Pinata Cupcakes (Best Sprinkles Cupcakes)

5 from 1 vote

Pretty blue pinata cupcakes with a lovely combination of blue and gold surprise sprinkles on the inside. A cool idea for baby shower cupcakes!

Prep Time15

Cook Time20

Decorating Time45

Total Time1 20

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cupcakes

Calories: 163.4kcal

Preheat oven to 170 °Celsius.
Beat butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, salt, and baking powder. Fold in the sifted ingredients into the creamed mixture alternately with milk, starting and ending with flour.
Fold in the vanilla extract and give the batter a good mix.
Pour batter into baking cups until they are about two thirds full.
Bake the cupcakes for 15 to 20 minutes (depending on the size of the casing you use) or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cupcakes comes out without any wet batter sticking to it.
Remove the cupcakes from oven and let them cool completely before decorating.
To decorate the cupcakes, core the center of each cupcake. For uniformly-sized holes, you can use the back of a large piping tip to mark the circles. Use a jam knife to cut the hole out.
Fill the hole with a little buttercream. Top with the sprinkles and cover the hole with more buttercream.
Spread a layer of buttercream all over the top of the cupcakes and pipe a large rosette on top of each cupcake.
Sprinkles the tops sparsely with more sprinkles.

- When filling the cupcakes casings, make sure not to fill them with batter until the top. Suffice if each casing is filled about two-thirds full. The cupcakes rise well during baking, so it is important that you leave some room for the batter to rise and to avoid it from overflowing.

- I used muffin cups to bake my cupcakes, but you can certainly use cupcake liners. Do take note, however, that depending on the size of your cupcakes, you would need to adjust the baking time accordingly.