Pistachio cupcakes
Turn any gathering into a special occasion with these glamorous cupcakes for grown-ups
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Prep:25 mins
Cook:25 mins
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
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kcal 326
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fat 16g
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saturates 7g
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carbs 45g
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sugars 36g
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fibre 0g
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protein 4g
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salt 0.34g
Ingredients
- 100g pistachios
- 140g golden caster sugar
- 140g butter, very soft
- 2 eggs
- 140g self-raising flour
- 5 tbsp milk
- edible glitter, to decorate
- 250g icing sugar, sifted
- mint green food colouring
Method
Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with cases. Put 85g pistachios into a food processor with about half the sugar, then whizz until very finely chopped. Tip into a large mixing bowl with the remaining sugar, butter, eggs, flour and milk and beat until smooth. Divide between cases, then bake on a low shelf for 22-25 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
For the icing, mix just enough water into the icing sugar to get a very thick but still runny icing – just add 1 tbsp of water at a time. Stir in enough food colouring to give a pretty, pale green colour. If any cakes poke above the top of the cases, trim with a small knife, or scoop out with a teaspoon – being very careful not to release any of the case from the sides of the cake. Put a generous spoonful of icing on each cake and let it gently spread to cover. Chop the remaining pistachios and scatter these over with a pinch of edible glitter. Set, then serve.