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COOK ——– IE (reads the Cookie Monster on an episode of Sesame Street from the dim memory of my childhood.

COOK—IE.

COOOOKIEEEE.

COOKIE!!!!

OM NOM NOM NOMNOMNOMNOMNOM!

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

This is how people react when they see my Cookie Monster Cupcakes. Making them again seems an appropriate way to end the madness of Cupcake a Day May.

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

It’s the third time I’ve made Cookie Monster Cupcakes, though the first where I have been bothered to make my own cookies. They are my Ultimate Ulitmate Chocolate Chip Cookies, and if you haven’t made them yet, it’s time you did!

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

If you are what you eat, the Cookie Monster must be chocolate chip, so the cupcakes are chocolate chip too. Vanilla flavoured, blinging blue butter roux frosting makes Cookie’s fur, and pools of white and dark chocolate make his googly eyes. I’ve done this from scratch but you can cheat by just putting blobs of dark chocolate onto some white chocolate buttons if you like. Just remember, the secret to Cookie’s eyes is first, off-centre pupils, and second, pupils looking in different directions.

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

ingredients

115g butter, softened
115g sugar
2 eggs
115g self raising flour
1 tsp vanilla
65g chocolate chips

mixing

Line a 12 hole muffin pan with cupcake cases, spray with non-stick spray.

Beat butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well between each addition. Mix in flour. Beat well until batter is fluffy. Stir in chocolate chips.

Spoon into the cupcake cases and bake at 175 degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.

When the cupcakes are cold, load the Butter Roux Frosting into a piping bag fitted with a spaghetti nozzle (eg Wilton 234) or a fine star nozzle. Using short squeezes of frosting followed by a sharp upward motion to disconnect the frosting from the nozzle, pipe a ring of “fur” around the edge of the cupcake , then sit the cookie on top, overlapping one edge of the ring. Pipe more “fur” all over the cookie. Place two googly eyes close together in the centre top of the cupcake. You’ll notice the different expressions you can get just by eye placement! Chill the cupcakes until the frosting has set.

Evolution of a Cookie Monster Cupcake

Butter Roux Frosting

ingredients

2/3 cup milk
2 tbsp flour

About 1/2 tsp royal blue gel colouring (I use Wilton).
2/3 cup caster sugar
165g unsalted butter, softened

1 tsp vanilla

mixing

In a small saucepan, mix the flour with a little milk until you have a smooth paste, then add the rest of the milk. Add the colouring- yes, blue food! It’s best to add it to the milk because the colouring is water soluble, rather than fat soluble. Cook mixture over a medium heat until the mixture thickens and boils.

Cool to room temperature – this is important, if the flour mixture is too hot the resulting frosting will be soupy! If this happens, chill the mixture and beat again.
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. With the mixer still running, add the flour mixture, a tablespoon at a time, beating until all incorporated. Add the vanilla.

Refrigerate the mixture for 10-15 minutes before use.

Googly eyes

35g white chocolate (Melts are fine), melted
15g dark chocolate (Melts are fine), melted

Load the melted white chocolate into a small ziplock bag, squeeze the air out, and take a tiny snip off the corner of the bag. Pipe 26 -28 2cm rounds of chocolate onto a sheet of baking paper (you only need 24 but it’s nice to have options!). Let the rounds set at room temperature.

Load the melted dark chocolate into another small ziplock bag, squeeze the air out, and take a tiny snip off of the corner of the bag. Pipe dots off-centre onto each of the white chocolate rounds. Let everything set at room temperature.

Google eyes

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Make a 1/2 batch of my Ultimate Ulitmate Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe (you need 12 4cm diameter cookies, eat the rest!), or use good quality commercial chocolate chip cookies.