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Muffin Recipes

Stable muffin cream recipes. Creams that are suitable for decorating muffins on top. How to make creamy, custard, protein cream for muffins.

15 minutes

212 kcal

3/5 (2)

To decorate muffins, in addition to standard powdered sugar and chocolate glaze, cream is also used. They either simply coat muffins with it, or decorate them with various cream figures: roses, spirals and other curls. For latest options Not all creams are suitable, but only those that will hold their shape well.
I'll tell you how to make muffin cream that will adhere perfectly to the top, and I'll describe their recipes in detail.

Basic Recipes

At the end of cooking, you can optionally add to each of the creams:

half a bar of melted white or dark chocolate;
1 tbsp. cocoa powder;
zest from half a lemon or orange;
1 tbsp. dry instant coffee;
required amount of food coloring;
a couple of drops of food flavoring.

Cream of cream

List of ingredients:

Kitchenware:

Before preparing the cream, the cream and the container in which it will be whipped must be very well cooled. To do this, just put everything in the freezer for 10 minutes.

Butter cream for muffins

List of ingredients:

butter – 200 g;
powdered sugar – 80-100 g;
vanilla.

Kitchenware: mixer, whipping container.
Time: 15 minutes.
Quantity: for about 15 pieces.

In this recipe we need the oil to be at room temperature. Therefore, approximately one hour before the start of whipping, it must be removed from the refrigerator.

Cooking sequence

Cream cheese with cream cheese

This cream is prepared either from ready-made cheese (mascarpone, Philadelphia, etc.), or is completely made by hand.

List of ingredients:

cream cheese – 300 g;
butter – 80 g;
vanilla;
powdered sugar – 150 g.

Kitchenware: mixer, whipping container.
Time: 15 minutes.
Quantity: for about 15 pieces.

Cooking sequence

Video recipe for cream cheese frosting for muffins

I also suggest watching the video recipe for muffin cream with cream cheese. The preparation of the cream is demonstrated step by step here. Pay attention to the idea of decorating the muffins - in my opinion, they turned out incredibly beautiful.

For example, we decorate either.

Cream cheese

List of ingredients:

very fat sour cream – 340 g;
fat kefir – 180 ml;
curdled milk – 180 ml;
juice from half a lemon.

Kitchenware: pan, sieve, gauze.
Time: approximately 3 hours.
Quantity: one portion.

Cooking sequence

Custard protein cream

Delicious and beautiful muffins are also made with custard protein cream. There are two options for preparing it.

First option

List of ingredients:

protein – 3 pcs.;
sugar – 120 g;
water – 40 ml.

Kitchenware: mixer, whipping container, bowl.
Time: 25 minutes.
Quantity: for about 15 pieces.

Cooking sequence

Second option

List of ingredients:

protein – 3 pcs.;
sugar – 120 g.

Cooking sequence

Confectioners have created so many creams that housewives are sometimes dizzy from their variety. To make their choice easier, we suggest considering the simplest and easiest to prepare sweet creams for decorating cupcakes.

Recipes for cream for decorating cupcakes

Needless to say, the variety of creams for finishing confectionery products is amazing in its diversity. In addition to yoghurt and chocolate ones, chefs have come up with cheese, dietary and even vegetarian ones!

It’s hard to imagine that just a few decades ago the variety was limited to butter, custard and, in contrast to them, protein was used.

Of course, it has long lost the laurels of popularity to new products, but it is still considered easy to prepare and one of the dietary ones. It is simply ideal for decoration, as it retains its given shape for a long time.

Protein

How to cook:

Cream "Bird's milk"

If the previous version of the decor can be stored in the refrigerator, then this must be used immediately after preparation, since it tends to harden in a few minutes. The most popular option for using it is considered to be an interlayer.

In this case, the mass is placed in the refrigerator for 10 minutes and only then used for its intended purpose.

Recipe Ingredients:

squirrels – 4 pcs.;
powder – 250 g;
citric acid – 4.5 tsp. without slide;
gelatin – 1.5 tbsp. l.;
warm boiled water – 150 ml.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Number of calories: 267 kcal.

How to cook:

Soak the gelatin in warm water for a quarter of an hour;
While the ingredient swells, start beating the egg whites. For convenience, you can mix the powder with acid or add the components separately. The main thing is not to stop the beating process;
During this time, the gelatin will swell properly. Place it in a water bath and melt it, stirring occasionally;
Return to protein mass. Without stopping whipping, add melted gelatin in small parts. As soon as it finishes, beat for another 5 minutes.

Immediately start decorating the products.

Custard protein cream

Another option for preparing sweets for decoration. It’s just that the recipe is a little more labor-intensive, but as a result the cream will be more plastic and with a completely different taste.

