Creme Egg Cupcakes.

Another yummy treat for the Easter weekend; chocolate cupcakes, butter-cream frosting and two mini Cadbury's creme eggs, I don't think you can really go wrong with that can you? 

Recipe

For the Chocolate Cupcakes:

110g unsalted butter, softened

220g dark brown sugar

2 eggs

165g self raising flour

55g cocoa powder

½  tsp bicarbonate of soda

½ tsp baking powder 

140ml sour cream

12 Cadbury's Creme Egg minis

For the Butter-cream Frosting:

500g icing sugar, sieved

160g unsalted butter, softened

50ml whole milk

3-4 drops of vanilla extract

Yellow food colouring

12 Cadbury's Creme Egg minis

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°c.

2. Line a muffin tin with 12 muffin cases.

3. For the cake, cream together the butter and sugar using an electric whisk. Gradually beat in the eggs. Add the sour cream. Sieve together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and fold in to the mixture. Divide the mixture between the cake cases, filling each half full and place a Cadbury's creme mini egg into the centre of each and cover with more mixture so each case is about 2/3 full.

4.Bake for 15-17 minutes or until risen and just firm to touch. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.

5.Prepare the butter-cream  frosting. Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl, add the softened butter, vanilla and milk and beat until pale, soft and fluffy. You are aiming for as white as possible to form the egg on top.

6. Pipe a swirl of white frosting onto the top of each cake using a large round piping nozzle and then colour the remaining icing yellow. Pipe a yellow dot into the middle of each swirl to form the yolk and place another Cadbury's creme mini egg onto the top of each cupcake.

Note. Although, I had wanted to make a bright, vibrant, yolk yellow I had to use a pale yellow frosting instead as my food colouring just wouldn't go beyond pale yellow and the more colouring I added, the more my frosting became very bitter and chemically to taste. I used Morrison's natural yellow food colouring but, I will deffinately invest in a proper food colouring paste or gel in the future to gain a better colour and flavour. I have heard Wilton colour gels are very good.