Hello everyone!
I hope you’re having a lovely Easter weekend! Easter is one of my favourite times of year to bake, and today I am going to share my Easter Mini Egg Cupcakes recipe. I’ve baked this recipe a couple of times and I love them, I’ve also had a few requests for the recipe, so I’m really excited to share it with you. You can personalise it to your favourite chocolate too as there are so many different mini eggs available now! I used Cadbury’s hot chocolate powder for the cocoa powder and Cadbury’s Mini Eggs as they’re both my favourites and they taste fantastic together in these cupcakes!
Usually when I bake a full batch of cakes, I share them with my friends and family, however because of lockdown it’s not really possible to do that at the moment, and as there’s just 2 of us in my house, I’ve been baking in smaller batches and dividing recipes down to just one egg (as halving an egg can be a little tricky!). Therefore, this recipe will roughly make 6 cupcakes but feel free to multiply the ingredients to make more (or less).
Ingredients:
Cake:
58g/ 2oz butter, softened, or soft margarine
58g/ 2oz caster sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
43g/ 1.5oz self-raising flour
13g/ 0.5oz cocoa powder
Buttercream:
43g/ 1.5oz unsalted butter, softened
88g/ 3oz icing sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tbsp milk
To decorate:
Mini eggs, I decorated each cupcake with 3 eggs, so for 6 cupcakes that is 18 mini eggs.
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180C/ 350F/ Gas Mark 4. Put 6 paper cases in a bun tray.
2. Place the butter and caster sugar into a large bowl and beat with a hand mixer or fork until light and fluffy.
3. Gradually beat in the egg, add a little flour if it starts to curdle.
4. Sift in the rest of the flour and fold into the mixture with a metal spoon.
5. Mix the cocoa powder with a little water, I used a mini mug for this, and mix to a paste. Pour into the mixture and stir until smooth and fully combined.
6. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases. Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 mins, or until risen and firm to the touch.
7. Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool.
~ Decoration Time ~
1. To make the buttercream, put the butter in a bowl and beat with a hand mixer or fork until fluffy.
2. Sift in the icing sugar and beat together until well mixed.
3. Again mix, the cocoa powder with a little water to a paste. Pour into the mixture and beat until smooth and fully combined.
4. Gradually add a little milk to make a creamer texture, make sure not to add too much as we still want it to be stiff enough not to move or run off the cupcake.
5. Pipe on the buttercream, or alternatively spoon on the buttercream and use a knife, turning in a circle from the centre of the cupcake to create a smooth finish to the top of the cupcake.
6. Finally decorate with your mini eggs.
Happy baking!
I hope you enjoyed today’s post! I’m currently aiming to continue posting weekly, on Saturdays at 4pm BST, with a mixture of craft, sewing and knitting tutorials, book reviews, baking recipes and more 💛
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Stay safe and best wishes,
Emily M x
(p.s. I have a little surprise coming to the blog this week, which I’m super excited to share with you! Be sure to check back here tomorrow for more details 😉)
Oo these cupcakes look delicious! 😋 and I love the way you decorated them! 💕
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Aw thank you! ☺️💕
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These look so delicious! The decoration really brings it together, I absolutely love Mini Eggs. Hope you have a very happy Easter 🙂 x
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Thank you! I love decorating, it’s my favourite part of baking 😄 I hope you have a lovely Easter 💛 x
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I’m poops at icing, though I have been practising recently. Take care! x
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Aww I do have all the piping equipment but recently I’ve been opting to just spoon the buttercream on to not waste any of it 😉🧁 Take care x
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That’s how I do it, unless I’m feeling fancy. Even then it’ll just be a plastic bag with the corner snipped off haha! x
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That’s a great hack, I’ve actually tried that before! It’s a lot cheaper than buying piping bags 🙈💛
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Yes it is, and you can get nozzles just the size you need 🙂
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Yes! I’ve bought the coloured writing icing kits before from the supermarket for birthday cakes etc. and they usually come with 3 different sized tips, so I keep them to reuse again in future bakes 😉💛
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That’s handy! ❤
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They look so cute, and tasty;)
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Aw thank you! I love them so much, I definitely think they’re tastier if you mix the cocoa powder to a paste instead of adding it dry 😊💛
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Emily these cupcakes look fabulous! I might have to give them a go myself! the icing looks so smooth and professionally done, as are the photos! great blog post xx
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Aw thank you so much Grace! ☺️💛
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Those sound great, I will definitely try to make them 💕! Have a great Easter 🐣
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Thank you! Happy Easter 🐣💕
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Oooh these look absolutely delicious! I’ve been meaning to do some easter baking but the weather has been so nice that I haven’t gotten around to it! I might try this recipe out tomorrow!
Soph – https://sophhearts.com x
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Aw thank you so much! 😊 The weather has been so lovely recently! I wasn’t expecting it to be so warm this early in the year, it feels like it was only Winter a couple of weeks ago! 💛
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Oooohhh these are so cute and they look delicious xx 💕
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Aw thank you ☺️💛
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Hmmm…these cupcakes look sooo amazing! And I have to make them because I am slightly too obsessed with mini eggs!
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Aw thank you 😊 I love mini eggs too! Even though Easter is almost over I’ll definitely be making more of these cupcakes in the next few weeks! 🧁💛
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these look amazing!!
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aw thank you! 😊💕
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