{"id":18808,"date":"2021-10-27T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/?p=18808"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:07:05","slug":"slime-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/2021\/10\/27\/slime-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Slime Cupcakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delicious scaretastic slime cupcakes with a black chocolate sponge, chocolate black buttercream frosting, and a gooey white chocolate slime drizzle and centre! <\/span><\/h2>\n

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Halloween<\/h3>\n

When I think of halloween, I think of all things scaretastic, and I am obsessed. One thing I love to watch on tv at halloween though, is the ghostbusters films. I just think all the ghosts and slime makes such a good theme, I had to do something. <\/span><\/p>\n

Slimer is one of the most hilarious characters in a film that I have ever seen – not scary at all to me, but leaving a gooey disgusting slime on everyone\u2026 why not make a bake about that?! All the green. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Food colouring and cupcakes cases<\/h3>\n

I will admit early on in these slime cupcakes, there is a fair amount of food colouring, and your tongue may look a little weird after baking – but that\u2019s totally fine in my eyes. If you are using good quality colouring like I recommend then you don\u2019t use much to get good results, so it\u2019s perfect! You can see from my rainbow cake<\/a> how using good quality food colouring really pays off!<\/span><\/p>\n

So for this bake I decided to use black cases<\/a>, along with a black sponge – to make it all dark and scareilicious. I will try and stop with the puns at some point\u2026 but I am unsure I ever will. I am fully in the mode of halloween baking! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Black sponge<\/h3>\n

To make a black sponge for these slime cupcakes, you need to use a chocolate base – I use this cocoa powder<\/a> which is 100% cacao and really dark, so it is a good base for the sponge. I then use this really good quality black food colouring to make sure it gets as dark as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes, food colours do not work – this very much includes all brands and types you can buy from supermarkets – I do not recommend using them at all. I use this black food colouring<\/a> because it is extra strong, and you need a small amount to get the desired effect. <\/span><\/p>\n

Baking these into these beautiful black cases<\/a> makes something heavenly delicious – but also a little weird looking. It is black cake after all! However, using the buttercream frosting and the green slime ganache contrasts so much better against the black colour. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Buttercream<\/h3>\n

For the slime cupcakes buttercream I use a simple american buttercream frosting to make the decoration – I use unsalted block butter that I have left to become room temperature, and beat this on its own to make it nice and supple. <\/span><\/p>\n

I then add in the icing sugar and cocoa powder and beat again for about 5 minutes to really beat the mixture together and make it light fluffy. I use this black food colouring <\/a>to make the buttercream, and I used a little vanilla extract because I love it. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Ganache<\/h3>\n

The buttercream is relatively simple, but its the ganache that you want to get right – I used a white chocolate ganache as you need it to be white to make sure you get the green – I used this green food colouring<\/a>. No white chocolate<\/a> is actually white in colour though, so this is important to remember. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the reasons it is so important to use a strong food colouring is so that you can add as little as possible, but also to make sure that it colours properly – some good colours can seize chocolate, but this brand does not. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I used a slightly different ratio for this ganache as I wanted it to be slightly runnier than normal – I wanted it to fill the cupcakes slightly for a gooey centre, and to make it easier to pour on top and make the slime drip more naturally. <\/span><\/p>\n

I usually use a ratio of 3:1 when it comes to making my white chocolate ganache, but this time I added in a little more cream to make it that bit runnier – I often get questions about what white chocolate I use, and I use this one. It\u2019s my favourite by far! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Piping<\/h3>\n

I used a 2d closed star piping tip for the piping as always – if you have read my blog for a while, you will realise that it\u2019s by far my favourite piping tip and it creates the most beautiful swirl.<\/p>\n

The amount of people that look at these and think I have put peas on my cupcakes – they are sprinkles I promise! I love the stick to a theme as always and I think they match the bake perfectly. I hope you love this recipe for slime cupcakes! Enjoy! X<\/p>\n

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Slime Cupcakes!<\/h2>\n\t\t
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Delicious scaretastic slime cupcakes with a black chocolate sponge, chocolate black buttercream frosting, and a gooey white chocolate slime drizzle and centre!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n