For the chocolate lovers, the cupcake lovers and the Easter lovers these are for you, a soft gooey chocolate cupcake with the cutest Maltesers bunny on top. And how did I get the frosting to look like grass? With a Wilton #233 piping nozzle! I picked mine up at hobby craft for £1.50 which is damn good bargain as it makes the cupcakes look professional and it really does look like the bunny is sat in a patch of grass. Like the golden egg cupcakes, these make the perfect Easter treat and you could even make these as a gift for someone instead of an Easter Egg! Just as chocolatey but far more personal.
Just on a side note, I would really recommended buying some different piping nozzles as you can create so many different styles and designs with them and you don't have to do any work as the nozzle does it for you.
Maltesers Bunny Cupcakes
(Makes 6)
100g Caster Sugar
70g Self Raising Flour
30g Coco Powder
1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
1/2 Tsp Bi-carbonate of Soda
1 Egg
4 Tbsp Milk
2 Tbsp Vegetable Oil
1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
4 Tbsp Cooled Coffee
250g Ready Made Vanilla Frosting
Green Food Gel or Colouring
6 Maltersers Bunnies
Flower Sprinkles
Preheat the oven to 170C, Gas Mark 5. Line a cupcake tray with 6 paper cases.
Place all of the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl and whisk until well combined. In a jug place all of the wet ingredients together and whisk. Pour into the dry ingredients and beat together until smooth and lump free.
As this is a wet batter pour the mixture into a clean jug and then pour equally into the preprepared cupcake cases. Place in the oven for 20 minutes until they are soft to touch and that a skewer comes out clean. Leave in the tin to cool for five minutes before transferring onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
Place the vanilla frosting inside a small mixing bowl, then add enough food gel or colouring to create a grass like colour. Place a Wilton #233 piping tip inside a piping bag and place the frosting inside. Pipe the frosting on top of the cupcake creating a patch of grass for your bunny to sit on, covering the whole top of the cupcake. Then place a bunny on top and secure by piping some frosting at the back of the bunny to keep in place. Sprinkle over a few flower sprinkles on the grass to finish of the look.
Then look and admire what you have created because they look cute as F...
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