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These creamy vanilla cupcakes with their seafood pralines fit perfectly with the children's birthday theme “Under the Sea” or “Mermaid”. Beautifully decorated with mermaids, they are a highlight on the cake table!
My kids are huge mermaid fans right now! They love anything that has to do with seashells, glitter tail fins, or anything remotely related to the mystical sea creature! In keeping with this, there was already the second children's birthday this year with the birthday theme “Mermaid”. Just like her big sister, my little mini also wanted a mermaid birthday for her 4th birthday! Probably the Happy Mermaid-Cake left a lasting impression on my little one. This year there was no birthday picnic with “bubble cake,” but of course there were matching party snacks with the 3D mermaid cookies!
Since we had to celebrate the children's birthday differently than planned due to the current circumstances, we ate “birthday cupcakes” again this weekend with our little cousin and godmother. Of course true to the motto, also with “shell chocolates” and glittery “Mermaid Caketopper” birthday decoration.
The glittery mermaid cake toppers, as well as the beautiful shell party plates with the pretty Mermaid napkins can be found in the versatile online party shop Printfetti.de. In the colorful party shop you won't just find dazzling mermaid party decorations like the under the sea shell garland and the matching under the sea confetti, but a wide variety of decorative items that make every children's birthday and theme party shine in a very special light. There you will definitely find the special extras for the next children's birthday party!
Now that you know where we found our dazzling party decorations, we'll now show you how to bake the delicious vanilla cupcakes that are on the pretty shell plates 😉
Chocolate Mermaid Invitation
With our mermaid banderoles for Ritter Sport Minis you can create a unique invitation for a child's birthday!
A lovingly designed banderole (if necessary with a preconceived invitation text) for parents with little time!
Mini Vanilla Cupcakes Recipe
You can easily make the cupcakes together with your kids. The hardest part for the little ones is piping the mascarpone cream. But if you guide your hand, you should get a result that you can be proud of 🙂 And if the cream dots don't turn out quite as neatly, place a particularly large praline shell on the tip of the swab! 😉
Ingredients for 24 mini vanilla cupcakes
Sponge dough
- 2 eggs
- 125 g margarine
- 75 g sugar
- 1 packet of bourbon vanilla sugar (15 g)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 150 g spelled flour
- 50 ml milk
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
Topping
- 250g mascarpone
- approx. 30 g powdered sugar (sweetness is a matter of taste, sweeten if desired)
- Pulp of a vanilla bean or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- purple & blue food coloring from GoodBake*
- Mermaid sugar pearls*
- 24 seafood pralines
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Baking accessories
Scales, mixer, 2 mixing bowls, small bowl, dough scraper, possibly empty plastic bottle for separating the eggs, measuring cup, cake rack, 2 teaspoons, Mini muffin baking tray (24 muffin tray)*, Mini muffin cups (rainbow colors)*, cling film, scissors, piping bag and piping nozzle (I used the piping tip #8B*)
Preparation
Before we can decorate the mermaid cupcakes, we first bake the mini muffins for the vanilla cupcakes.
We bake the mini vanilla muffins
- First, line the muffin tin with paper muffin cups.
- Preheat oven to 180°C top/bottom heat.
- Separate the eggs (do you know the trick with the plastic bottle? With the negative pressure of the empty plastic bottle, the egg yolk can be easily separated from the egg white by sucking it into the bottle)
- Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff and set aside briefly.
- Mix the egg yolks, sugar, vanilla sugar, vanilla extract and margarine with the mixer. The dough should be whipped until fluffy.
- Weigh the flour and baking powder into a second small bowl and mix well.
- Add the flour-baking powder mix to the dough alternately with the milk and mix well.
- Now carefully fold the beaten egg white into the remaining dough using the spatula
- Using 2 teaspoons, pour the batter into the prepared muffin cups and bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes. Please do the cooking test with the familiar chopstick test, as every oven bakes differently.
- When the muffins for the vanilla cupcakes are cooked, take them out of the oven and place them on the cake rack to cool. I take the mini muffins out of the muffin baking tray.
Vanilla muffins become mermaid cupcakes
- Beat the mascarpone, vanilla extract and powdered sugar together with a hand mixer.
- Divide the mascarpone topping evenly between two bowls and add 2-3 drops of food coloring to each bowl and stir
- Now you assemble the piping bag with the matching nozzle.
- Now place a piece of cling film (approx. 30 cm x 40 cm) on the worktop in front of you and put half of the purple cream in a strip long onto the film. Next to it you spread half of the blue cream. Then repeat this step with the two remaining halves (see picture 4 under “Instructions in pictures”)
- The ends of the cling film are long placed on top of each other to form a roll. Take the open ends in one hand each and twist them together so that the foil encloses the cream tightly (see picture 5 under “Instructions in pictures”).
- Now cut one end open with scissors and fill the cream roll into a piping bag - so that the cut end lies directly against the piping nozzle.
- Now dab thick dots of mascarpone vertically onto the mini muffins from above.
- Finally, each mermaid cupcake is decorated with a seafood praline and pretty sugar pearls
Preparation in pictures
...and the mini cupcakes for the mermaid party are ready! A particularly delicious treasure for the little Mermaid fans on the birthday table!
My kids& I wish you and your kids lots of fun baking and decorating these dazzling mini treats! And even more fun and joy at your own glittering mermaid party!
Yours, Lia
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A colorful thank you
A colorful thank you goes out to Printfetti.de for the beautiful party decoration on the theme of mermaid/under the sea. My minis almost couldn't take their eyes off the pretty mermaid decoration and I really enjoyed the moment watching the minis' excitement! Thank you also for trusting us to evaluate your products with respect and our honest opinion.
A “dazzling” thank you!
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