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Easter cupcakes

Name: Easter cupcakes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 140g light brown soft sugar; 100g self-raising flour; 50g cocoa powder; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 large eggs; 135ml vegetable oil; 4 tbsp milk; 300g icing sugar; 150g unsalted butter softened; 2 tbsp milk; 250g ready-rolled white fondant icing; orange, yellow, pink and black gel food colourings; 2 tbsp cocoa powder; white mini marshmallows (check the label if vegetarian)

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Serves 12

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Prep: 45 mins

Cook: 20 mins

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Get the kids helping out in the kitchen to decorate these cute chocolate Easter cupcakes. Choose from bunnies, chicks and sheep – they're equally delicious

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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140g light brown soft sugar
100g self-raising flour
50g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
2 large eggs
135ml vegetable oil
4 tbsp milk

For the decorations

300g icing sugar
150g unsalted butter

softened
2 tbsp milk
250g ready-rolled white fondant icing
orange, yellow, pink and black gel food colourings
2 tbsp cocoa powder
white mini marshmallows

(check the label if vegetarian)

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Nutrition: Per serving (sponge only)

kcal426
fat25g
saturates9g
carbs46g
sugars39g
fibre1g
protein4g
salt0.2g

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Tip the brown sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder and a pinch of salt into a large bowl. Whisk the eggs, oil and milk in a jug. Slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry, whisking until smooth. Line a 12-hole cupcake tin with paper cases. Divide the mixture between them, then bake for 20 mins until risen. Leave to cool in the tin.
step 2

Meanwhile, make the icing. Beat the icing sugar and butter with an electric whisk until pale and fluffy. Whisk in some of the milk to loosen to a pipeable consistency, if needed.
step 3

For the chick decoration, colour a small piece of fondant orange using a drop of food colouring gel and another small piece black. Colour a few tablespoons of the icing yellow and spoon into a piping bag fitted with a large round nozzle. Pipe a yellow blob in the centre of the cupcake and a smaller one on top. Roll the black fondant into two small balls and place them as eyes. Roll a little cone of orange fondant for the beak. For each foot, roll three small, longer pieces and pinch them together at one end. Push the feet in beneath the body, hiding the pinch.
step 4

For the bunny, beat the cocoa and 1 tbsp milk into a few tablespoons of the icing. Spread over the cupcake. Spoon a few tablespoons of the plain icing into a piping bag fitted with a large round nozzle and pipe a small blob on top. Stick a mini marshmallow on top of that for a tail. For the feet, shape two small pieces of white fondant into ovals and press down to flatten. Colour a small piece of fondant pink and form two balls and six smaller ones. Press the balls into the flattened ovals in a paw pattern. Place the feet on either side of the rabbit’s bottom.
step 5

To make the sheep, colour a piece of fondant black and shape a small piece into an oval. Use a skewer to press nostrils into the bottom end. Pinch two smaller pieces into ears and stick these on using a little water. Roll two small balls of white fondant and two smaller black balls to make eyes. Cover the cake with a layer of plain icing and fix the face in the middle. Surround with mini marshmallows for the woolly coat.

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