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Chocolate Easter egg cupcakes

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 30 mins
  • Serving: 12 people (makes 12)
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups self-raising flour
    • ¼ cup cocoa
    • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
    • ⅔ cup castor sugar
    • 80g reduced-fat spread, melted, cooled
    • ¾ cup buttermilk
    • 2 eggs
    • 12 small caramel-filled Easter eggs
    • Icing
    • ¾ cup icing sugar
    • 2 tablespoons cocoa
    • 1 teaspoon reduced-fat spread
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat oven to 200°C. Line a 1/2-cup capacity 12-hole muffin pan with paper cases. Sift flour, cocoa and baking soda into a large bowl. Add sugar. Stir to combine. Whisk together spread, buttermilk and eggs in a large jug. Add buttermilk mixture to flour mixture. Gently combine using a metal spoon.

    2 Place one spoonful of batter into paper cases. Place a caramel egg into the centre of each cupcake. Cover with more batter. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until cupcake bounces back when gently pressed. Transfer onto a wire rack. Cool.

    3 To make icing, sift icing sugar and cocoa into a bowl. Add spread and 3 teaspoons hot water. Stir until smooth. Add more hot water if icing is too thick. Spread icing onto cooled cupcakes. Serve.

    Variations

    Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free baking mix, baking powder and cocoa, and check baking soda and icing sugar are gluten free.

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