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With Easter just a couple of days away, I thought I’d post a super cute and simple idea for Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes. I’m a sucker for anything miniaturized, so when I laid my eyes upon mini Cadbury Creme Eggs at Target I immediately threw them into my cart. At that moment I was unsure if I was going simply consume them until I got a stomach ache or create an Easter themed dessert.
After tossing around a few ideas, I decided to make cupcakes. I knew I wanted to bake mini egg into the center, because seriously can it get any better than a Cadbury Egg baked into a cupcake? I think not. Then I experienced a brief moment of brilliance and thought it would be pretty darn adorable and festive to pipe the frosting to mimic an egg.
I don’t really have a recipe for you, this is just more of an method on how to execute the idea.
More Easter Inspiration:
Pavlova with Raspberries and Lemon Curd from Katie of Good Life Eats
Marshmallow Nests from Jaime of Sophistimom
Cascaroñes from Amber of Bluebonnets and Brownies
Nested Easter Egg Cupcakes from Naomi of Bakers Royale
Kettle Krispies Treat Eggs from Kristen of Dine and Dish
Simple Easter Cupcakes from Aimee of Simple Bites
Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
Ingredients:
- 24 paper cupcake liners
- Batter for 24 cupcakes. Box mix works fine or simply use your favorite chocolate cupcake recipe, it’s your call.
- 48 Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs (24 frozen) - You’ll use the frozen ones inside the cupcake batter. Freezing the eggs keeps them from completely vanishing inside the baked cake.
- 1 batch of buttercream frosting
- yellow dye
- Large Round piping tip or snip the end off of a piping bag.
Directions:
- Scoop batter into paper liner 2/3 of the way full. Place one frozen Mini Cadbury Creme Egg into the middle of each cupcake. Use a spatula to spread the batter over the egg.
- Bake according to the recipe you are using. Allow cupcakes to cool completely.
- While your cupcakes are cooking, make your buttercream. My favorite recipe can be found within this Fundamentals Buttercream Frosting Post.
- Remove about 1 cup of buttercream from the mixing bowl and dye it yellow.
- Assemble your piping bag fitted with a large tip and pipe a large circle around the perimeter of the cupcake.
- Fill in the center of the circle with the yellow buttercream and top with a Mini Cadbury Cream Egg.
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This looks seriously amazing, I have to go to target to find those mini eggs!
That icing is so cute! I’d settled on my Easter bake using mini eggs, but now I’m not so sure these look amazing.
I attempted this genius idea last night but I need some advice, how long did you freeze the eggs for? And how do you stop them from sticking to the cupcake cases? Cause although mine tasted great, you would take the cupcake out of the case and the creme egg would be stuck to the case? Thanks in advance
Shannon-
I froze them overnight. I am sorry you had issues with them sticking to the wrappers. Thanks for stopping by.
-Jamie
Has anyone substituted the mini eggs for the regular size ones in the batter?
I’m a sucker for miniatures too. I’ve got mini Oreos and mini Jammie Dodgers in the cupboard that need to adorn a cupcake. These are so cute. I too love Creme Eggs and really want to make these.
Love your adorable idea! Look at your frosting, made me so tempting and want to bite it.
Good job!
As I am addicted to Cadbury Creme Eggs I am close to hyperventilate because of these cupcakes!!!!
I made these for Easter this year. I used your box recipe but wasn’t sure if I was supposed to add additional pudding since the box recipe said it had pudding in it. SO…I threw in a couple scoops of a pudding snack pack! These turned out unbelievable!! Everyone kept saying how professional they looked and tasted! The only thing slightly negative – the frozen egg in the middle was yummy and gooey but the cream dissipated a bit, which i doubt theres a solution to that since the cream is just sugar so its bound to disappear when baked I’m definitely saving this one for next year!! Thank you and I look forward to baking your other creations!
Kelly-
So glad to hear you enjoyed the recipe – thanks so much for reporting back. Have a great day.
-Jamie
Made these for my husband’s work on Friday. They turned out perfect. Thanks for the recipe.
I just made these and the eggs melted and disappeared!!!!!! so disappointed :(:( They were frozen