Simple, but effective. Karasuno and Nekoma cupcakes. Ideal for any Haikyuu get together. Serve ‘family style’ on a tray like this or make specific ones for your guests of their favourite characters and place them into individual snack boxes along with any other treats you’re serving. ^-^
Making these was interesting. Both were flavours I hadn’t done before – Karasuno was (meant to be) orange; inspired by their season 4 alternative uniforms, because, to me, they look like a bag of mikan. XD Nekoma was ‘apple pie’; inspired by Kenma’s favourite food.
I tried to use orange juice to give the Karasuno cakes an orange flavour; don’t do that. It didn’t taste like orange at all ~ I recommend using orange flavouring/essence (which I’ve included in the recipe below).
The ‘apple pie’ version worked much better. ^-^
Another interesting aspect of this project was actually how the characters sort of decided who’d be which cupcake as I was icing them… The only exceptions were the liberos as I tried to find the cake that ‘said’ Noya or Yaku to me… Tanaka and Lev gave me the most uphill in icing them; there was a lot of fiddling to get their icing to be just right. Surprisingly, Kageyama attempted to make a ‘run’ for it (which resulted in shmooshed icing all over my fingers… Thanks Kageyama…). Daichi was also a little ‘antsy’ during the process, but was less of a hassle than Kageyama. When I came to Kuroo and Kenma – the last two of the Nekoma cupcakes, I was having a hard time deciding which one would be who. Then Kuroo fixed that by being the ‘scruffier’ of the two cakes and Kenma’s cake helped to seal the deal by have a fair line of cinnamon syrup showing all around the cupcake from the apple filling, which kind of reminded me of his hair. ^-^
The below recipes are for the pictured cupcakes. However, feel free to develop your own take on these. If you plan on doing any other teams, I recommend drawing up your icing designs in rough on a piece of paper to help you out when it comes to figuring out colours and quantities.
Recipe Ratings:
• Health: 0/5.
• Ease: 2/5.
• Speed: Moderate. (±4hrs in total ~ including icing.)
Karasuno Orange Cupcakes
(Makes 7-8 cupcakes.)
Ingredients
• 55gr Margarine/Butter.
• 70gr Sugar.
• Pinch Salt.
• 115gr Flour.
• 1 Egg.
• 1 tsp. Baking Powder.
• 45ml Milk.
• 1 tsp. Orange Essence/Flavouring.
• Orange Gel Food Colouring.
Method
• Preheat oven to 220°C.
• Cream marge/butter and sugar very well.
• Beat in egg – beat well.
• Add orange essence.
• Sift dry ingredients into mix; alternate with milk to make a soft ‘dropping’ consistency.
• Add desired amount of orange food colouring.
• ½ fill muffin tin cups/ cupcake liners.
• Bake at 220°C for 10-15 min or until ‘golden brown’.
Nekoma Apple Cupcakes
(Makes 7-8 cupcakes.)
Ingredients
• 1 Medium-Large Apple – peeled and diced.
• 2 TBSP Butter.
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Essence.
• 1 tsp. Cinnamon Powder.
• 1 TBSP Brown Sugar.
• Splash of Water.
• 55gr Margarine/Butter.
• 70gr Sugar.
• Pinch Salt.
• 115gr Flour.
• 1 Egg.
• 1 tsp. Baking Powder.
• 45ml Milk.
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Essence.
• Red Gel Food Colouring.
Method
• Place diced apple and butter into a pan and stir until butter melts.
• Add vanilla, cinnamon powder and brown sugar. Stir to combine.
• Add a splash of water and cook until apple is cooked, but still has texture.
• Set aside. (You may need to reheat it before spooning into cupcake batter as the syrup may have
hardened.)
• Preheat oven to 220°C.
• Cream marge/butter and sugar very well.
• Beat in egg – beat well.
• Add vanilla essence.
• Sift dry ingredients into mix; alternate with milk to make a soft ‘dropping’ consistency.
• Add desired amount of red food colouring.
• Place a scoop of batter into the muffin tin cups or cupcake liners. Then (after reheating, if need be) place a tsp. of apple mixture into the centre of the batter. Now, add batter until it fills the cup/liner until half way.
• Bake at 220°C for 10-15 min or until ‘golden brown’.
Icing Ingredients
• 125gr Margarine/Butter.
• 500gr Icing sugar.
• Water.
• Food colourings. (Red, black and orange.)
• Cocoa powder.
Method
• Beat marge/butter until ‘softened’.
• Add icing sugar and beat.
• Gradually add water (a couple of tsps. at a time at max) and beat between additions until icing becomes your preferred consistency.
• Divide into 4 containers. To one add the red food colouring, to another add the orange and to the last add the black food colouring and cocoa powder; mix. Leave the 4th container white.
• To ice the cupcakes, I used a butter knife to apply the base colours and then two piping bags (ahem,
sandwich packets with a tiny hole cut in the corner) for the orange and black details. The numbers were done with a piping syringe and a star nozzle.
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