Make these homemade chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting. Decorated with Cadbury Creme Eggs and surprise the kids during your Easter celebration with a special little surprise tucked inside.
Easter is a time to celebrate with special treats. If you love the sweet and gooey Cadbury Egg candy that is only available during the spring make a batch of these homemade chocolate cupcakes filled with mini Cadbury Eggs and decorated for Easter.
Cadbury Egg Cupcake Recipe
Cute and yummy Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes are very easy to make.
Bake chocolate cupcakes, stuff a mini Cadbury Creme Egg inside, frost said cupcake with chocolate frosting, top with some green sprinkles (grass) and stick another mini Cadbury Creme Egg on top.
How to make Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
Chocolate Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup boiling water
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup butter
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
Chocolate Cupcake Directions
1. Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together into a bowl.Set aside.
2. Add the cocoa to the boiling water and mix until all lumps have dissolved.Set aside.
3. In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar.
4. Add the egg and vanilla to the bowl with the creamed butter and sugar.
5. Beat on high for about 2 minutes.
6. Add half the dry ingredients and half the cocoa mixture to the bowl and beat for about 1 minute.
7. Add the remaining dry ingredients and cocoa mixture to the bowl and beat for 2 minutes on high.
8. Fill the cupcake wells ¾ full with batter.
9. Bake in a preheated 350 degrees oven or (325-degree oven for dark pans) for 20-24 minutes or until the top of a cupcake springs back when touched.
10. Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup softened butter
- 2 ¾ cups powdered sugar
- ¾ unsweetened cocoa powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting Directions
1. Cream the softened butter in a large bowl until smooth and fluffy.
2. Sift the powdered sugar and cocoa together into a bowl. Add the salt.
3. Gradually add the powdered sugar to the mixer bowl and beat on low until mixed in.
4. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat for 3 minutes, scraping the bowl occasionally.
5. Refrigerate until serving.
How to assemble Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
Ingredients needed to make chocolate Cadbury Egg cupcakes. Scroll down to the recipe card for the full recipe amounts and directions.
- 12 Chocolate Cupcakes
- Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting or canned chocolate frosting
- 24 Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs
- 2 Wilton 12 inch decorating bags or plastic baggies with the corner snipped off.
- 1 large closed star frosting tip if you are using decorating bags.
- Green Sprinkles or green candy "grass".
Directions
- Prepare the first decorating bag by fitting it with a large closed star tip. Set aside.
- Fill the second decorating bag with about ¼ cup of the Chocolate Butter Cream frosting and snip off the point of the bag.
- Fill the remaining decorating bag that you fitted with the star tip with the remaining frosting.
- Twist and secure the top of the bag tightly with a rubber band.
- Cut a hole in the center of each cupcake large enough to hold a Mini Cadbury Creme Egg.
- Set each piece of cake that you have removed next to the cupcake you cut it from.
- Unwrap 12 Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs.
- In the bottom of the hole you cut out into each cupcake place a dot of frosting from the small decorator bag.
- Push one mini Cadbury Creme Egg into each hole in the cupcake center.
- Squeeze another small dot of frosting on top of each Cadbury Creme Egg.
- Pick up the cap of cake you previously removed and trim some of the cake off the bottom, leaving a flat cap. Fit it into the hole and press gently but firmly down to secure it to the frosting you placed on the candy egg.
- Repeat with all the cupcakes.
- Unwrap the remaining 12 mini Cadbury Creme Eggs.
- Using the decorator bag fitting with the star tip frost each cupcake by going around the edge of the cupcake and ending in the center.
- Add some green sprinkles to the center of each cupcake.
- Place a mini Cadbury Creme Egg in the center of each bupcake.
- Refrigerate the cupcakes before serving to allow the frosting to stiffen.
- Makes 12 cupcakes.
Recipe FAQS
Frequently asked questions about Cadbury Eggs.
A chocolate "egg" surrounds a gooey white and yellow creme filling center that looks like the inside of an egg.
No, you can not buy Cadbury eggs all year. Cadbury Creme Eggs are a seasonal treat only available for a few months around Easter.
If you love Cadbury Eggs and want to enjoy them after the Easter holiday you can freeze them. Remove the Cadbury Eggs from the carboard box if they came in one. Leave the wrapper on them and place the eggs in an airtight freezer container. Place the container in the freezer and enjoy a Creme Egg anytime you like.
Expert Recipe Tips
Expert recipe tips that will help you make the best Easter Cadbury cupcakes.
- I made homemade chocolate cupcakes but you can use a box of your favorite chocolate cake mix.
- If you are using a boxed cake mix instead of making homemade chocolate cupcakes at least make the butter cream frosting. Homemade frosting tastes so much better than store bought.
