Slime Cupcakes!

Delicious scaretastic slime cupcakes with a black chocolate sponge, chocolate black buttercream frosting, and a gooey white chocolate slime drizzle and centre! 

Halloween

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. 

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… why not make a bake about that?! All the green. 

Food colouring and cupcakes cases

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’s totally fine in my eyes. If you are using good quality colouring like I recommend then you don’t use much to get good results, so it’s perfect! You can see from my rainbow cake how using good quality food colouring really pays off!

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

Black sponge

To make a black sponge for these slime cupcakes, you need to use a chocolate base – I use this cocoa powder 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. 

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 because it is extra strong, and you need a small amount to get the desired effect. 

Baking these into these beautiful black cases 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. 

Buttercream

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. 

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 to make the buttercream, and I used a little vanilla extract because I love it. 

Ganache

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. No white chocolate is actually white in colour though, so this is important to remember. 

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. 

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. 

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’s my favourite by far! 

Piping

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’s by far my favourite piping tip and it creates the most beautiful swirl.

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

Slime Cupcakes!

Delicious scaretastic slime cupcakes with a black chocolate sponge, chocolate black buttercream frosting, and a gooey white chocolate slime drizzle and centre! 

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Category: Cupcakes

Type: Cupcakes

Keyword: Halloween

Prep Time: 40 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cooling & Decorating Time: 2 hours hours

Total Time: 2 hours hours 50 minutes minutes

Servings: 12 Cupcakes!

Author: Jane's Patisserie

Ingredients

Cupcakes

• 200 g unsalted butter
• 200 g light brown soft sugar
• 150 g self raising flour
• 50 g cocoa powder
• 4 medium eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp black food colouring

Buttercream

• 200 g unsalted butter (not stork) (room temperature)
• 350 g icing sugar
• 50 g cocoa powder
• 1 tsp black food colouring

Ganache

• 200 g white chocolate
• 80 ml double cream
• 1/2 tsp green food colouring
• sprinkles

Grams - Ounces

Instructions

Cupcakes

• Preheat the oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan and prep 12 black cases.
• Beat the unsalted butter/stork and light brown soft sugar together until light and fluffy.
• Add in the self raising flour, cocoa powder, eggs, vanilla extract and black food colouring.
• Beat the mixture until its thick and lovely.
• Split the mixture evenly between the 12 cases and bake in the oven for 20-22 minutes.
• Once baked, leave to cool fully.

Buttercream

• Beat the room temperatureunsalted butter on its own for a few minutes to loosen it and make it smoother.
• Add in the icing sugar and cocoa powder and beat again until smooth - I mix for a good few minutes.
• Then, add in the black food colouring and beat again.

Ganache

• Add the white chocolate and double cream to a glass bowl or jug, and microwave until smooth - I do this in 10 second bursts, stirring well each time.
• Once melted, add in the green food colouring a little at a time and stir in until you reach the desired green.

Decoration

• Core out the centre of each cupcake, and fill carefully with some of the green ganache.
• Pipe the buttercream frosting on top of the cupcake and ganache.
• Drizzle over the rest of the ganache to create a slimy mess - and add on some green sprinkles if you fancy.

Notes

• For this recipe:
  • I used these black cupcake cases
  • I used this black food colouring
  • I used this green food colouring
  • I used this white chocolate
  • I used this cocoa powder
  • I used this piping tip
  • I used these piping bags 
• These cupcakes will last 3-4 days, at room temp. 
• You can freeze these cupcakes for 3+ months. 

ENJOY!

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