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TROPICAL FOOTBALL PULL APART CUPCAKES

Impress any football lover with the taste of the tropics with this delicious football pitch pull apart cupcakes cake.
Course Dessert
Keyword cupcakes, football pitch, novelty cake
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 34 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 34 minutes
Servings 20 CUPCAKES
Calories 540kcal
Author Dimitra

Ingredients

ROASTED PINEAPPLE SAUCE

  • 500 g pineapple cut into chunks
  • 1 teaspoon light brown sugar

MANGO PUREE

  • 120 g frozen mango
  • 40 g sugar
  • zest 1/2 lemon
  • 2 teaspoons lemon juice

CUPCAKES

  • 374 g unsalted butter softened at room temperature
  • 374 g sugar
  • 5 large eggs at room temperature
  • 374 g self-raising flour sifted
  • 6 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste

LIME BUTTERCREAM

  • 450 g unsalted butter softened at room temperature
  • 1 kg icing sugar sifted
  • zest 3 limes zest
  • juice 3 limes juice
  • green gel paste

GOAL POSTS

Instructions

ROASTED PINEAPLE SAUCE

  • Preheat your oven to gas mark 6/200°C/400°F
  • Cut 500g of pineapple into large chunks
  • Place your pineapple pieces on a baking tray and roast them in the oven for 15minutes (remember to set your timer)
  • When your timer goes off turn your pineapple pieces over and roast then for another 15 minutes or until the edges start to brown
  • Take your roasted pineapple out of the oven and leave them to cool
  • When they are cool puree your pineapple pieces with 1 tsp brown sugar

MANGO PUREE

  • Put all your ingredients (120g frozen mango, 40g sugar, zest of half a lemon and 2 tsp lemon juice) in a pan and simmer on a low heat until all the sugar has dissolved and it just starts to bubble
  • Take your pan off of the heat and puree

CUPCAKES

  • Preheat your oven to gas mark 3/ 170°C/ 325°F
  • Take your butter and eggs out of the fridge and put them on your worktop to come to room temperature
  • Beat 374g butter and 374g sugar with your paddle attachment on a medium-high speed for 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Remember to stop and scrap down the sides of your bowl every minute to make sure all the butter and sugar is fully incorporated
  • Crack 5 eggs into a medium/large bowl and give them a quick whisk
  • Turn your mixer back on to a medium speed and add your beaten eggs in 4 stages mixing well between each stage
  • Add 374g flour to your batter and mix on a low speed until combined. Remember to scrap down the sides of your bowl a few times to get all the flour fully incorporated
  • Add 1 tsp vanilla and 6 tbsp. milk and mix for about 20 seconds until just incorporated
  • Stir in your mango puree so all the batter has mango throughout
  • Divide your batter into 20 cupcake cases
  • Cook 10 cupcakes at a time for 17 minutes or when a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the middle of a cupcake
  • Leave to cool

LIME BUTTERCREAM

  • Add 450g butter to your mixer and beat with your paddle attachment or hand held mixer on a high speed for 5 minutes until pale and fluffy
  • Add 1kg icing sugar in 2 batches and beat for 3 minutes between each one
  • Turn your mixer on to a low speed and add the zest of 3 limes and the juice of 3 limes and mix for 1 minute
  • Take 2 tablespoons of buttercream out and save it for later to use for your football lines
  • Add green colouring a little at a time until you get your desired shade of green

FILL CUPCAKES

  • Cut a 1cm hole out of the middle of each cupcake
  • Fill each cupcake with a teaspoon of roasted pineapple puree
  • Put the piece of cupcake you cut out back on top of the cupcake (check video below to see how)

ASSEMBLE FOOTBALL PITCH

  • Place cupcakes on a board or serving tray 4 cupcakes x 5 cupcakes
  • Pipe lime buttercream over each cupcake
  • Spread buttercream to flatten it so all the cupcakes are hidden and you have a flat top
  • Using a small offset spatula dab it gently on top of your buttercream quickly to make small peaks to resemble grass all over the cake
  • Add your goals - check video below to see how
  • Using your white buttercream pipe your 1/2 way line and area

TO SERVE

  • Pull apart, have some fun and enjoy the exotic flavours

Video

Notes

Watch the video above to see:
  • How to get even cupcakes
  • How to fill cupcakes
  • How to make the goal posts
  • How to make everything from start to finish

Nutrition

Calories: 540kcal | Carbohydrates: 91g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 18g | Sodium: 202mg | Sugar: 77g