Mini Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Roses
Ingredients
1cupsugar
1cupflour
1/2cupcocoa powder
3/4tspbaking powder
3/4tspbaking soda
1/2tspsalt
1egg
1/2cupbuttermilk
1/4cupvegetable oil
1tspvanilla
1/2cupboiling water
Frosting
1/2cupbutter, softened
2tbspshortning
2 1/2cuppowdered sugar
1/4tspsalt
2tbspheavy cream
purple food gel
Instructions
Heat oven to 350°F. Place mini cupcake liners in mini cupcake pan.Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl.Add eggs, buttermilk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of mixer 2 minutes.Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin). Scoop batter into the mini cupcake pan.Bake 15-20 minutes
Frosting
Beat butter and shortening. Add powdered sugar, salt, and heavy cream and beat again. Divide frosting into 3 bowls. Add different amounts of purple food gel to get 3 shades of purple. Place frosting into 3 piping bags with piping tip 104 on each. If you only have one piping tip 104, then fill a bag with one color, pipe 1/3 of the cupcakes, then use the same tip for another bag and fill it with the next color. Pipe roses on the mini cupcakes using the 3 shades of purple.