each cupcake for the eyes with the pointy side facing the cupcake. Place 1 chocolate chip with the pointy side pointing down for the nose, like an upside-down triangle. Make a mouth with 3 chocolate sprinkles in the shape of an anchor. Place 2 chocolate chips on top of the cupcakes for the ears.

Roll fondant into tiny balls for the eyes, smaller than the mini chocolate chips, and stick 1 half piece of chocolate sprinkle into each ball for the pupils. Glue eyes onto the 2 eye chocolate chips with some frosting.

If you don't need that many mini cupcakes, just make the amount you need and bake regular- sized cupcakes with the rest of the batter. You need to adjust the baking time, probably more like 20 minutes, just keep checking with a toothpick.

You can also use small sugar eyeballs instead of making the eyeballs out of fondant yourself.

Info | Christmas Cupcakes Decorating

prep: 1 hr cook: 10 mins additional: 30 mins total: 1 hr 40 mins Servings: 36 Yield: 36 mini cupcakes

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