Santiago of the Seas Cupcakes
Inspired by Nickelodeon's 'Santiago of the Seas' - recipes and videos show you how to make these Santiago- and Lorelai- themed cupcakes!
Servings: 24 cupcakes
Calories: 495kcal
Equipment
- 2 Cupcake pans (24 cups total)
- 1 large cookie scoop (optional, but makes transferring batter much easier)
- 1 small piping bags + tips (optional)
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs (or ¾ cup egg whites if coloring your cupcakes)
- 1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
- Purple gel food coloring (Optional; I used purple gel color for the Lorelai cupcake set)
Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese (one package; softened)
- 1 cup butter (two sticks, softened)
- 6 cups powdered sugar
- 1-2 Tablespoons milk
- 1 Tablespoon clear vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt if using unsalted butter
- Save and add later if needed – food coloring!
- Red gel food coloring (Optional; I used red and yellow for the Santiago cupcakes)
- yellow gel food coloring
- Purple gel food coloring (Optional; I used purple gel color for the Lorelai cupcake set)
Decorations
- Mermaid and seashell mold
- White Candy Melts
- Sprinkle mix of your choice (I used Fancy Sprinkles ‘Freak Show’ and Wilton’s gold and pearl sprinkle mixes)
Instructions
Cupcakes
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees F, and prepare 24 muffin tins with cupcake liners. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir to combine and set aside.
- In a medium or stand mixer bowl, cream together butter and sugar until lightened. Mix in eggs, vanilla, and buttermilk – the mix will look clumpy and strange at this stage. This is normal!
- Add flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined, then gently fold in your food coloring if using. Don’t overmix! The batter will be fairly thick.
- Divide the batter evenly between the cupcake liners, filling them about 2/3 to 3/4 full. Bake for 16-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean. Allow to cool completely before frosting.
Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting
- Beat together softened cream cheese and butter; slowly add in powdered sugar alternating with milk until frosting reaches desired consistency. Add vanilla and salt if needed and beat until well combined.
- Remove 1 cup frosting into each of 3 small bowls and color red, yellow, and purple. Transfer to piping bags.
- Decorate each cupcake with frosting - I used a mix of red, yellow, and white for the Santiago cupcakes and purple for the Lorelai cupcakes. But you can decorate however you'd like!
Cupcake toppers (Printable coloring pages)
- I’ll attach the photos I used for toppers below, but if you want the PDFs I created for printing please feel free to email me! The PDF files weren’t playing nice with Wordpress. :/
- Print your toppers out, have your kiddos cut them out, and tape them to toothpicks to make cute cupcake toppers! Eat your cupcakes while you enjoy the next episode of Santiago of the Seas!
Video
Notes
Please note nutrition information is an estimate and may not be exactly accurate.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cupcake | Calories: 495kcal | Carbohydrates: 64g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 24g