Cadbury's Creme Egg cupcakes

As I was saying yesterday, the lovely peeps at Just Bake sent me some pretty white broderie anglaise cupcake wrappers and cupcake decorations for Easter. So to fit in with my Neon and pastel colour palette I lined them in neon yellow, green and pink paper. I wanted my cupcake flavours to match the colour of the wrappers, to go with the neon yellow lined wrappers I decided to make chocolate cupcakes with a mini Cadbury's creme egg hidden inside. After some research, the best advice I found was to freeze the eggs first so they wouldn't completely melt inside. To match the gooey chocolate cupcakes I went for a cream cheese and marshmallow frosting and decorated them with white chocolate bunnies on a disc of green sparkles. I baked all my cupcakes in white foil cupcake cases from Just Bake.



Here's how...

Gluten-free Cadbury's Creme Egg cupcakes (makes 12 large cupcakes)

Ingredients

• 60g dark chocolate chips
• 160ml water
• 2 large eggs
• 100g gluten-free self raising flour
• 90g unsalted butter, softened
• 220g Brown sugar
• 40g ground almonds
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 12 frozen mini creme eggs

Cooking instructions

1. Heat oven to 150C fan assisted
2. Line baking tray with cases
3. Place water and chopped chocolate in to a small saucepan, stir over a low heat until smooth, set to one side
4. In a food mixer, beat the butter, sugar and eggs till light and fluffy
5. Stir in the sifted flour, cocoa powder, ground almonds and chocolate mixture
6. Divide half the batter between the cases
7. Place one frozen cream egg into the batter filled cases
8. Divide the rest of the batter between the cases, so you cover the eggs
9. Bake for about 25-30 mins until cakes bounce back when lightly pressed
10. Place on rack to cool

To decorate (for 12 large cupcake sized cakes) Ingredients

• 1 jar of marshmallow Fluff, 213g
• 200g cream cheese, room temperature
• White chocolate bunny disc
• White chocolate strands

Instructions

1. Place the marshamallow fluff and cream cheese in a bowl and whisk till light and fluffy
2. Fill piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle
3. Pipe a swirl of icing on top of the cakes and sprinkle with chocolate sprinkles
4. Place chocolate bunny disc inside

Have a sweet day!