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Creme Egg Cupcakes

Have fun this Easter with these Creme Egg Cupcakes!

Creme Egg Cupcakes

Creme Egg Cupcakes

Ren Behan
Made with Cadbury's Creme Eggs, for a egg-stra special treat this Easter. 
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 2 minutes
Total Time 17 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 12 cakes

Ingredients
  

  • 125 g caster sugar
  • 125 g unsalted butter or margarine at room temperature
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 100 g self-raising flour or plain flour + 1 tsp baking powder
  • 25 g cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 12 large Crème eggs unwrapped
  • For the vanilla frosting
  • 125 g unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 250 g icing sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • To decorate
  • 12 mini Crème eggs unwrapped

Instructions
 

  •  Place the large Crème eggs into the freezer. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with cupcake liners.
  • Beat the sugar and butter or margarine together in a bowl until light and fluffy. Slowly add in the eggs and a tablespoon of flour at a time. Sift in the rest of the flour and the cocoa powder and mix well. Stir in the milk and mix again.
  • Put one spoonful of the cupcake mixture into each paper case. Take the Crème eggs out of the freezer and place one whole egg into the case, pressing it down gently into the mixture. Put another spoonful of the cupcake mixture on top of each egg. Using the back of a teaspoon, gently even out the cupcake mixture in the case, so that the top of the Crème egg is just showing.
  • Bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Take the cupcakes out of the oven, let them cool in the tin slightly and then place them onto a wire rack.
  • To make the vanilla frosting, beat the butter for a few minutes until it is pale and creamy. Slowly add in the icing sugar until it is all incorporated and beat for a few minutes. Add the vanilla, followed by the milk to loosen the mixture slightly. Transfer the buttercream into a piping bag fitted with a round-holed nozzle.
  • Pipe the buttercream onto each cupcake and decorate each cake with one mini egg, cut into two halves.

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4 Comments

  1. Can’t imagine anyone refusing one of these with a cup
    Of tea. Looking forward to hearing more about your news.

    1. Ren Behan says:

      Thanks Sally for all your support!

    1. Ren Behan says:

      Thanks Mardi – and for your lovely email, too.

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