WICKED Good Maze Runner Cupcakes for Scorch Trial Parties

Feeling WICKED? Give your runners a taste of sweet freedom with these deceptively delicious Maze Runner Cupcakes that look like corn on the cob!

 

Ok, I know what you’re thinking when you see these Maze Runner cupcakes. We confused Maize and Maze. Hey, it’s a valid point! Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials actually has nothing to do with, say, running through a corn maze. BUT, running through a corn maze IS fun, and it’s made of corn! Also, in Maze Runner, the characters do need to grown their own food, like corn. So yes, corn is in the movie. Corn also gives fuel to the runners. Besides, do you know how hard it would be to make cupcakes shaped like mazes? Try it. I dare you!

Seriously, though, these Maze Runner cupcakes are a play on the simple foods that are favorite characters eat throughout the film, except they’re a whole lot sweeter! They’re also just plain fun! Now that we’ve cleared up the fact that yes, dear readers, we really DO understand the difference between maize and maze, let’s see how to make these fun cupcakes!

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“The Maze Runner” Cupcakes

 

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Cupcake Recipe

Cupcake Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2  C flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/8 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 C sugar
  • 1/2 C unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 large egg whites
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/3 C buttermilk
  • yellow gel food coloring

 

Cupcake Directions: 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake pan with paper liners.
  • Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Sit aside.
  • Using  an electric stand mixer whip the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy in the mixing bowl.
  • Add in an egg, then the egg whites one at a time.  Add the vanilla with the second egg white.
  • Start to mix 1/3 of the flour mixture alternating with 1/2 of the buttermilk. Mix after each addition only until just combined.
  • Add yellow gel food coloring.  Mix well.
  • After all ingredients are blended scoop the batter into the paper lined cupcake pan until each tin is 3/4’s filled.
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
  • Allow cupcakes to cool in cupcake pan for 10 minutes.
  • Remove cupcakes from pan and place each on a wire rack until completely cooled.

Frosting Recipe

Frosting Ingredients:

  • 1 C butter, room temp
  • 4 C powdered sugar
  • 4 TBSP heavy cream

Frosting Directions: 

  • Cream the butter and powder sugar until it looks light and creamy.
  • If it doesn’t cream add several drops of the heavy whipping cream until it creams.
  • Test to see if the frosting can form and hold a stiff peak by taking a spoonful of frosting and turning the spoon upside down. If the frosting stays on the spoon it is ready if not then….Add more powder sugar 1/2 C at a time…. mix well.
  • Test to make sure that the frosting can make and hold a stiff peak.
  • Divide the frosting into two bowls. Add several drops of red gel food coloring and mix well. In the second bowl add several drops of green gel food coloring and mix well.
  • If ready scoop the red  frosting into a pastry bag  first then on top of the red frosting add the green frosting to the bag with a star tip.
  • Twist the open end of the pastry bag to push the frosting to the tip.
  • Do a simple flat frosting on each cupcake to add as glue for the jelly beans..

Popcorn Kernels:

Feeling WICKED? Give your runners a taste of sweet freedom with these deceptively delicious Maze Runner Cupcakes that look like corn on the cob!

Ingredients:

  • Bag of different colored yellow jelly beans.
  • Cup full of white jelly beans and another cup of marshmallow flavored jelly beans.

Directions:

-Place yellow jelly beans in a row resembling fresh corn kernels on a corn cob.  To make the cupcake look more like a corn of the cob put white jelly beans in between some of the yellow jelly beans.  The marshmallow flavored jelly beans will add the look of roasted corn on the cupcake so place them anywhere you want them on the cupcakes.

That’s it! I know, it seems like a lot of instructions, but it’s really quite easy! When you’re done, you have really fun Maze Runner cupcakes for you and your friend to enjoy for snacks or at your next party!

What other types of foods would you make for a Maze Runner party? Try to come up with ideas that the characters would actually be able to make, or that would LOOK like simple foods they’d have access to! Tell us in the comments!

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15 thoughts on “WICKED Good Maze Runner Cupcakes for Scorch Trial Parties

  1. Those are super cool looking cupcakes. I think they look like they would be fun for a corn maze birthday party, too.

  2. This is so cool! I lvoe the play on the words – maze – I didn’t even think corn when I first read it..LOL Great idea!

  3. These are too cute and would be perfect for a fall party! Or even for homeschoolers like me to bake with their kiddos when learning the letter C!

  4. Ok these just might be the cutest cupcakes ever!!!!! Perfect for fall. I so need to make these.

  5. I absolutely love theme parties…and I am obsessed with cupcakes, so this post feels like it was meant for me. Can’t wait to check out your Hunger Games entertaining post–one of my favorite book/movie series.

  6. So adorable! I never would’ve used jelly beans to make anything look like corn. Awesome idea!

  7. What a cute cupcakes! i never saw cupcakes like these, it is the first time that i heard this. really cute i wanna try it.

  8. The cupcakes are so cute! I wish I had as much creativity as you. I’ll be keeping the cupcake recipe and play around with the toppings to match any party theme that may suddenly come up.

  9. This recipe is super cool! I’ll definitely be sharing it with a friend of mine that asked me if I knew of something like this! Thanks for sharing, it’ll make my friend so happy!

  10. Love this idea for cupcakes, so creative! 🙂 Saying hello from the creative collection!!
    Cathy

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