Recipe Ingredients:

proteins – 3 pcs.;
powder – 250 g;
a pinch of salt;
half a packet of vanillin;
boiled water – 100 ml.

Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Number of calories: 230 kcal.

How to cook:

Just like in other recipes, carefully separate the right part eggs;
Add salt to the whites and beat until a strong, stable foam;
Pour powder into a saucepan. To add a vanilla flavor, add vanillin powder along with the sweet ingredient at the same stage. Cook the syrup over moderate heat, stirring constantly and wait until the powder is completely dissolved (this is very important);
Turn on the mixer again and pour in the hot syrup in a thin stream and beat the egg white mixture at high speed. It is important to comply with this condition, otherwise under the influence high temperature the whites will curl and settle;
After pouring the syrup, under no circumstances should the process be stopped. You need to beat until the mixture cools completely. On average it will take no more than 7 minutes;
If you want to add a tint, you need to add a coloring agent 2 minutes before the end.

How to make chocolate cream for cupcakes

Don't be intimidated by looking at the ingredient list. Yes, this is one of the options for buttercream, but if you use quality chocolate and good butter, no one will even think that it is made with shortening.

For a bright and rich shade, use dark bitter chocolate, for a delicate light chocolate. Brown Milk will do.

Recipe Ingredients:

softened butter – 100 g;
pre-melted warm chocolate – 100 g;
sifted powder – 150 g.

Number of calories: 530 kcal.

How to cook:

Before you start preparing the decorative cream, it is worth noting that it is very important to observe the temperature regime of the chocolate. Too hot will melt the butter, and too cold will not mix with the rest of the ingredients - in both cases the cream will not work;
Beat butter until fluffy;
Pour in all the powder in one go, increase the speed to maximum and continue the process for at least 7 minutes;
Chocolate can be poured into the butter mixture in small portions or immediately, but in a thin stream;
Finish whipping only after the last ingredient is completely combined with the others, that is, there should not be a single light gap.

Vanilla

Another option for an “atypical” butter composition for decorating cupcakes, for those who stick to the classics.

Recipe Ingredients:

softened butter – 250 g;
sifted powder - 4 ½ cups;
vanilla pod;
skim milk – ¼ cup.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Number of calories: 435 kcal.

How to cook:

First, you need to beat the butter for several minutes at high speed. Then, adding powder, reduce the speed to medium;
As soon as half of the powder is poured in, pour in the milk and add the vanilla pod;
Next, add the remaining powder and beat until the mass acquires an airy texture;
Immediately place the finished cream into a syringe or bag and begin decorating.

Other recipes

Here are some more famous and easy-to-make cupcake frosting options.

From the cream

Recipe Ingredients:

chilled heavy cream – 1.5 cups;
vanillin – 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Number of calories: 138 kcal.

How to cook:

Keep the container where the cream will be prepared in the freezer for 20 minutes;
Whip the cream until thick, add vanilla one spoon at a time;
Continue beating until stiff peaks form.

Meringue

Meringue is a dense, but not cloyingly sweet cream, which is based on proteins, butter, salt and powder. Technological process a little complicated, but the ready-made mass for decoration is considered universal.

As a filling, you can add chocolate, chopped nuts, citrus fruits to the cream - in any case, it will keep its shape perfectly.

Recipe Ingredients:

room temperature whites – 3 pcs.;
a pinch of citric acid;
vanilla extract – ½ tbsp. l. (can be replaced with a few drops of essence);
water – ¼ cup;
butter – 150 g;
powder – 1 glass.

Cooking time: 50 minutes.

Number of calories: 403 kcal.

How to cook:

Pour the whites into a dry and clean bowl (pay attention to this point);
Mix water with powder in a saucepan and cook over moderate heat until the sweet ingredient dissolves;
While the syrup is preparing, start beating the egg whites. Add acid and continue the process until stable peaks are obtained;
Keeping the same speed, continue whipping and carefully pour in the syrup in a thin stream. Beating should continue until the mass cools completely. This process usually takes about 30 minutes;
Once the protein mixture has cooled, add butter. At first it will settle, but as you beat it it will acquire a smooth structure. If you don’t succeed, put the container in the refrigerator for 10 minutes and resume the process;
At the very end, add vanilla extract and stir.

Ganache

Ganache is a mixture of one type of chocolate (dark, white or milk) and heavy cream. Just like in the previous version, you can add various additives to improve the already delicious cream.

Recipe Ingredients:

chocolate with 70% cocoa beans – 250 g;
honey – 50 g (or 40 g molasses);
30% cream – 300 g.

Cooking time: 35 minutes.

Number of calories: 415 kcal.

