Originally published in the Today’s Parent July 2015 issue, this recipe has a triple-tested guarantee from the Chatelaine Kitchen powered by GE.
Photo: Roberto Caruso
Campfire Cupcakes
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PREP TIME
55 min
TOTAL TIME
55 min
Makes
24 cupcakes
Roberto Caruso
No fire-safety badge required for these scrumptious cupcakes—simply rub two pretzel sticks together and watch sparks fly!
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter , at room temperature
- 1 170-g pkg dark chocolate , melted
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1/4 cup 10% cream
- 24 chocolate cupcakes
- 12 small red gumdrops
- 12 small orange gumdrops
- 12 small yellow gumdrops
- 1 tbsp chocolate cookie crumbs
- 1 cup pretzel sticks
- 24 whole pretzel sticks
- 48 mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Using an electric mixer on medium-high, beat butter until fluffy. Beat in chocolate until blended. Gradually beat in icing sugar and then cream until fluffy.
- Frost cupcakes with icing.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out gumdrops between 2 sheets of wax paper until thin and flat. Using clean kitchen scissors, cut each piece of flattened gumdrop into varying triangular shapes.
- Pile a few halved pretzel sticks in centre of 1 cupcake for logs. Arrange red, orange and yellow gumdrop triangles around pretzel shapes to make the fire. Repeat with remaining cupcakes.
- Pour chocolate cookie crumbs on a small plate. Push 1 whole pretzel stick through 2 marshmallows. Gently dampen edges of marshmallows with water, then dip into crumbs to make them look toasted. Repeat with remaining pretzels and marshmallows, placing one on each cupcake.
Nutrition (per cupcake)
- Calories
- 329,
- Protein
- 3 g,
- Carbohydrates
- 40 g,
- Fat
- 18 g,
- Fibre
- 1 g,
- Sodium
- 315 mg.
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