Mini Egg Explosion Cupcakes
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Recipe type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
Vanilla cupcake
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ½ cup canola oil
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1⅓ cups all purpose flour
  • ¾ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 2 small packages mini eggs (78g)
Vanilla Buttercream Icing
  • 1 cup butter at room temperature
  • 3½ cups icing sugar
  • 1½ tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 small packages mini eggs (78g)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 and line your muffin pan with cupcake liners.
  2. Whisk milk and vinegar and set aside for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, use the flat end of a spoon or measuring cup to crush the mini eggs inside the bag. I find a metal measuring cup works best as it has a solid, flat base.
  3. Add all your wet ingredients to the milk mixture and whisk well to combine. Gently fold your dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Add your crushed mini eggs and mix until thoroughly combined and there are no large lumps.
  4. Fill your cupcake liners ⅔ full. Place in oven and bake for 18-20 minutes. Let it cool for a few minutes then transfer onto a cooling rack. Let it cool completely before icing.
  5. While the cupcakes are baking or cooling you can make the icing. Like above, crush the mini eggs in their bags and set aside.
  6. Cream the butter thoroughly by hand, with a hand blender or a stand mixer.
  7. /2 cup at a time, add 1½ cups of icing sugar.
  8. Add vanilla extract, mix, then continue to add the rest of the icing sugar in ½ cup batches.
  9. If it becomes too stiff, you can add a teaspoon of milk to thin it out. If it’s too thin, add more icing sugar until you achieve your desired consistency
  10. Spread your vanilla icing onto your cupcake with a knife.
  11. Place the crushed mini eggs onto a plate, then 'dunk' the iced cupcake into the crushed mini eggs to cover the icing.
Recipe by Squirrelly Minds at http://squirrellyminds.com/2014/04/03/eat-mini-egg-explosion-cupcakes/