Valentine chocolate cupcakes

Today I have been in the kitchen baking chocolate cupcakes. Since Valentine’s Day is soon approaching, I thought that some pink fondant hearts and a little pink sprinkle on the cupcakes would be in place. I have frosted them with Angel Feather Icing, which is good together with the chocolate cupcakes. You can find the recipe for Angel Feather Icing below.

Angel Feather Icing

Ingredients.
2 large egg whites
170 g (3/4 cup) of white sugar
1 dl (1/3 cup) corn syrup
2 Tbsp cold water
1/4 tsp cream of Tartar (alternative you can use 1 tsp fresh lemon juice)
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract or almond extract

Optional:
Food coloring

Direction.

Place all the ingredients except but the vanilla into the top of a double boiler with fast-boiling water below.

Take your handheld electric mixer and beat the mixture until the icing has stiff peaks.

Remove the double boiler from heat, add the vanilla extract and keep on beating until it is thick, glossy.

You can add drops of food coloring if you like.

Spread it onto cakes with a metal spatula or pipe it onto cupcakes with a piping bag and large piping tips, like Wilton 1M.

Happy Caking!

Louise

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Sibel says:

Feb 5, 2012

Yummy! Louise, does the angel feather icing taste similar to the swiss meringue buttercream WITHOUT the added butter or your white meringue frosting? I always get tempted to leave the butter out when i make SMB since it already tastes so delicious just as is, once i added some vanilla and a spoon of strawberry jam and iced a cake it was great. What does the lemon juice and cream of tartar add? Stability? I’m getting hungry….

Louise says:

Feb 6, 2012

The lemon juice or cream of tartar makes the meringue more strong. Remember to only use either lemon juice or cream of tartar. I also sometimes just leave out the butter when I make SMBC or IMBC taste so good

Erika says:

Feb 4, 2012

Those look so cute. I have not tried making frosting with that recipe before it is something I will try now.

Thank you. You should really try the Angel frosting. It is SO good. Taste great on ice cream too

Joy says:

Feb 3, 2012

The cupcake looks heavenly.

Dhanya says:

Feb 2, 2012

Thanks Louise for the reply.I will try this icing soon:)

MJ says:

Do you have any sugar free icing recipes? My son is 19 and a type 1 diabetic so sugar is his enemy or his best friend depending on if his glucose is high or low. When i bake with sugar i always have to hide most of what i bake so he is not tempted to over enduldge. that means only a normal portion! I usually make tiny cookies or the tiny muffin size cupcakes and then only put out a few a day. So sad.

Howdy! From San Antonio TX. I made heart cutout cookies and prepared the royal icing using your directions with pictures. The pictures were a comfort to know I was doing it correctly. Practice makes perfect on the piping with a steady hand! The ‘flooding’ was fun. I was so excited that I forgot to color the icing so the red sugar chrystals came in handy. This weekend I’ll try the Angel Feather Icing. I have enjoyed your blog too.