Additional Ingredients

For the decoration:

250 grams	Fondant Icing (Silver Spoon) sugar
	Food Colouring brown, green, yellow, blue, pink, red
225 grams	Ready Rolled White Icing (Silver Spoon Create)
	small jelly sweets
	dolly mixtures
	liquorice 1 thin strip

How to make Kids Cupcakes

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1. Heat the oven to 180c, 160c fan, gas 4. Line a cup cake tin with 12 paper cupcake cases.
2. Place the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or electric mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs a little at a time until smooth, adding a little flour if the mixture curdles.
3. Stir in the flour, baking powder and orange zest until smooth
4. Place heaped dessertspoon full in each cupcake case and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and just firm to the touch.
5. For the frosting: sift the royal icing sugar into a bowl and beat in just enough water until smooth and thick.
6. Divide the mixture into smaller bowls and stir a few drops of your chosen food colouring into each bowl, leaving 1 bowl white.
7. Spoon the icing onto the cool cakes and spread to give a smooth coating.
8. Roll out the brown sugarpaste and cut out figure shapes with a small gingerbread man cutter. Use the scraps to make \'bun\' shapes. Attach to the cakes before the icing sets.
9. Roll out the white sugarpaste and cut out stars, snowflakes, candy canes and icing for the sugarpaste \'buns\'. Attach to the cakes before the icing sets.
10. Cut small pieces of liquorice for the gingerbread men \'eyes\' and \'mouths\'. Brush the candy canes with stripes of red food colouring. Attach the sweets to the remaining cupcakes.

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