How to cook:

Bring the cream mixed with honey (molasses) to a boil;
Chop the chocolate as finely as possible and pour hot cream over it. Stir until completely dissolved;
Place the ganache in the refrigerator until completely cooled.

The finished cream ganache has stable structure, which makes it easy to decorate cupcakes.

Recipe for cupcakes with cream inside

We invite you to familiarize yourself with the cupcake, which is based on the technology of making an American cake called Boston Cream Pie. The dough will turn out tender and not dry, the cream inside will never spread, and the glaze with a slight honey flavor will emphasize the sophistication of the baked goods.

Dough Recipe Ingredients:

skim milk – 150 ml;
a pinch of vanilla sugar;
eggs – 3 pcs.;
flour – 1 ¾ cups;
chilled butter – 180 g;
baking powder – 1.5 tsp;
sugar – 1 glass.

33% cream – 200 ml;
corn starch – 3 tsp;
sugar – 50 g;
butter – 30 g;
vanillin packaging;
yolks – 3 pcs.

milk – 100 ml;
half a package of vanillin;
honey – 2 tbsp. l.;
chocolate – 100 g.

Cooking time: 1 hour 40 minutes.

Number of calories: 300 kcal.

How to make cupcakes with cream:

The technological process begins with preparing the filling. Bring the cream to a boil. While they are heating, beat vanilla, eggs and sugar until light foam forms;
Add starch and stir;
Continuing stirring, pour in hot cream in a stream;
Place the cream on the stove, add oil and cook until thick. Make sure that the mixture does not start to boil;
Cool the finished cream to room temperature and put it in the refrigerator until sold;
In a separate bowl, mix all the dry ingredients for the dough. Add pieces of chilled butter and puree using a blender (fork);
Add eggs one at a time. After each pass, the mass must be thoroughly mixed;
Pour in milk and stir in one direction until smooth;
Pour the dough into molds and bake for a quarter of an hour at 180C;
Carefully cut out the central flesh of the cooled muffins, but leave the “lid”;
Place a spoonful of chilled cream inside;
Place the “lid” on top;
Glaze: Combine all ingredients and heat until completely melted;
Cool. Usually the glaze hardens in about 30 minutes;
Cover the products with glaze.

Bon appetit!

When it comes to home baking, many housewives prefer to find a recipe for a particularly tasty and aromatic product. The housewife always takes into account every successful culinary experiment and makes it one of her signature homemade dishes. But if you can find a successful recipe quite easily, then with confectionery decor the situation is much more complicated. And not every housewife takes on complex and intricate decorations, believing that she is completely beyond her power. Although in fact, there are many master classes with which you can create real culinary masterpieces without applying special effort. But every time such masterpieces will cause a storm of delight in you and those who get to try these same cupcakes. Well, if sweet treats are intended for children, then they will certainly appreciate a skillfully placed sheep on a cupcake or a beautiful butterfly, or even a whole panda.

In general, if you want to truly surprise your guests, then you should take a look at the proposed options to choose something suitable and surprising.

How to decorate cupcakes

Chocolate butterflies

Despite the apparent difficulty of creating such figures, in fact anyone can draw such butterflies. The main thing is to have it on hand necessary materials:

340 g dark chocolate;
340 g white chocolate;
Orange food coloring;
Cling film;
Toothpick;
Parchment paper;
24 cupcakes (this is how many you can decorate with this amount of chocolate).

When getting started, you need to make sure that you have a template for drawing a butterfly on hand.

Cover this template with cling film on top and start drawing.

But first you need to prepare the chocolate.

To do this, you need to melt the black (and, in parallel, white) chocolate in a water bath or in the microwave. Since you need to draw with both types of chocolate at once, it is important to make sure that both types are ready to work right away. Therefore, into melted chocolate white add dye and mix well. Then we pour the dark chocolate into a piping bag (you can see how to make a piping bag with your own hands here) and start drawing, following the contours of the design on the template.

Immediately, without letting the chocolate cool, draw the drawings orange and make streaks with a toothpick. The finished butterflies need to be positioned so that the wings are slightly bent. To do this, you can place plates on the sides.

Or simply, from the very beginning of work, draw a butterfly on the pages of a book previously covered with cling film.

In this position, the sweet figures should cool completely, well, and then they need to be separated from the cling film and decorated with cupcakes.

How to decorate cupcakes

Cacti and succulents

Method 1

These cupcakes look very realistic, they look like real succulents in a flower pot. And if you want to create something similar, then you will need mastic.

Marshmallow mastic

To prepare it it is important to prepare:

300 g white marshmallows;
250g sifted powdered sugar;
Again 250 g of starch;
A couple of tablespoons of lemon juice.

