Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes

I'm a little late with making these since Easter was almost 2 weeks ago, but I have been wanting to try them since last year and had everything ready to make them. So I was with 2 of my nieces at the weekend, I thought it was a good time to give it a go.

I did cheat with these and didn't make anything from scratch, but the same principles would apply if making them from scratch.



Ingredients

• Chocolate cupcake packet mix
• Mini creme eggs for inside the cupcakes
• Pre-made butter icing or cream cheese icing
• Yellow food colouring
• Mini creme eggs or cadbury's mini eggs for decoration

Cupcakes

• Mix up the recipe for chocolate cupcakes - I used a packet mix of chocolate red velvet as that was all I could find in the supermarket
• Divide the mixture between the cases
• Place a mini creme egg standing up into the centre of the cupcake mixture. The mixture didn't quite cover the mini egg
• Bake cupcakes according to the instructions
• Remove from oven and allow to cool. The creme egg should now be covered as the cakes will have risen in the oven

Decoration

• I purchased pre-made cream cheese frosting as it was whiter in colour and I wanted it to look a bit like a fried egg with the white and yellow frosting
• Cover the tops of the cupcakes with white frosting. You can either spread it on or pipe it on.
• Once all cupcakes are covered with a layer of white frosting, add yellow food colouring to the remainder of the frosting
• Using a plain round nozzle in a piping bag, pipe circles of yellow frosting in the middle of each cupcake
• To finish off use cadbury's mini creme eggs or cadbury's mini eggs
• One of the creme eggs had split in half, so I decided to do that with the others as I thought it looked good. I didn't have enough creme eggs so I finished the others off with the mini eggs and I think they still look effective.

My nieces loved the novelty of these cakes and enjoyed being able to join in on the fun.