Cadbury’s Creme Egg Cupcakes Recipe – The best Easter bake! My favourite recipe along with 5 must know TOP TIPS for making the perfect Creme Egg Cupcake. Light and fluffy chocolate cupcakes, filled with a surprise Easter treat and topped with swirled buttercream icing.
Creme eggs are a total “absence makes the heart grow fonder” for me. I don’t actually love them or even like them for 10 months of the year. What’s there to love? Sickly sweet, fondanty filling. Meh.
Then, in March every year. I cannot stop myself from compulsively buying them whenever I see them (which is a lot). Which of course led to my No Bake Creme Egg Cheesecake Recipe. Creme Egg Cupcakes were inevitable!
So, this crazed confectionery hoarding goes on until Easter Sunday, when I look at them and think, “what was I thinking?!”
But love them or loathe them, Creme Egg Cupcakes are genius. Done right, they add a pocket of gooey, chocolatey goodness inside a parcel your cake.
They somehow seem less less eye-wateringly sweet when they are inside a cupcake (I know, that makes no sense to me either but I promise it’s true). They melt just enough to add a kind of truffle inside the cake.
So, whether you love Creme Eggs or loathe them or if you have a short term love affair with them like I do. Try them in a Creme Egg Cupcake, it’s the best place for them.
Here are my tips for making perfect Creme Egg Cupcakes every time:
- When you putting whole Creme Eggs into the cupcakes (or any other bake) if you can try to make sure they are completely covered they will survive much better. If they aren’t protected by batter, they melt too quickly and collapse.
- Always, always freeze your eggs before adding to the batter. Overnight is best if you have the time. I just keep some, in their wrapping, in the freezer at Easter time ready for use whenever the urge takes me.
- In cupcakes, lay the mini eggs on their side, rather than pointing up. It means they they wobble about less when being put into the oven and they are also easier to cover with the batter.
- Make sure that you’re using a thick batter (like this one) to hold the eggs in place. Some recipes that are more like a muffin mixture, are too runny to hold the eggs where they need to be.
- Try popping cut up eggs on top of your bakes for the last 10 minutes of cooking for a different effect. (Don’t freeze them for this as you won’t be able to cut them). They have a very different texture when baked like that, but also look meltingly good.
My top buys to use in the PERFECT Creme Egg Cupcakes:
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How to make the PERFECT Creme Egg Cupcakes:
Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 150 g Caster Sugar
- 150 g Unsalted butter softened
- 3 Free range eggs medium size
- 1 Tsp vanilla extract
- 120 g Self-raising flour
- 30 g Good quality cocoa like Green & Blacks
- 12 Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs
For the icing:
- 175 g Unsalted butter
- 350 g Icing sugar
- Egg yellow gel food colouring
- 75 g Dark chocolate
You'll also need:
- 12 x Brown muffin cases
- 2 D Piping nozzle
- 2 x Disposable piping bags
Instructions
- Freeze your mini Creme Eggs for a couple of hours, or overnight.
- Pre-heat your oven to 180C.
- Beat the caster sugar and butter until light and pale.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract, don't worry if the mixture begins to look a little curdled.
- Mix in the flour and cocoa. If you've been using a mixer, do this bit by hand with a spoon or spatula.
- Put a spoonful of batter into each muffin case, in a muffin tray.
- Unwrap your Creme Eggs and place one, laying on it's side, in the middle of each muffin case, on top of the batter.
- Top with the rest of the batter and with a spoon, gentle move the batter in the cases, so that you can't see any of the frozen eggs and they are totally covered with batter.
- Bake for about 20 minutes or until they are slightly bouncy to the touch. You might need to adjust the time by 2 – 3 minutes either way depending on your oven.
- Meanwhile make your icing, beat your butter until it’s pale, light and fluffy.
- Beat in your icing sugar followed by a teaspoon or two of boiling water to soften and lighten the texture of the buttercream.
- Split the icing between two bowls and colour one using your Egg Yellow colour. Use just the tip of a knife and add more colouring as you go until you get the shade you fancy.
- When your cupcakes are completely cold, put your 2D nozzle into a piping bag, then spoon in your white buttercream and your yellow icing. Spoon them in next to each other, so one goes down one side of the bag and the other down the other side.
- Have a little practise squeeze until you get a two tone icing coming through, then pipe swirls onto your cakes.
- Melt your chocolate and allow to cool. Pop into a disposable piping bag, snip 2 - 3mm off the end of the bag and use it to drizzle your cooled chocolate in squiggles over the top.
Nutrition
Dora says
Holy smoley!! Your marbled icing is absolutely GORGEOUS. I just had to comment on them. Your cupcakes look absolutely phenomenal. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Sarah Barnes says
Thanks so much for your lovely comment Dora 🙂
Julie's Family Kitchen says
Oh wow! These are naughty but very nice.
Ana says
Just wondering… Was eating some of those Toffeefee things the other day and thought of you and your creme egg cakes. Have you every tried cakes with those in, or do you think the toffee shell would be too lumpy in the sponge?
