A cupcake is a small cupcake with a soft cream cap. There are a huge number of different recipes for making a cream for this wonderful dessert, but perhaps the most popular are cottage cheese and butter cream, as their soft taste goes well with airy dough.
Cottage cheese cream for cupcakes
Required Ingredients:
- 150 g fat cottage cheese;
- 50 ml cream with 20% fat;
- 120 g butter;
- 150 g icing sugar;
- vanilla essence.
Preparation:
To begin with, beat the cottage cheese with half the cream until the mass becomes fluffy and reaches a uniform consistency. If this does not happen, then you need to add a little more cream. Stir the resulting curd mass with vanilla essence.
Next, we start preparing the second part of the cream. To do this, cut the butter into pieces and beat them with powdered sugar so that you get a thick and fluffy mass. Granulated sugar is best added in small portions.
Then we mix the creamy and curd parts of the cream using a mixer until smooth. Put the finished cream in the refrigerator for 20 minutes to set, then put it in a pastry bag and decorate the cupcakes.
Butter cream for cupcakes
Required Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of cream with a fat content of at least 30%;
- 10 g vanilla sugar;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of powdered sugar.
Preparation:
First, cool the cream in the freezer (it is important that it is very cold, but not frozen). Then beat the chilled cream until thick. It is better to whip the cream with a regular whisk, not with a blender, otherwise you risk getting butter instead of cream.
Add vanilla sugar and powdered sugar to the whipped cream in several steps, without stopping to stir. The mass should turn out to be thick and dense, otherwise it will not keep its shape.
You should decorate cupcakes with butter just before serving them so that the cream cap does not lose its original appearance.
Colored cream for cupcakes
Required Ingredients:
- cream prepared according to one of the above recipes;
- food coloring.
Preparation:
In the process of preparing colored cream for cupcakes, it is better to use natural dyes. So, for example, to obtain a brown tint, cocoa, coffee or dark chocolate are ideal, for yellow - lemon zest, for red - berry or fruit juice, etc.
To color the cream in the desired color, add a small amount of food coloring to it and thoroughly mix the cream mass using a pastry spatula or a regular spoon. The more food coloring you use, the more intense the shade will be.
As an option, cupcakes can be decorated with not just colored, but rainbow cream. To do this, the prepared cream must be divided into three equal parts, adding food coloring of a certain color to each. Then fill a pastry bag with multi-colored creams and apply them to the cake in a circular motion.
