Chocolate Easter Cakes
chocolate easter cupcake recipe
Chocolate Easter Cakes
Recipe Type: Cakes & Baking
Cuisine: British
Author: Caroline Artiss
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 12
These cakes are more like rich chocolate muffins. They are not as fluffy as sponge cake but they have a deeper chocolate flavour. Perfect for all you chocoholic’s.
Ingredients
- Cupcakes:
- 200g chocolate chips
- 200g/ 1-½ cups self raising flour
- 200g / 1 cup caster sugar
- 6 tbsp / ¾ cup cocoa powder
- 150 ml / ¾ cup sunflower oil
- 2 large eggs
- 280 ml / 1 cup sour cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Icing / frosting:
- 200g soft unsalted butter
- 350g / 3 cups icing sugar
- 50g / 3/5 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp hot water
- 100g melted chocolate
- Decorate:
- Flake bar crumbled to decorate
- Mini eggs to decorate
Instructions
- This is a very easy recipe
- Preheat oven 180c /350f / gas4
- Simply mix all the cake ingredients together apart from the chocolate chips in a big bowl until smooth
- Then mix in the chocolate chips
- Then fill the cupcake cases and pop in the oven for 15 – 20 minutes
- To test if they are cooked poke a small skewer in the centre of the cake and if it comes out clean they are done
- Or you can press it gently with your finger and if it bounces back it is cooked
- Leave to cool
- For the icing, sieve the icing sugar and cocoa powder into a large bowl
- Beat in the butter, vanilla, cooled melted chocolate and hot water
- Beat until smooth
- When cakes are cool, spread the icing on top of the cakes
- If you have a piping bag they will look nicer but no problem if you don’t
- Sprinkle the flake on top then put 3 mini eggs on to look like a birds nest
Notes
Give yourself a big pat on the back for making the effort to make such lovely cakes for Easter.
