Chocolate cupcake topped with creme egg buttercream, these creme egg cupcakes are the perfect sweet treat for easter
Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcake Recipe
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Chocolate cupcake topped with creme egg buttercream
Author: Recipes by Carina
Recipe type: Baking
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 1 Cup | 200g Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- ½ Cup | 125ml Oil
- ½ tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1½ Cup | 190g Flour
- ½ Cup | 60g Cocoa Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 Cup | 250ml Buttermilk
- 12 Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs (optional)
- 1 Cup | 2 sticks | 225g Butter
- 2 Cups | 250g Powdered Sugar | Icing Sugar
- 6 Cadbury Creme Eggs
- Melted Chocolate or Chocolate Syrup (optional)
- 6 Cadbury Creme Eggs (optional)
Instructions
- In a medium sized mixing bowl add the sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla extract. Beat with a whisk until combined.
- In a large sized mixing bowl sieve in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add half of the wet ingredients and half of the buttermilk to the dry ingredients and fold together with a wooden spoon.
- Add remaining wet ingredients and buttermilk to the dry ingredients and fold together until just combined.
- Divide the cupcake batter between 12 lined and greased cupcake tins and optionally add a mini creme egg to each, pressing down into the batter.
- Bake the cupcakes at 180 C | 350 F for 15-20 minutes or until the cupcakes spring back when pressed. Cool completely before decorating.
- To make the Cadbury Creme Egg Buttercream add the butter to a stand mixer or a large bowl if you are using a hand mixer and beat on high speed for 5 minutes until light, airy, and doubled in volume.
- Add the sugar in two stages to the butter, beating well in between until fully incorporated.
- Cut the creme eggs in half and half again and add to the buttercream, beating for a further few minutes to break up the eggs.
- Pipe or spread the buttercream onto the cooled cupcakes, top with a little melted chocolate or chocolate syrup and half of a creme egg.
Notes
Optionally you can add a mini creme egg to the cupcakes before baking.
If you don't like buttercream too sweet only add 1½ cups of sugar instead of 2 cups.
If you don't like buttercream too sweet only add 1½ cups of sugar instead of 2 cups.