YouTube Play Button Cupcakes
Sugar coated champagne cupcakes with a special champagne frosting. Each of these Youtube Cupcakes is topped with either a silver, gold, or diamond play button to celebrate YouTubers who have earned the support of 100,000, 1 million, or 10 million subscribers!
Makes about 3 dozen cupcakes
Things you'll need
Ingredients- 2 cups sugar
- ¾ cup butter
- 6 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 2 cups champagne
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3 sticks butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- ¼ cup champagne
- Gold sanding sugar
- Gold leaf
- Silver sanding sugar
- Silver leaf
- White sanding sugar
- Marshmallow fondant
- Diamond luster dust
- Water
- Edible diamonds
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3 sticks butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- ¼ cup champagne
- Hand mixer with attachments
- 2 large mixing bowls
- Medium mixing bowl
- Rubber spatula
- Cupcake liners
- Cupcake tray
- Cookie scoop
- Small paintbrush
- Wax paper
- Small fondant roller
- Small triangle cutter
- Pastry bag fitted with #809 tip
- Small offset spatula
Let’s get started!
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Use an electric mixer to beat together butter and sugar until well combined.
- Add egg whites a little at a time, mixing between each addition and then add vanilla.
- Alternate between adding the dry ingredients and the champagne to the creamed mixture bowl (1/3 dry, mix, ½ champagne, mix, etc.).
- Scoop the batter into cupcake liners and bake for 20 minutes.
- Beat butter and powdered sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add salt, vanilla extract, and champagne and then mix until well combined.
- Scoop frosting into a decorating bag fitted with a #809 tip.
Time to decorate!
- Roll out marshmallow fondant to about an inch thick.
- Use a small square cutter to create square fondant shapes. Do the same with a small triangle cutter.
- With a small paintbrush, cover a few of the squares and triangles with diamond luster dust and then place some edible diamonds on top of each triangle (PICTURE at 10:54).
- Gently cover remaining squares and triangles with gold leaf and silver leaf (Picture at 11:08). Place each decorated triangle onto its corresponding square.
- Squeeze a large dollop of frosting onto each cupcake and then dip some into gold sanding sugar, some into silver, and some into white.
- Place each play buttons you made onto a cupcake. The diamond play button goes on top of the cupcake covered in white sanding sugar, silver on silver, gold on gold.
- TaDa! These YouTube Cupcakes take the play button to a whole new level!
