VIDEORECIPE Tasty and easy homemade Easter Cupcakes
This easy recipe teaches how to make the best homemade Easter Cupcakes. Don't miss it!
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 Cup self-rising flour
- 2⁄3 Cup cocoa
- 11⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2⁄3 Cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 145 g butter at room temperature
- 2⁄3 Cup sugar
- 1⁄3 Cup muscovado sugar
- 2 egg
Frosting
- 170 g butter
- 0.13 teaspoon salt
- 21⁄2 cups sifted icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 170 g melted bittersweet chocolate
- 2 tablespoon milk
Garnish
- 150 g milk chocolate topping for nests
- 3 cups coconut
- Green colouring gel
- Coffee colouring gel
- 1⁄4 Cup water
- Chocolate eggs
- Chocolate bunnies
- Edible flowers
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Directions
Mix the flour, cocoa, royal icing, baking soda and salt in a bowl and set aside.
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Mix the buttermilk with the vanilla.
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Beat the butter with the two sugars until creamy. Add the eggs one by one. Alternate the dry and liquid ingredients, beating just enough to bring the mixture together.
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Pour the mixture into the baking tins and bake in a preheated oven to 180°C for 18 to 20 minutes.
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When baking is over, remove from the tin, unmould and leave to cool.
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For making the frosting, beat the butter with the salt until stiff. Gradually add the sifted icing sugar. Then, add the vanilla and beat for 2 to 3 minutes to fluff the mixture.
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Add the cooled, melted chocolate and beat until well incorporated. Then, add the milk and stir. Use this frosting to cover the cupcakes.
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For the decoration, melt the couverture chocolate, pour it into a piping bag and trace some nests in a semi-sphere mould. Let the chocolate dry completely.
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Dye 1/4 cup of water with green and brown colouring and pour this water over the coconut. Stir it very well until the coconut has an even colour. Let it dry on a tray.
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Decorate the cupcakes with some coconut, chocolate bunnies, nests, Easter eggs and flowers. Enjoy!
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