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Mini chocolate cupcakes for Easter (plus win an amazing baking bundle)

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Published on 1 April, 2015
Last Updated on 12 October, 2018 by 232 Comments

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Super easy mini chocolate cupcakes for Easter. Here's how to make these tasty chocolatey treats!
These mini Easter cupcakes are really easy to make and taste deliciously chocolatey.

They’re baked without cases in a mini cupcake pan, then topped with chocolate frosting and some assorted candy before being transferred into pretty little cupcake cases.

Here’s how to make these mini chocolate cupcakes.

Ingredients

  • 200 g (7oz) caster / superfine sugar
  • 175 g (6.2oz) butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 medium free range eggs
  • 200 g (7oz) self-raising flour
  • 40 g (1.4oz) cocoa
  • 1/2 tub ready-made chocolate frosting
  • assorted Easter candy such as chocolate mini eggs

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 200C/390F (180C/355F fan)
  2. Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
  3. Beat in the eggs one by one, then the vanilla until fully combined.
  4. Fold in the flour and cocoa.
  5. Fill the mini cupcake pan so that the batter is about 1/4 inch from the rim of each one.
  6. Bake for 10-12 minutes until just springy on top. Cool on a wire rack.
  7. When cool, pipe a little frosting on top of each one.
  8. Push a piece of candy on top of each one and then transfer each cake into a paper case to serve.

 

Here’s the recipe for mini chocolate cupcakes again in a printable format.

Mini chocolate cupcakes for Easter

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 32 minutes
Servings: 30
Author: Emily Leary
Make these tasty, Easter-themed mini chocolate cupcakes in just a few minutes.
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Ingredients

  • 200 g caster / superfine sugar
  • 175 g butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 medium free range eggs
  • 200 g self-raising flour
  • 40 g cocoa
  • 1/2 tub ready-made chocolate frosting
  • assorted Easter candy such as chocolate mini eggs

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200C/390F (180C/355F fan)
  • Beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
  • Beat in the eggs one by one, then the vanilla until fully combined.
  • Fold in the flour and cocoa.
  • Fill the mini cupcake pan so that the batter is about 1/4 inch from the rim of each one.
  • Bake for 10-12 minutes until just springy on top. Cool on a wire rack.
  • When cool, pipe a little frosting on top of each one.
  • Push a piece of candy on top of each one and then transfer each cake into a paper case to serve.
* Note: nutritional information is estimated, based on publicly available data. Nutrient values may vary from those published.
Course: cakes and bakes, Cookies
Keywords: chocolate, chocolate cupcakes, cupcakes, Easter, mini cupcakes
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These cupcakes were made using a fabulous mini-cupcake pan, high quality piping nozzles and beautiful little cupcake cases by Little Venice Cake Co. They’re all stocked by Docrafts.

The winner of this giveaway was…

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Congratulations!

 

For more bakes to try at home, here are six treats to make for Easter.

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Docrafts provided the baking kits for review and giveaway.

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  5. Fantastic prize! It’s my younger cousin’s birthday coming up so I’d bake her lots of birthday cupcakes!

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  10. I love baking with my son Harvey. So far, apart from lots of mess!, we have made a few cakes that we are quite proud of but this fabulous prize could take our creations to a whole new level!

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  25. cupcakes and i would get my youngest daughter and my grandson to help me decorate them because they love to do that

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  28. I will be making a chocolate fudge cake for my sons 16th birthday. A special cake for a special birthday boy :)

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  34. A birthday cake for my autistic grandson for his 10th birthday. At present, he refuses to be ten and won’t discuss his birthday at all. He doesn’t want to get any older, so a really special cake might help him to come to terms with this inevitable event!

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  58. I have recently turned into baking mad so this would be great. I would make some cupcakes for the kids (probably choccie) and I am trying to make some chai latte ones for me (I am experimenting with different recipes at the moment).

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  59. I would try to make a wedding cake or Birthday cake xx
    Infact i would make all my cakes with these, x

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  75. My fiancee is the baker in the family but I’ll help her make something nice. I love red velvet cupcakes.

