These fairly cupcakes are excellent for a special day. The flavoured syrup assist the truffles keep moist, so you can also make them a day forward and adorn the following day

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:2 hrs
  • Cook dinner:25 minutes
• Extra effort
• makes 24

• Vegetarian

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Components

• 300g golden caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 300g butter, melted and cooled
• 300g self-raising flour

For the flavoured syrup

• 300g golden caster sugar
• 1 tbsp dried lavender flowers

For the buttercream icing

• 400g butter, softened
• 550g icing sugar
• 3 meals colourings gels (we used purple, yellow and pink)

For the butterfly wings

• 400g white chocolate
• 3 meals colourings gels (we used purple, yellow and pink)
• 2 chocolate biscuits, crushed (we used Oreos however eliminated the white filling)

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Warmth oven to 180C/160C fan/gasoline 4 and line two 12-hole cupcake tins with paper muffin instances. Put all of the cake elements in a big bowl and whisk with an electrical whisk for 3-4 minutes or till pale and lightweight. Divide the combination evenly among the many 24 instances and bake for 20 minutes or till a skewer inserted into the centre of a cake comes out clear. Depart to chill on a wire rack.

• STEP 2

  Whereas the cupcakes bake, make the syrup. Put the sugar, lavender and 300ml water in a medium pan over a low warmth. Carry step by step to the boil, cook dinner for two minutes, then flip off the warmth and depart to infuse. When chilly, pressure by means of a sieve right into a small jug.

• STEP 3

  To make the icing, put the butter, icing sugar and 100ml of the syrup in a big bowl. Combine with a picket spoon, then change to an electrical whisk and whisk till easy and fluffy. Divide the combination between three bowls. Add a tiny dot of meals colouring gel to every bowl to make three completely different colors of buttercream – stir to combine, then switch half of every color to disposable piping luggage.

• STEP 4

  Use a cocktail persist with poke just a few little holes within the high of the cupcakes, then drizzle every with 1 tsp of the syrup. Put 1 heaped tsp of icing onto every cake (do eight of every color) and swirl it spherical with the again of the spoon to fully cowl the highest. Subsequent, use the matching piping bag to pipe a straight line about 2-3 cm lengthy throughout the center of every cake.

• STEP 5

  To make the wings, soften the white chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water. Divide into three smaller bowls and add the identical gel colors as earlier than. Minimize 8cm squares of baking parchment and, utilizing a pen, draw a pair of butterfly wings on every sq. in order that the design reveals by means of on the opposite aspect or, if you happen to choose, hint the design under. Flip the paper over and, utilizing the road as a information, paint on the melted chocolate. Sprinkle crushed biscuits on the sides to create patterns, then depart to set. As soon as set, gently push the wings into the cupcakes at a 45-degree angle.