Ted Lasso's mini cupcakes for Higgins (actually for Trent Crimm's 3yo daughter)
Equipment
- Stand mixer or hand mixer
- Mini muffin pan
- Mini cupcake liner
Ingredients
Mini Cupcakes
- ¼ cup Unsalted Butter (soften at room temperature)
- ¾ cup Sugar
- 2 Eggs (room temperature)
- ⅓ cup Sour Cream
- ¼ cup Avocado or Coconut Oil
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 ¾ cup Cake Flour
- 1 ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- ½ tsp Salt
- ⅔ cup Milk
Frosting & Sprinkles
- ¼ cup Unsalted Butter
- 1-1 ½ tbsp Water
- ¼ tsp Vanilla Extract
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 ¼ cup Powder Sugar
- Sprinkles
Instructions
Mini Cupcake Recipe
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Cream unsalted butter & sugar until smooth using a stand mixer or hand mixer at medium ~ high speed.
- Add eggs, sour cream, oil and vanilla extract to the bowl and mix together until combined.
- Reduce the speed to low and add cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix until combined.
- Gradually add milk and mix until smooth.
- Fill pre-lined mini cupcake pans with a scoop of batter – about 2/3 full. One scoop of this small size cookie scoop is the best amount.
- Bake for about 15 minutes at 350F.
- Chill completely before decorating with frosting.
Frosting
- Cream butter until smooth with stand mixer or hand mixer.
- Add water, vanilla extract and salt and mix well.
- Slowly add powder sugar (1/4 at a time) and mix at low speed. Repeat until all the sugar is combined.