Flame chocolate cupcakes for firefighters (Plameni mini cokoladni kolacici za vatrogasce)

This is a recipe for chocolate cupcakes intended for firefighters, with two-tone yellow-orange cream and sweet sticks, which look like a small fire. The recipe contains exact measurements for 12 pieces, tips for baking, a trick to prevent the colors from mixing in the piping bag, and options for how to brew coffee for the dough.

Tags: for firefighters, for kids (if you use water).

Preparation time: 50 minutes.

Cooling time: 30 minutes.

Total preparation time: 2 h 20 minutes (mostly depends on decorating time).

Mascarpone cream making not counted.

Ingredients:

For chocolate cupcakes (12 pieces):

• 150 g of all purpose flour (plain flour)
• 150 g of sugar
• 40 g of cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder
• ½ teaspoon of baking soda
• A pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 120 ml of milk
• 60 ml of neutral vegetable oil (sunflower or canola oil)
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 120 ml hot water (or hot filtered coffee* for a better chocolate taste, see note)

For the cream in flame colors:

• Mascarpone cream
• Yellow and orange (or red) food coloring (preferably in gel)

For decoration:

• Sweet sticks (pocky or mikado) or savory sticks (broken in half, 3-4 cm (1.2-1.6 inches) like wooden sticks)

Needed: 12-hole muffin tin, 12 paper cups. 

Flour by country US, UK, FR, IT, DE 

Preparation:

A) MAKING CUPCAKES 

1. Heat the oven to 180°C (356 °F). Place 12 paper baskets in the muffin tin.
2. In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
3. In another bowl, beat egg, milk, oil and vanilla extract.
4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix briefly with a mixer.
5. At the end, slowly pour hot water (or coffee) and stir with a spatula. The mixture will be thin, but it should be that way so that the cakes are juicy.
6. Pour the mixture into the baskets (fill up to ⅔ height).
7. Bake for 18–20 minutes at 180°C (356 °F). Check with a toothpick whether the mini cookies are baked.
8. Stick a toothpick in the middle of the mini cookies, if they come out clean or with only a few dry crumbs, they are baked. Leave them to cool completely.
9. If there is live and sticky dough on the toothpick, the cookies are not baked. Return to the oven for another 3-5 minutes. Check again with a toothpick in the middle of the second cookie.

B) MAKING CREAMS in the colors of flames

Divide the cream into two equal parts. 

Add yellow color to one part, and orange* (see under 3. decoration flame effect, step by step procedure - step 1) to the other and mix until combined.

C) DECORATION (flame effect):

The trick is to put both colors in the same piping bag, but not to mix them inside, but only when you squeeze them onto the mini cookies (cupcakes).

 What do you need? 

• Finished mascarpone cream
• Pastry bag (spritz bag).
• Star nozzle: For example, a “Wilton 1M” nozzle or similar star hole, about 8–10 mm in diameter.

Step by step procedure:

1. Coloring cream

Add the yellow color to the first bowl with the cream. Stir gently to get a nice, clear yellow color.

In another bowl, add the orange color. The goal is to get a bright orange color.

If you don't have orange color, mix a little yellow and less red color.

2. Filling the confectionery (spritz) bag:

Take a pastry bag with a star tip.

Spoon the yellow cream onto one half of the bag (along one inner wall side).

Put the orange cream on the other half of the bag (along the other side).

Line up alternately so that with each press, both colors come out of the piping bag simultaneously through the star nozzle. 

3. Making flames on mini cookies.

First round (basic). Hold the bag upright over the mini cookies. Press the bag and start squeezing the cream in a circle, starting from the edge of the cupcake towards the center. As you squeeze, both colors will come out at the same time, creating a beautiful striped, yellow-orange effect.

Second round (top). Without breaking the pressure, begin to make a smaller, narrow circle on top of the first circle, pulling the bag slightly upwards. At the very end, suddenly stop the pressure and lift the bag up quickly to form a sharp point at the top of the flame.