- I also made homemade Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting but you can use store bought canned chocolate frosting. A few words about homemade Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting. MAKE IT! Homemade chocolate buttercream frosting is awesome.
- Homemade Frosting substitution ideas: You could use canned green frosting and skip the sprinkles altogether. You can use store bought canned chocolate frosting if you are short on time.
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Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
Equipment
- Wilton 12 inch piping bags
- Large Closed Star Piping Tip
- Cupcake Pan
- Cupcake Papers
Ingredients
Homemade Chocolate Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup boiling water
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup butter
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large large egg
Homemade Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup softened butter
- 2 ¾ cups powdered sugar
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Decorating Ingredients
- 24 Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs (unwrapped)
- Green Sprinkles
Instructions
Homemade Chocolate Cupcake Directions
- Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together into a bowl.Set aside.
- Add the cocoa to the boiling water and mix until all lumps have dissolved. Set aside.
- In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the egg and vanilla to the bowl with the creamed butter and sugar.
- Beat on high for about 2 minutes.
- Add half the dry ingredients and half the cocoa mixture to the bowl and beat for about 1 minute.
- Add the remaining dry ingredients and cocoa mixture to the bowl and beat for 2 minutes on high.
- Fill the cupcake wells ¾ full with batter.
- Bake in a preheated 350 F. degrees oven or (325-degree oven for dark pans) for 20-24 minutes or until the top of a cupcake springs back when touched.
- Allow cupcakes to cool completely before frosting.
Homemade Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting Directions
- Cream the softened butter in a large bowl until smooth and fluffy.
- Sift the powdered sugar and cocoa together into a bowl. Add the salt.
- Gradually add the powdered sugar to the mixer bowl and beat on low until mixed in.
- Increase the speed to medium high and beat for 3 minutes, scraping the bowl occasionally.
- Refrigerate until serving.
How to assemble and Decorate Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
- Fill one piping bag with about ¼ cup of the Chocolate Butter Cream frosting and snip off the point of the bag.
- Slide the star tip to the bottom of the second piping bag and fill with the remaining frosting. Set aside.
- Twist to close both of the bags tightly and secure with a rubber band.
- Remove the top center of each cupcake by cutting a hole large enough to hold a Mini Cadbury Creme Egg. Save the piece of cupcake you removed. Place it next to the cupcake you removed it from.
- Unwrap 12 Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs.
- Squeeze a small amount of frosting In the bottom of the hole you cut out in each cupcake with the piping bag without the star tip.
- Push one unwrapped mini Cadbury Creme Egg into each hole in the cupcake center.
- Squeeze another small dot of frosting on top of each Cadbury Creme Egg.
- Pick up the piece of cake you removed earlier and trim some of the cake off the bottom, leaving a flat cap. Fit it into the hole and press gently but firmly down to secure it to the frosting you placed on top of the candy egg.
- Repeat with the remaining cupcakes.
- Unwrap the remaining 12 mini Cadbury Creme Eggs.
- Using the piping bag fitting with the star tip frost each cupcake by going around the edge of the cupcake and ending in the center.
- Add some green sprinkles to the center of each cupcake.
- Push a mini Cadbury Creme Egg in the center of each cupcake.
- Refrigerate the cupcakes before serving to allow the frosting to stiffen.
- Makes 12 cupcakes.
Recipe Expert Tips
- I made homemade chocolate cupcakes but you can use a box of your favorite chocolate cake mix.
- If you are using a boxed cake mix instead of making homemade chocolate cupcakes at least make the butter cream frosting. Homemade frosting tastes so much better than store bought.
- I also made homemade Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting but you can use store bought canned chocolate frosting. A few words about homemade Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting. MAKE IT! Homemade chocolate buttercream frosting is awesome.
- Homemade Frosting substitution ideas: You could use canned green frosting and skip the sprinkles altogether. You can use store bought canned chocolate frosting if you are short on time.
Nutrition
Veena Azmanov
I am in love with these Arlene. I adore the nest you created below each cupcake. I have not see any Cadbury creme eggs here. We don't get there here at all. My kids would adore these.
Arlene Mobley
Veena
Thanks!
Sarah @ TheFitCookie
I love how you set up the cupcakes in nests, everything looks almost too pretty to eat!
Arlene Mobley
Sarah
Thank you so much!
Julia
These are absolutely adorable! I love the little nests for the cupcakes. Are you going to believe me when I say I never had creme eggs before??
Arlene Mobley
Julia thank you so much! Do they even sell them over there where you live? Cadbury Eggs are all the rage here in the US during Easter.
Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy
Cadbury Creme Eggs have been a favourite of my kids for years. Putting them on these delicious cupcakes make them the perfect Easter dessert.