Easter Egg Cupcakes

I don't know about you, but we had an obscene amount of chocolate this Easter - far too much for my two little ones to eat up all by themselves! Such are the perks of being a parent sometimes hey?

However, as much as it is great to eat up chocolate eggs I thought I would make some cupcakes with some of it instead. I know its no longer Easter but here are my using up chocolate easter egg cupcakes anyway!!

You will need:

200g caster sugar

200g unsalted butter

4 eggs

200g self raising flour

25g cocoa powder

2 x medium sized easter eggs, which after you have nibbled a few pieces as you break it into smaller chunks, equates to about 100g of milk chocolate

3 tbsp milk

Then you need to:

• Heat the oven to 160oC
• Place the broken pieces of chocolate into a saucepan together with the milk and heat very gently until the chocolate melts and then stir well, and leave to cool slightly
• Beat the sugar and butter until pale and creamy
• Add the eggs and flour and blend together
• Mix in the cocoa powder
• The add the melted milky chocolate and mix well unil all the ingredients are combined
• Fill your paper cases with the mixture (I used an ice cream scoop) - I made 20 cakes in total
• Place in the oven and cook for about 20 minutes until a knife comes out of the cake clean
• Once cooked allow to cool and then top with some chocolate buttercream and (see below) if you like make the buttercream look like a nest

Chocolate Buttercream:

75g unsalted butter

100g icing sugar

2 tbsp cocoa powder

• then top with some Cadburys mini eggs

then tuck in!!