4. Add the sweet or salty sticks at the very end, once you have finished piping the cream onto the cupcakes.

Break the sticks in half (or into thirds) so they are about 3 to 4 cm (1.2-1.6 inches) long.

Insert one or two pieces into the top of each cupcake, pushing them straight through the cream toward the center of the cake.

Position them at a slight angle so they resemble logs or firewood burning in a flame.

Coffee note:

• If you use Turkish coffee: boil it in a cezve, let the sediment completely settle to the bottom, then pour 120 ml (4 fl. oz.) of coffee (without sediment) and pour it hot into the mixture.
• If you use instant coffee (nescafé): mix 1 teaspoon of nescafé powder in 120 ml (4 fl. oz.) of hot water and pour it into the mixture.

For US:

• Instant coffee with espresso flavor. Mix 1 teaspoon of instant espresso powder in 120 ml (4 fl. oz.) of hot water.
• Instant coffee granules. Freshly brewed filter coffee from the machine.

More recipes for firefighters:

Firefighters meal cream chowder made of lamb, lentils and carrots

Ultra recovery tomato juice for firefighters

Crab burgers with chili for firefighters

Firefighters hot sauce

Protein coffee frappe with chocolate flavor 

Ovo je recept za cokoladne mini kolacice - kapkejkove namenjen vatrogascima, sa dvobojnim zuto-narandzastim kremom i slatkim stapicima, koji izgledaju kao mala vatra. Recept sadrzi tacne mere za 12 komada, savete za pecenje, trik kako da se boje u spricu ne pomesaju i opcije kako da skuvate kafu za testo.

Oznake: za vatrogasce, za decu (ako koristite vodu).

Vreme pripreme: 50 minuta.

Vreme hladjenja: 30 minuta.

Ukupno vreme pripreme: 2 h 20 minuta (najvise zavisi od vremena dekorisanja).

Priprema maskarpone krema nije uracunata.

Sastojci:

Za cokoladne mini kolacice - kapkejkove (12 komada):

• 150 g psenicnog glatkog brasna tip 400
• 150 g secera
• 40 g kakao praha
• 1 kasicica praska za pecivo
• ½ kasicice sode bikarbone
• Prstohvat soli
• 1 jaje
• 120 ml mleka
• 60 ml neutralnog biljnog ulja (suncokretovo ili ulje uljane repice)
• 1 kasicica vanila ekstrakta 
• 120 ml vruce vode (ili vruce procedjene kafe* za bolji ukus cokolade, vidi napomenu)

Za krem u bojama plamena:

• Maskarpone krem 
• Zuta i narandzasta (ili crvena) prehrambena boja (najbolje u gelu)

Za dekoraciju:

• Slatki stapici (pocky ili mikado) ili slani stapici (lomljeni na pola, 3-4 cm, kao drvca)

Potrebno: kalup za mafine sa 12 rupa, 12 papirnih korpica.

Brasno po zemljama US, UK, FR, IT, DE 

Priprema:

A) Pravljenje kapkejkova

1. Ugrejati rernu na 180°C. U kalup za mafine staviti 12 papirnih korpica.
2. U jednoj posudi pomesati sve suve sastojke: brasno, secer, kakao prah, prasak za pecivo, sodu bikarbonu i so.
3. U drugoj posudi umutiti jaje, mleko, ulje i vanila ekstrakt.
4. Spojiti mokre i suve sastojke i kratko umutiti mikserom.
5. Na kraju polako uliti vrucu vodu (ili kafu) i promesati spatulom. Smesa ce biti retka, ali tako i treba kako bi kolači bili sočni.
6. Sipati smesu u korpice (popuniti do ⅔ visine).
7. Peci 18–20 minuta na 180°C. Proveriti cackalicom da li su mini kolacici peceni. 
8. Zabosti cackalicu sredinu mini kolacica, ako izadje cista ili samo sa par suvih mrvica, peceni su. Ostaviti ih da se potpuno ohlade.
9. Ako na cackalici ima zivog i lepljivog testa, kolacici nisu peceni. Vratiti u rernu na jos 3-5 minuta. Opet proveriti cackalicom u sredini drugog kolacica.

