Muffins can be a great breakfast option for children. Especially if they are cooked with a small amount of fat and have a lot of fiber in their composition. If you supplement such a breakfast with a protein component - kefir, cottage cheese, milkshake, milk, your child will not be hungry soon. Today we have prepared for you a wide variety of recipes for children’s cupcakes made from various ingredients.
About Cupcakes
This dessert is a pastry made from butter dough, baked in tins with high sides. In this type of test, baking powder or soda is required. In addition, flour, sugar, eggs, butter, various flavoring and aromatic additives are introduced into it. Due to the content of eggs in the dough, it acquires a velvety structure, oil and sugar give the finished product softness.
There are several kneading options for this test, depending on the recipe. Please note: when cooking, it is necessary to observe some technological conditions - the order of adding products when creating the test, all kneading products must be at one (room) temperature. Products are baked at a moderate temperature in the oven for a rather long time. In the event that the crust becomes rosy and the middle is still raw, cover the cupcakes with foil and bake until cooked. We check readiness in the old, but effective way: using a wooden beam or a toothpick.
Cupcake "Air tenderness"
A variety of recipes based on infant formula allows each housewife to surprise her family and friends with unusually delicious desserts. Today we want to provide you with a recipe for a cupcake from a baby formula. Take:
- 2 eggs;
- 5 scoops of milk formula;
- baking powder bag;
- 250 g of flour;
- 100 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- oil rust. for lubrication;
- 2 g of vanillin;
- 5 tbsp. l jam (any);
- salt.
Cooking recommendations
Beat eggs with sugar in a strong foam, add the milk mixture diluted in 150 ml of water to them. Dissolve the oil over low heat and add to the prepared mixture. There we send the salt with vanilla and whisk everything with a whisk. Pour flour with baking powder and add jam. You can bake a cupcake in a bowl from a multicooker, you must first grease it with oil. In addition, the dough can be divided into individual molds and bake small cupcakes.
Curd Cupcake
In a house where there are small children, children's curds often remain unused. We recommend that you prepare very tender muffins for this recipe. We need such products:
- two packs of cottage cheese (100 g each);
- 1.5 tbsp. flour;
- 75 g butter;
- 1/2 tbsp. Sahara;
- a pair of eggs;
- filling to taste.
We combine eggs with sugar, add butter, cottage cheese, flour. We make raisins (or any other filling). Pour the mixture into molds. Bake cottage cheese for 25 minutes at an oven temperature of 180 ° C.
Carrot cake
Confectionery prepared according to this recipe is not only distinguished by its taste and usefulness, but also by its beautiful appearance. He will bring special joy to little children. The following components should be prepared:
- 2 large, very juicy carrots (about 200 g);
- 100 g of peeled hazelnuts (raw);
- a couple of eggs;
- about 60 grams of flour (depending on quality);
- large lemon;
- tsp with a hill of baking powder;
- 4 tbsp. l molasses, maple syrup or honey;
- powdered sugar;
- some ground cardamom;
- olive oil for lubrication;
- small carrots with a tail (for serving);
- salt.
Step-by-step process
We prepare children's cupcakes as follows:
- We chop the nuts with a knife into small crumbs, three carrots on a fine grater.
- Wash the lemon thoroughly and remove the zest from it with a grater. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon itself. Separate the proteins from the yolks, rub the latter with honey or syrup, add nuts, carrots and lemon juice to them, mix.
- Sift flour with cardamom into a separate bowl, add the yolk mixture and knead the dough. Whisk the proteins with added salt into a stable foam and very carefully introduce them into the dough.
- We grease the form intended for baking muffins with oil, we put parchment on the bottom. We lay out the dough by tins and place in an oven preheated to 160 ° C for 25 minutes. In the event that you want to cook one large cupcake, the baking time will be about 40 minutes.
- After baking the products, let them cool completely, it will take about one hour. Having previously separated the baking from the walls, carefully remove it. If you used portioned molds, we serve the children’s cupcake directly to them.
- Wash and dry the cooked carrots with tails in advance, lay them on the surface of the cupcakes. Sprinkle the cakes with powdered sugar through a fine strainer and serve.
- If you know how to work with marzipan, then marzipan carrots can be used for decoration.
Baby Porridge Cupcake
When buying baby food (dry soluble cereals), sometimes it turns out that the expiration date comes to an end (open boxes are stored for a short time), and there is still a lot of dry product. In this case, an excellent option is to make a cake from porridge. From the ingredients we take, you get about 9 cupcakes, the amount can vary, it depends on the size of the molds.
Should be prepared:
- 130 g butter;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 1 tbsp. dry cereal (to taste);
- three eggs;
- 0.5 tsp soda (or 1 tsp. baking powder).
Dissolve the butter on the stove, pour sugar into it and beat with a mixer. Continuing to beat at low speed, we drive in one egg at a time, pour in a baking powder. Then, in the prepared mass, we fill in the baby dry porridge and mix. It begins to swell very quickly, so the dough is thick. We lay out according to the molds and bake children's muffins for about 35 minutes at an oven temperature of 180 ° C. It is interesting that at the beginning of baking, muffins significantly increase in size, and then settle. Once the items have a brown tint, they can be removed.
Baby Cupcakes in Silicone Molds
Everyone who has little children knows with what pleasure they eat the Barney mini cupcakes purchased at the store. Why not make this confectionery at home or bake very beautiful and original mini trains? Fortunately, today in any store you can buy silicone molds for every taste and color, with various design designs.
We offer to make cupcakes in the form of small wagons. We will need the following products:
- sugar - 200 g;
- vinegar and soda - ½ tsp;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- butter - 100 g;
- sour cream (thick) - 7 large spoons;
- flour - about 2 tbsp .;
- to taste - berries, candied fruits, fruits;
- for decoration - sugar pencils.
The recipe is very simple to prepare, it does not require any modern kitchen appliances.
Cooking technology
Using a spoon, mix the eggs with sugar, add sour cream, add soda, extinguished with vinegar, add softened butter, pour in the sifted (necessary) flour. It is desirable that the finished dough had a consistency of thick sour cream. At this stage, any fillers can be added to it as desired. Very tasty cupcakes are obtained with various berries, for example with cranberries or currants. Filling silicone molds is recommended at , otherwise the products may “run away”. Before you start filling out the forms, it is better to install them on the baking sheet, as they are very flexible, and putting a form filled with dough will be difficult.
According to this recipe, a children's cupcake is baked for half an hour at 200 ° C. We check the readiness of products for a long time in a known manner - using a wooden stick. In the event that there is no raw dough left on it, the cupcakes are ready. After baking, let the products cool directly in the mold, then carefully remove them. After the cars have completely cooled down, we cut the bottom for stability, and then we color them to our taste with sugar pencils, which can be purchased at any supermarket.
Sesame Muffins
We offer yet another version of cupcakes baked in silicone molds. In this recipe we will use quail eggs, thanks to this the muffins are surprisingly soft inside and pleasantly crispy on the outside. Such cupcakes will appeal to children and adults. It is necessary to take:
- quail eggs - 7 pieces;
- granulated sugar - 120;
- butter - 100 g;
- soda - ½ tsp;
- flour - 2 tbsp .;
- sour cream or baby kefir - 200 ml;
- some sesame seeds.
How to cook?
Beat sugar and quail eggs, add liquid butter, then kefir, soda and flour. Knead uncooked dough. Forms for cupcakes set on a baking sheet. We fill the molds with dough and sprinkle with sesame seeds on top. Please note: we fill the containers by no more than 2/3 of the volume to allow the baking to rise well. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and bake for 35 minutes.