Echo says
But now creme eggs don’t have dairy milk coating! Think it’ll still be great? With that much chocolatey goodness around it, probably so. 🙂
Sarah Barnes says
Thank you! Hope you enjoy it 🙂
Tara Worthing says
I was wondering instead of the cream eggs they now have caramel too. How do you think that would work out if I use your same method of freezing them first? Thanks Tara Worthing
Sarah Barnes says
Hi Tara, yes, I’ve actually made that this weekend! I’ll share it over the next few weeks 🙂
Ian @Bubbleless says
I’m not sure if creme eggs would be the same if they were avaliable all year, somehow Christmas to Easter makes them more appealing. I did however manage to make a very passable version, which have the added bonus that you can still use Dairy milk and not whatever the recipe has changed to 🙂
Corina says
ooooh! These are so naughty. They look great though.
Chris says
Hi,
Made these last week and were loved by everyone but for some reason only the inner part of the egg had melted (not the outside though!) I wonder if it was because my cakes needed a couple more minutesto be cooked? Any ideas?
Also one or two (had made double the amount!) had the egg stuck to the bottom of the case- I guess because not enough cake batter was put on the bottom of the case before adding the egg?
Thanks so much for the recipe – got a feeling I am going to be making a lot of them (husband has just come through the door with 4 packets of mini eggs grinning – not knowing I already have a load already secretly stashed away;)
Just would like to get them perfect….
Chris
Sarah Barnes says
Hi Chris, so pleased you like the recipe. Were the eggs well frozen? As you say, a touch more batter on the base (even if you end up making bigger but fewer cakes I sometimes think that’s a good way to go..) If the eggs were accidentally touching the base inside the cake case, I think maybe a spot on the melts and the inside comes out. I know what you mean and it happens to me occasionally too. Hope next time is more successful. x
Chris says
Thanks for the reply Sarah – the next batch were much better. I followed your advice and put slightly more mix on the base before adding the egg and also took them out of he oven a little earlier! They went down a storm 🙂
Thanks again and keep the wonderful recipes coming
Chris x
Californian Mum in London says
I’m going to give these a go on Sunday! Hmm, creme eggs. Definitely worth breaking my diet for these bad boys!
Cassidy says
Hello, I was wondering if you could convert the ingredients to cups. For example: How much is 150 grams of sugar in cups?
I am having the worst time trying to convert because the measurements don’t add up and I don’t want to mess these up!
Sarah Barnes says
Hi Cassidy, you’d just need to google to find a conversion site. They are very easy to use 🙂
Douglas Boyle says
I also reccomend using wieght (mass) over volume when baking so finding a conversion from grams to ounces would be ideal (or a scale that does both)
Ruth says
Thank u so much for the recipe. I used to enter into our Easter bake off competition at work and I won in the Best Use Of Chocolate category. Will definitely make these a part of my Easter tradition from now on.
Heather Forget says
These look amazing! I was wondering if they freeze well (iced or not) or if it ruins the mini egg inside? Trying to think of a way to make in advance to keep fresh. Any ideas? Do you store at room temp in an airtight container? Thank you so much!
Sarah Barnes says
Hi Heather, I’ve never frozen them before, but I would’ve thought they would be fine. Sometimes the cases can come away from the cakes as cupcakes defrost, but it won’t affect the taste. Yes, if not freezing store in an airtight container (I find a tin better than plastic, which can make them ‘sweat’ a bit). Enjoy!
Heather Forget says
Thank you! I will try a tin next time when storing at room temp. I plan to make a test batch next week and will try freezing a few and then see how the thaw out and taste. I will reply here afterward and let you know how it went. Have a great day!
Una Alsop says
That is an amazing cupcake recipe that will definitely come in handy for this year! I plan to cook a lot more and want my family to try different food. Thanks for sharing this post. I love it.
Jacqueline Rousseau says
Hello! I just wanted to reach out because I am very armature baker, and I need some more expert advice.
I need to make 48 of these cakes, but when I multiply all the amounts by 4, I get extraordinary amounts.
600 grams of butter is nearly 6 sticks!
A whole dozen eggs?!
In my experience, most 24 cake recipes have only 2 or 3 eggs, and 1 to 2 sticks of butter. It almost feels like something is wrong in the conversion with this recipe…
Recently I doubled a recipe for 24 cakes (4 sticks of butter, 4 eggs) and ended up with enough leftover batter to make 48 more cakes, so I am not totally convinced that merely doubling the ingredient amounts will have the desired result. And in this case, quadrupling it. (12 whole eggs in one recipe though?!)
Anyway, do you think I should just go ahead and multiply everything by 4? Or is there another conversion method I’m missing?
Sarah Barnes says
Hi Jacqueline, yes, but you’d only be able to make as much batter as you have muffin tins for! So you’d need 4 muffin trays to make 48 at once?
Sally Biddington says
Hi there,
Are mini Creme Eggs definitely used? Not full sized?