White Chocolate Cupcakes With Baby Footprints (For A Baby Shower) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, chopped coarsely
3.5 oz white chocolate, chopped coarsely
3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/3 cup maple syrup or honey
2/3 cup milk
1 cup all-purpose flour, plus 2 tbsp, sifted
1/3 cup self-rising flour, sifted
1 None large egg
None None Buttercream
7 tbsp butter, softened
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1 tbsp milk
None None white food coloring
12 None yellow jelly beans, halved lengthwise
None None yellow gel writing icing

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325\u00b0F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
Combine butter, chocolate, sugar, maple syrup and milk in a small saucepan. Stir over low heat until smooth. Transfer to a medium bowl and let cool for 15 mins.
Whisk flour into chocolate mixture then whisk in egg. Fill each paper liner with 1/4 cup batter and bake for 30 mins. Let cupcakes cool in pan for 5 mins then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Meanwhile, to make the buttercream, beat butter until as white as possible. Beat in powdered sugar and milk, in 2 batches. Tint buttercream white with food coloring then spread over cupcakes.
Position jelly bean halves on cupcakes as \"feet\" and use writing icing to pipe on \"toes.\"