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Emoji Cupcakes Recipe

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Find out how to make the Emoji Cupcakes featured on Friday Download!Follow the instructions below or watch the video above. Yummy!

You will need
  • 110g/4oz butter or margarine, softened at room temperature
  • Rollable yellow icing
  • Chocolate icing or black/brown decorative icing
  • 110g/4oz caster sugar
  • 2 free-range eggs, lightly beaten
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 110g/4oz self-raising flour
  • 1-2 tbsp milk

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.

2. Mix the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale. Beat in the eggs a little at a time and stir in the vanilla extract.

3. Fold in the flour using a large metal spoon, adding a little milk until the mixture is of a dropping consistency. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they are half full.

4. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, or until golden-brown on top and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.

5. Roll out some rollable yellow icing to about 0.5cm thick

6. Use a blunt knife to cut circles the size of your cupcakes

7. Place the circle on to your cupcake

8. Shape some chocolate icing in to the shape of your emoji鈥檚 features - eyes, eyebrows, mouth, etc.