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  83. This looks so fantastic :) Butterflies are a major theme amongst my friends and I (we have Papillons “Butterfly dogs”) so I will be making a butterfly shaped cake and decorate it!

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  91. My twins 7 love baking, my 2 year old likes playing with flour! A great prize that would definitely be well used…thanks x

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  99. I’ll be making something with fruit if I win – my nieces have gone to live with my mum long-term and she grows fantastic fruit, so giving the prize to them to use on their first summer harvest at hers will be a great way for them to bond further with her, and get to feel like the food growing in the garden is theirs. :)

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  115. I’ve been wanting to learn piping for ages, so maybe a carrot cake with a piped frosting

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  119. I’d give this to my very talented son who is training to be a chef,hopefully he’d create something wonderful and cakey for his good old mum!

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  129. I’ve made a few cakes, mainly cupcakes and my child’s birthday cakes, nothing spectacular but I like to try.
    Pinterest has inspired me to make some fab bakes … so I’d bake PEANUT BUTTER CUP STUFFED BROWNIE CUPCAKES :P

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  130. This is far too sophisticated to be wasted on my rubbish baking skills so I’d give it to my mum, who can bake just about anything! (Hopefully she’d use it to make me a nice birthday cake!)

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  132. My husband has just been diagnosed with coeliac disease so I am trying to make everything in our house gluten free – I would try to make him a GF sculpted birthday cake in the shape of a Les Paul Guitar (that doesn’t sound easy does it?!? Lol) but if it turns into a crumbly mess it will be cupcakes like every other year LOL

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  133. me and my littlies would bake fairy cakes and lots of fun expermenting with the piping bag and different nozzles to decorate them xxx

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  158. I’d make my daughters birthday cake. She had asked for a chocolate cake covered with sweets

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  160. Well I will definitely be making cupcakes for my sisters 40th and probably for the children’s birthdays, I am sure Lydia will want to do some baking too!

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  177. These cakes look amazing. I think if I won, I’d make some lovely cupcakes and some lovely spring biccies. I would also spend hours practicing my piping skills! Your piping looks so neat! Ray xx @ lukeosaurusandme.blogspot.co.uk

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  179. I’m actually trying to reach myself how to bake but I’m not well equipped. THIS WOULD BE PERFECT.

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  180. Oh My Goodness!,this is absolutely wonderful.I have only recently discovered the joys of baking and my utensils are few and far between .This would be one well used prize x

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  185. Oh Em what a fantastic giveaway. I really need a set of metal cupcake icing decorators this would be so perfect for me. Your cupcakes look absolutely amazing too! Loving the mini eggs on top! Gorgeous.

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  190. I would make some cupcakes for my daughter’s 8th birthday which is coming up! :-) Brill giveaway. X

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  202. these cupcakes are so dainty beautiful and look delicious! , I cant wait to make them
    thank you for sharing.

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  209. I would make some cupcakes and make them all pretty with swirls (which I never usually do as I don’t have any piping bags!) Thank you for the chance to win x

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  210. I would make some cupcakes and make them all pretty with swirls (which I never usually do as I don’t have any piping bags!) Thank you for the chance to win x

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  211. I love the look of the butterfly cutter so I would make some shortbread biscuits and ice them too :) Fab giveaway ♥

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  218. Lots & lots of cakes! I normally just make cupcakes but would be able to up my game & make bigger & better cakes.

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  219. Hard to know where to start, but somewhere on the list, I think I’d (attempt) marzipan fruits with the modelling kit. My grandfather used to make them by hand at Christmas time, and I know even my poor efforts would bring back a lot of memories for my mum and her siblings. I’d probably need until Christmas to practice though!

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  221. I would love to make a varity of iced flowers to make a permanent decoration under a glass dome.

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  228. More of the same! This week we have made scones and ChocBanana cupcakes – the kids love baking and so do I!

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  229. I will be making sponge cakes, fruit cakes, Birthday cakes, cup cakes, scones, Biscuits in fact any cake that takes my fancy.

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  232. I would bake a cake for my parents 45th wedding anniversary! Thank you Emily – this baking prize is fabulous!

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