Mini Egg Cupcakes for Easter
These delicious Mini Egg cupcakes are so quick and easy to make! Using a classic vanilla cupcake as a base, the topping comes together quickly and these Easter cupcakes will make a perfect Easter treat (because you can't have Easter without cupcakes!).
Equipment
- Piping Bags
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
- 170 grams caster sugar
- 170 grams Stork or buttercream
- 3 medium eggs
- 225 grams self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 80 grams Mini Eggs
For the buttercream
- 150 grams unsalted butter at room temperature
- 300 grams icing sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- white food colouring
- green food colouring
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180ºC/160ºC Fan/Gas 4. Line a 12 hole muffin tin with cupcake wrappers. I like to use cupcake wrappers from Purple Cupcakes.
- In a stand mixer, or large bowl using a hand mixer, cream together the Stork/butter and caster sugar until light and fluffy.
- Crack the eggs into a jug and lightly whisk. Add the eggs to the butter and sugar mix, then the vanilla extract, and mix until well combined.
- Add the flour, mixing until only just combined. Using an ice cream scoop (for level cupcakes) or a spoon, divide the mixture between the cupcake cases. They should each be about 2/3 full.
- Bake the cupcakes for 18-20 minutes or until they’re firm to touch and golden brown in colour. As this is a Madeira cake recipe, the cupcakes will not be as pale as other recipes. Allow to cool in the tin for a couple of minutes, then lift them out (I like to stab them with a fork and lift them out of the baking tin) and put them on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Whilst the cupcakes are cooling, make your buttercream. Put the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer and gently beat until soft.
- Start adding your icing sugar, a little at a time until it’s all combined. Add the vanilla extract and white food colouring to give a base colour.
- You'll need to colour up buttercream for the nests and the grass. Divide the buttercream in half and colour half brown using the cocoa powder and half green using green gel food colouring. For pastel colours, use the gel colour sparingly as you can always add more if you want a stronger shade. Put the brown buttercream into a piping bag with a Jem 2D Nozzle and the green buttercream into a piping bag with grass piping nozzle.
- Pipe a brown swirl into the centre of each cupcake. Next, pipe grass around the brown swirl to replicate grass. Add 3 Mini Eggs to the centre of the brown swirl and voila! Easy Easter cupcakes!!