I don’t know about you, but we had an obscene amount of chocolate this Easter – far too much for my two little ones to eat up all by themselves! Such are the perks of being a parent sometimes hey?
However, as much as it is great to eat up chocolate eggs I thought I would make some cupcakes with some of it instead. I know its no longer Easter but here are my using up chocolate easter egg cupcakes anyway!!
You will need:
200g caster sugar
200g unsalted butter
4 eggs
200g self raising flour
25g cocoa powder
2 x medium sized easter eggs, which after you have nibbled a few pieces as you break it into smaller chunks, equates to about 100g of milk chocolate
3 tbsp milk
Then you need to:
- Heat the oven to 160oC
- Place the broken pieces of chocolate into a saucepan together with the milk and heat very gently until the chocolate melts and then stir well, and leave to cool slightly
- Beat the sugar and butter until pale and creamy
- Add the eggs and flour and blend together
- Mix in the cocoa powder
- The add the melted milky chocolate and mix well unil all the ingredients are combined
- Fill your paper cases with the mixture (I used an ice cream scoop) – I made 20 cakes in total
- Place in the oven and cook for about 20 minutes until a knife comes out of the cake clean
- Once cooked allow to cool and then top with some chocolate buttercream and (see below) if you like make the buttercream look like a nest
Chocolate Buttercream:
75g unsalted butter
100g icing sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
- then top with some Cadburys mini eggs
then tuck in!!
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These look yummy! The only chocolate we have left is the hotel chocolat egg we had, may use some of that as I’m on a diet from Monday!
Thank you for another fab recipe!
OMG…I’m dribbling! They look yummy! x
Fab idea I was thinking of doing same, may steal your method as I am useless in the kitchen! lol x
They look yummy and what a great idea to use up the Easter Eggs Not a good time of night to want food though lol.
Oh they look gorgeous!
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They look amazing Jenny and a very clever idea! Although ours are all gone! xx
mmmm I so want these x
They look amazing!!!