Pansy Cupcakes – The Rose Desk

Take a step into Wonderland with these beautiful Pansy Cupcakes garnished with actual edible flowers. This gorgeous cupcake recipe is ideal for springtime!

Do you know pansies are edible? Sure, this cheap, frequent flower not solely supplies unbelievable colour all winter lengthy but in addition will be added to a wide range of dishes, together with these beautiful cupcakes! Simply swish the blooms in chilly water and let dry earlier than utilizing.

Pansies are available in all kinds of colours and sizes. I embellished a few of these cupcakes with one massive flower or a few smaller flowers. I really like that each cupcake is totally different!

These are finest served day-of as a result of the flowers will begin to wilt as quickly as you chop them. If you wish to bake these cupcakes forward of time, you may bake the cupcakes and freeze them after which simply thaw, frost, and pop pansies on proper earlier than you serve.

I’ve chosen to prime these cupcakes with my Fiori di Sicilia (orange vanilla) frosting right here however be happy to simply do vanilla frosting in the event you desire.

Pansy Cupcakes

2 cups sugar
3 1/4 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, comfortable
1 1/4 cups milk, at room temperature
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 massive eggs
Fiori di Sicilia frosting, recipe follows
Recent pansies

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two muffins pans with cupcake liners and spray with nonstick spray.
2. In a big mixing bowl, whisk collectively the sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. Add butter to the mixer and beat till it seems to be sandy.
4. Mix the milk and vanilla and add to the mixer. Combine on low velocity till integrated. Don’t neglect to scrape the bowl as you go!
5. Crack eggs right into a bowl. This manner, you received’t by chance get egg shells in your cake batter. With the mixer operating on low, add eggs one by one. Make sure that every is integrated earlier than including the subsequent.
6. Divide batter evenly amongst twenty-four cupcake liners.  Bake for  20-22 minutes or till a toothpick inserted within the middle will come out clear.
7. Take away the cupcakes from the oven and funky for 5 minutes earlier than eradicating them from the pan. Cool fully.
8. Dunk pansies right into a bowl of chilly water, swishing round to scrub them. Take away and set on a paper towel to dry fully.
9. Frost cupcakes as desired with Fiori di Sicilia Frosting and prime as desired with pansies.

Fiori di Sicilia Frosting

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
5 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1 tsp fiori di sicilia (orange vanilla) extract*
2-3 Tbsp milk

Glad baking,

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