Bonfire Cupcakes With Popping Candy

These "crackling" bonfire cupcakes with popping candy are easy to make and perfect for a fireworks night celebration. I chose to use honeycomb matchmakers and the addition of popping candy make them even more fun to eat.

To make the bonfire cupcakes

4oz butter
4oz caster sugar Sugar
4oz self raising flour
2 medium eggs

To make the crackling bonfire decoration

150g Butter
300g Icing Sugar
orange food colouring gel
1tbsp cocoa powder
Popping candy
Honeycomb Matchmakers

Mix the cupcake ingredients together and divide between 12 cupcake cases. Bake at 180C until golden brown and a skewer comes out clean.
Mix the butter and icing sugar together with a small amount of water to make the butter icing.
Take a third of the mixture and add orange colouring to it. This will be the flames.
Take the rest of the mixture and add the cocoa powder.
Put the chocolate butter icing into a piping bag and make a high swirl in the centre of each cupcake.
Break the matchsticks up and arrange them around the swirl as a bonfire.
Sprinkle each cake with popping candy.
Finish the cakes by piping small orange flames.

Constructing the bonfire decoration using MatchMakers

When making these cakes it is important to use orange gel rather than a liquid food colouring. The later will make the icing taste bitter. I use the colour splash gels. You can now buy popping candy in the baking sections at a lot of the supermarkets if you can't find it in the sweet section.

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