B) Pravljenje krema u bojama plamena

Podeliti krem na dva jednaka dela. U jedan deo dodati zutu boju, a u drugi narandzastu* (vidi pod 3. dekoracija efekat plamena, postupak korak po korak, korak 1) i promesati dok se ne sjedini.

C) Dekoracija (efekat plamena):

Trik je u tome da obe boje stavite u istu kesu za šlag, ali da se one ne pomešaju unutra, već tek kada ih istisnete na mini kolacice (kapkejkove).

 Sta vam je potrebno? 

• Gotov maskarpone krem
• Poslastičarska kesa (spric kesa).
• Zvezdasti nastavak: Na primer, nastavak tipa “Wilton 1M” ili sličan zvezdasti otvor, precnika oko 8–10 mm.

Postupak korak po korak:

1. Bojenje krema

U prvu činiju sa kremom dodajte žutu boju. Promešajte lagano da dobijete lepu, čistu žutu boju.

U drugu činiju dodajte narandzastu boju. Cilj je da dobijete jarko narandžastu boju.

Ako nemate narandzastu boju, pomesajte malo zute i manje crvene boje.

2. Punjenje poslasticarske (spric) kese:

Uzmite poslastičarsku kesu sa zvezdastim nastavkom.

Kašikom stavite žuti krem na jednu polovinu kese (uz jednu unutrašnju zidnu stranu).

Naradzasti krem stavite na drugu polovinu kese (uz drugu stranu).

Redjajte naizmenicno da bi pri svakom pritisku iz sprica izlazile obe boje istovremeno kroz zvezdasti nastavak.

3. Pravljenje plamena na mini kolacicima.

Prvi krug (osnova). Drzite kesu uspravno iznad mini kolacica. Pritisnite kesu i pocnite da istiskujete krem u krug, pocevsi od ivice kolacica prema sredini. Dok istiskujete, obe boje će izlaziti istovremeno, stvarajući prelep prugasti, žuto-narandžasti efekat.

Drugi krug (vrh). Ne prekidajuci pritisak, pocnite da pravite manji, uzi krug na vrhu prvog kruga, blago povlaceci kesu nagore. Na samom kraju naglo prestanite sa pritiskom i podignite kesu brzo uvis kako bi se formirao ostar spic na vrhu plamena.

4. Slatke ili slane stapiće stavljate na samom kraju, kada završite istiskivanje krema na mini kolacice.

Izlomite štapiće na pola (ili na trećine) tako da budu dužine oko 3 do 4 cm.

Zabodite po 1 ili 2 komada u vrh svakog kapkejka, direktno kroz krem prema sredini biskvita.

Postavite ih blago pod uglom kako bi izgledali kao cepanice ili drva koja gore u plamenu.

Napomena za kafu:

• Ako koristite tursku kafu: Skuvajte je u dzezvi, ostavite da se soc (talog) potpuno slegne na dno, pa odlijte 120 ml kafe bez soca i sipajte vruce u smesu.
• Ako koristite instant kafu (neskafu): Razmutite 1 kasicicu neskafe u prahu u 120 ml vruce vode i to ulijte u smesu.

Za US:

• Instant kafa sa ukusom espresa. Razmutite 1 kasicicu instant espreso praha u 120 ml vruce vode. 
• Instant granule kafe. Sveže skuvana filter kafa iz aparata.

Jos recepata za vatrogasce:

Za vatrogasce obrok krem corba od jagnjetine, sociva i sargarepe

Super oporavak sok od paradajza za vatrogasce

Kraba pljeskavice sa cilijem za vatrogasce

Vatrogasni ljuti sos

Proteinski frape od kafe s ukusom cokolade