Easy to Make Minnie Mouse Cupcake Recipe

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Are you planning a Disney-themed party and need some ideas for cute but easy cupcakes? This Minnie Mouse Cupcake Recipe is adorable, easy to make, and would be a hit at the party. We used red frosting to make these cupcakes, but you could use pink frosting to make pink Minnie Mouse cupcakes—either color would work and fit the Disney and Minnie Mouse theme you are going for.

This Disney cupcake recipe is delicious! It can be iced with orange buttercream frosting or you can substitute any flavor and mix it up. This is a great idea for your party planning. Another great idea is to add these cupcakes to your birthday girl’s cake! Surely, your Minnie-themed party with awesome treats and decorations like these is worth making.

How to Make Disney Minnie Mouse Cupcakes

The perfect cupcake for any Disney occasion, the Minnie Cupcake is a must-have! Whether you’re throwing a birthday party or want some tasty dessert treats at home, this will do perfectly without taking up too many hours.

This simple Disney-themed cupcake recipe won’t take too long to prepare. You could also make Mickey and Minnie Cupcakes using this simple recipe for the birthday cupcakes.

Red or Pink Minnie Mouse Cupcake Recipe

We used red icing as the primary color for these cupcakes, but you could easily use pink icing to make pink these cupcakes. Minnie Cupcakes are the perfect way to celebrate any special Disney-themed occasion, and you can come up with many different Minnie Mouse cupcake ideas from these basic cupcakes. You could also turn these cupcakes into Mickey Mouse by changing the sugar cupcake topper to Mickey.

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How to Make Disney Minnie Mouse Cupcakes

Ingredients:

• Flour or cake flour
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Unsalted butter, melted
• Cup sugar
• Vanilla
• Lemon juice
• Whole milk
• Eggs
• Orange oil

Additional items needed for Minnie Cupcakes:

• cupcake pan
• cupcake liners
• cake tester or toothpick
• stand or hand mixer
• decorating tools
• muffin cups
• bow silicone fondant mold (if you have one)

How do you make Minnie Mouse Cupcakes?

This recipe is for baked-from-scratch cupcakes.  If you’re short on time, you can use a box of cake mix to make the cupcakes.  In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

In another bowl, stir milk, lemon juice, or almond extract (optional). Let sit to create buttermilk.

Mix sugar and melted butter. Add eggs one at a time until well blended at a medium speed.

Alternate flour mixture and buttermilk with the butter, sugar, and eggs. Add teaspoons of vanilla extract, too. Mix just until combined.

Using an ice cream scoop to distribute cake mix evenly, scoop cupcake batter in a cupcake pan into liners 3⁄4 full. Arrange the small circles on a cupcake baking pan covered with parchment paper.

Heat the oven to 350°. Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick or cake tester comes clean. Cool on a wire rack. Add pink food coloring to the pink frosting. Line these cupcake cups with paper liners.

Pipe 24 and a few additional bows on parchment paper by filling piping bags with icing.

These vanilla cupcakes are easy to make for your Minnie Mouse-themed party.

Minnie Mouse Themed Cupcakes

Disney World cupcakes are an excellent choice for any fan of the famous Disney character. Minnie Mouse has been one of my favorite characters since I was little, so naturally, these Mickey-shaped treats would be amazing!

These cupcakes are a perfect treat for any Disney fan, young or old and they can be baked a day in advance.  The small size makes it easy for them to eat independently, but they also work well as decorations at birthday parties or even enjoy themselves!

Orange Butter Cream Frosting

• Sugar
• Butter, softened
• Milk
• Orange oil
• Disney Sugar Candies
• red food coloring to tint frosting

To make the frosting, sift confectioner sugar into a separate bowl and mix it with softened butter, milk, and orange oil until smooth and creamy.

Separate a couple of spoonfuls of buttercream into a small ramekin. Add red food coloring until the desired shade is reached. If you have a bow mold, use it with powdered sugar, then add the melted pink fondant for your fondant bow.

White candy melts could also be an option for your candy bow. You could also put mini Oreos in your fondant to make it look even more creative.

Prepare your decorating tools. Use a tiny round decorating tip for the red homemade buttercream frosting and a large circle tip for the white buttercream. You can also try pink buttercream or cream cheese frosting if you prefer. 

To frost the cupcakes, start on the outer edge and squeeze the icing onto the cupcake, going in a circular motion around to the middle, overlapping each layer slightly. Pipe tiny dots, circular patterns, and ribbons around the cupcakes. Top with Disney sugar candies. You can also try Minnie Mouse cupcakes with Oreos.

These could also be on your favorite treats’ top list! Let us know how your cupcakes turned out when you made them!

This fun Disney Themed Edible Playdough and this Cinderella Paper Doll Craft are perfect crafts for a Disney-themed birthday party.

Minnie Mouse Cupcakes

Yield: 16 cupcakes

Prep Time: 25 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Minie Mouse Cupcakes are simple and fun to make and the kids can help with this kitchen project. These would be perfect for a Disney themed party!

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Ingredients

• Cupcake Batter Ingredients List:
• • 1 1⁄2 cups all purpose flour
• • 1 tsp baking powder
• • 1⁄2 tsp salt
• • 1 stick butter, melted
• • 1 1⁄4 cup sugar
• • 1⁄2 tbsp vanilla
• • 1⁄2 tbsp lemon juice
• • 1⁄2 cup whole milk
• • 3eggs
• • 1⁄4 tsp orange oil

Orange Buttercream Frosting

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• 3 Cups sifted confectioner's sugar
• 1/3 Cup Butter, softened 
• 2 Tbsp Milk
• 1/4 tsp orange oil

Instructions

1. In a small bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, and salt.
2. In another small bowl, combine the milk and lemon juice. Let it sit to form buttermilk.
3. In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and melted butter. Add the eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition.
4. Alternate adding the flour mixture and the buttermilk to the butter, sugar, and eggs mixture. Mix just until combined.
5. Fill cupcake liners with batter until they are three-quarters full.
6. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean.
7. Allow the cupcakes to cool on a wire rack.
8. Place a few spoonfuls of buttercream in a small ramekin. Add red food coloring until the desired shade is reached.
9. Prepare your decorating tools. Use a small round tip for the red buttercream frosting and a large round tip for the white buttercream.
10. To frost the cupcakes, start at the outer edge and pipe the icing in a circular motion, overlapping each layer slightly until you reach the center.
11. Decorate with tiny dots, circular patterns, and ribbons. Top with Disney sugar candies.
12. Enjoy!

Notes

Additional items needed:
• cupcake pan
• cupcake liners
• cake tester or toothpick
• stand or hand mixer
• frosting decorating tools

Disney sugar candies and red food coloring to tint frosting

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 308Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 200mgCarbohydrates: 48gFiber: 0gSugar: 38gProtein: 2g

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