Bambi & Friends Mud Cupcakes - Adorable Chocolate Treats

Bambi & Friends Cupcakes

For chocolate mud cupcakes

• 165g/6ozs. butter (doesn’t matter if it’s at room temp or not in this recipe)

• 120g/4ozs. dark eating chocolate broken up into pieces

• 1 1/3 cups light brown sugar

• 1 cup water

• 1 cup plain flour

• 1/4 cup cornflour or cornstarch

• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder

• 1 egg

Step 1 - Preheat oven to 150c fan forced or 170c non fan forced.

Step 2 - Place butter, chocolate, sugar, the water in small saucepan over low heat until melted and combined. Cool for 15 minutes.

Step 3 - Using a whisk, add flour, cocoa and then egg (at this stage it will look like liquidey dark chocolate ganache). Spoon into patty tins.

Step 4 - Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool in tin.

Bambi figures (inspired by this site who did hers a lot better than I did):

In background: a log for the body and a ball on top to place the head. In foreground, cutting out ears using a cutter.

Roll a white ball for the head and then using the diamond cutter cut out a piece of brown fondant to wrap over head. Attach the ears to the head with a small amount of water on the tip of a brush.

Just needing some eyes and legs!

Owl figures

Roll a small ball of fondant and then flatten it out slightly to become a round edged rectangle

Pinch the tips of one end to make the ears. Use a straw to draw feathers on the chest area and make eyes using some brown and white fondant and adhere onto the face using a small amount of water on the tip of a brush. Make a beak and feet using a tiny amount of yellow fondant.