Celebrate Beauty and the Beast with Belle’s Teacup Cupcakes

I can’t believe that a movie that was animated is now a real life with real actors in it will be released this weekend. Beauty and the Beast has always been one of my favorite movies. In fact, just recently I was remembering this movie during one of Gracie’s quinceañera dance practices.

Doesn’t it totally look like the poster of Belle dancing with Beast?

So here is a new way to celebrate the release. Make these Belle Teacup Cupcakes.

Belle Teacup Cupcakes

Cupcake Recipe:

• 2½ cups flour
• 1½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• ½ cup butter, soft, plus 4 tbsp.
• ¼ cup softened shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 TBSP Red Velvet extract
• 1 cup milk
• Red and yellow gel food color
• Edible Rose cupcake toppers
• Clear teacups

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Line cupcake tins with paper liners.
• Sift flour, baking soda, and salt altogether.
• Mix the dry ingredients with a wire whisk for 3 minutes
• In a separate bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter, shortening, and sugar until it is light and creamy.
• Add the egg and vanilla
• Mix well.
• Add flour mix and milk, 1/2 portion of each at a time, mix until completely combined.
• Split the batter into two.
• Add red food coloring to one batter and add yellow food coloring to the other bowl
• Spoon the batters into their cupcake tins until 2/3’s filled.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool for 10 minutes
• Remove from cupcake tins to a wire rack until totally cooled.
• Once cooled, peel the paper off the red cupcakes and put the cupcakes into a bowl, crumble them into fine crumbs
• Take the yellow cupcakes and crumble into their bowls.
• Take the little tea cups and layer 1 TBSP of the red cake crumbs first.

• Then repeat with the yellow crumbs

• Repeat with both cake crumbs until you have two layers of red cake crumbs and two layers of yellow.

• Make the attached frostings.
• And then follow the directions

Green Vanilla Royal Icing

Ingredients: 

• 1 egg white
• 1 1/2 C powder sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 cream of tartar
• green gel food coloring
• piping bag
• #70 piping tip

Directions

• Combine all ingredients into a standing mixture
• Beat on medium speed until stiff peaks form.
• Add in the green gel coloring
• Take the piping bag and cut the tip off to fit the tip
• Add in the green royal icing to the piping bag

Vanilla Frosting 

• Add the butter into a standing mixer until fluffy
• Mix on low.
• Slowly add powdered sugar and vanilla until blended.
• Add in the Yellow food coloring,
• Add the frosting to a large star tipped pastry bag.
• Twist the open end of the pastry bag to force the frosting to the tip.
• Pipe a little bit of frosting onto the top of the tea cups.
• Place a rose in the middle of the frosting and pipe a leaf using the green royal icing.

Enjoy!

 

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