From the very beginning of work, you need to ensure that the marshmallow mass increases in volume. To do this, heat it in a water bath or use a microwave, after adding lemon juice to the mixture.

After we have achieved the effect of increasing the mass, it needs to be combined with 100 g of powdered sugar, and also, at this stage, add dye if necessary.

And when this mass is well mixed, you can put it on the table to knead with the rest of the powdered sugar and starch. The finished mastic should be quite elastic and not stick to your hands.

Cupcake Decoration

From this mastic you can create the desired succulents. To do this, you need to make sure that the mastic is of two colors: mustard (brown) and green.

Once the necessary blanks are at hand, you can begin decorating.

First you need to roll out a rectangular layer of brown mastic. The dimensions here should be based on the size of the cupcake. You need to wrap the rolled out rectangle around the cupcake, creating a flower pot.

Sprinkle the top of the muffin (aka cupcake) with cookie crumbs. This will be the soil.

Advice. To ensure that the leaves are well connected to each other, lubricate them with a small amount of water.

The finished flowers should be placed in a silicone mold. Here they must be left so that they “grab”, and then each flower is pricked with a toothpick and inserted into the prepared cupcake with “soil” and a “flower pot.”

By the way! If desired, you can sprinkle each flower with powdered sugar or cocoa. These cupcakes look very beautiful.

Method 2

The same cacti can be made using butter cream.

To prepare it you will need:

Oil;
Powdered sugar. Everything is in equal parts.

Both ingredients are thoroughly whipped until a fluffy, strong mass is obtained. This is the simplest buttercream recipe, but it will be enough to create the desired decor.

In addition to buttercream, for creating succulents will come in handy:

Cupcakes;
Cookie;
Green mastic;
Green dye;
Brown dye or cocoa (optional);
Toothpicks;
Confectionery syringe (bag) with nozzles.

First you need to create a “flower pot” and “soil”. Here you can use the first decoration method. You can leave the cake as is, or you can cover the sides with brown buttercream (buttercream mixed with brown coloring or cocoa). Then, on top, you need to secure the base for the cactus using green mastic and a toothpick. On top of such a “sausage” you need to cover with green butter cream, armed with a pastry syringe and a “leaf” nozzle.

You need to plant roses (or other flowers) on ready-made cacti. Optional.

If you have not yet mastered the basics of creating flowers for baking decorations, then you will probably find this video useful:

Another cactus is created in the same way, but using a star attachment.

How to decorate cupcakes

Marshmallow sheep

Cupcakes that resemble a cute little lamb look quite funny. Children will especially like these sweets.

To create a similar decor, you will need:

Cupcakes;
White buttercream;
Small marshmallows;
Black chocolate;
Confectionery syringe (bag) with a thin nozzle for inscriptions.

First, each cupcake needs to be covered with white cream. Then, spread small pieces of marshmallow over the entire surface of the cupcake, imitating sheep's wool. Using a larger piece, the head and ears of the sheep are created. The work is completed by applying the eyes, nose and mouth using a pastry syringe and chocolate melted in a water bath.

Advice. If desired, the sheep's head can be made more sophisticated. To do this, you will need mastic, with the help of which the head, ears and eyes of the desired character are formed.

How to decorate cupcakes

Fish

Another way to amuse children is to decorate cupcakes with fish figures. To create them you will need:

Cupcakes;
Blue buttercream;
M&M's in blue and red;
Edible sweet "eyes".

Just like with the lamb, you first need to frost the cake with buttercream. Then, on its surface, you need to spread the M&M’s halfway (this will be the body of the fish).

Place edible eyes and lips on the rest of the cupcake using M&M's.

The same fish can be made in other colors.

How to decorate cupcakes

Sunflowers

The cupcakes, reminiscent of the well-known sunflowers, also look amazing. To create them you will need:

Cupcakes;
Cookie "Oreo»;
Yellow buttercream;
Green buttercream;
Pastry syringe (bag) and nozzles.

The first step in creating this mini masterpiece is to attach the cookies to the surface of the cupcake.

Then, around the entire circumference of the Oreo, you need to make flower petals with buttercream using a leaf tip.

If desired, you can add grass at the bottom using a thin nozzle and buttercream.

Well, if the thirst for creativity flares up more and more, then you can plant a ladybug on a sunflower, which is created by coloring M&M’s dragees with melted black chocolate.

How to decorate cupcakes

Pandas

Another option for unusual cupcake decor is funny pandas. If you like this option, then detailed instructions can be viewed in the video.

This is how your signature cupcakes become beautiful and also incredibly original. And even if you have to tinker with them a little, everyone who is lucky enough to see such a creation will certainly appreciate your efforts, and you will enjoy the results of your efforts.