With Easter just a couple of days away, I thought I’d post a super cute and simple idea for Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes. I’m a sucker for anything miniaturized, so when I laid my eyes upon mini Cadbury Creme Eggs at Target I immediately threw them into my cart. At that moment I was unsure if I was going simply consume them until I got a stomach ache or create an Easter themed dessert.
After tossing around a few ideas, I decided to make cupcakes. I knew I wanted to bake mini egg into the center, because seriously can it get any better than a Cadbury Egg baked into a cupcake? I think not. Then I experienced a brief moment of brilliance and thought it would be pretty darn adorable and festive to pipe the frosting to mimic an egg.
I don’t really have a recipe for you, this is just more of an method on how to execute the idea.
More Easter Inspiration:
Pavlova with Raspberries and Lemon Curd from Katie of Good Life Eats
Marshmallow Nests from Jaime of Sophistimom
Cascaroñes from Amber of Bluebonnets and Brownies
Nested Easter Egg Cupcakes from Naomi of Bakers Royale
Kettle Krispies Treat Eggs from Kristen of Dine and Dish
Simple Easter Cupcakes from Aimee of Simple Bites
April 21st, 2011
Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
Yield: 24 cupcakes
Ingredients:
24 paper cupcake liners
Batter for 24 cupcakes. Box mix works fine or simply use your favorite chocolate cupcake recipe, it’s your call.
48 Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs (24 frozen) You’ll use the frozen ones inside the cupcake batter. Freezing the eggs keeps them from completely vanishing inside the baked cake.
1 batch of buttercream frosting
yellow dye
Large Round piping tip or snip the end off of a piping bag.
Directions:
1. Scoop batter into paper liner ⅔ of the way full. Place one frozen Mini Cadbury Creme Egg into the middle of each cupcake. Use a spatula to spread the batter over the egg.
2. Bake according to the recipe you are using. Allow cupcakes to cool completely.
3. While your cupcakes are cooking, make your buttercream. My favorite recipe can be found within this Fundamentals Buttercream Frosting Post.
4. Remove about 1 cup of buttercream from the mixing bowl and dye it yellow.
5. Assemble your piping bag fitted with a large tip and pipe a large circle around the perimeter of the cupcake.
6. Fill in the center of the circle with the yellow buttercream and top with a Mini Cadbury Cream Egg.
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you are so dang talented…how cool is this idea….
I think I remember you mentioning in a previous post that you have a favorite go-to chocolate cupcake recipe. If that’s true, can you tell me where to find it?! I’ve been searching but haven’t seen it yet. I was looking at using the one from the Chambord cupcakes but that one calls for coffee and wasn’t sure how that would work with this recipe. Thoughts?
I love these! They’re so cute. I actually caved the other day and had a Cadbury Egg.
Thank you for the link!
LOVE LOVE LOVE these. so cute! Great design.
Cadbury Cream Eggs are my favorite! I have to hide them when I buy them so nobody else in the house knows that I have them – otherwise I don’t get any. These are ridiculously cute!
Hate to say it, but I think I am actually drooling. Nomnomnom…
SO CUTE! I love the way you did the frosting. I’ve seen come with yellow and white swirled, but I really like the way you did it.
So fun and festive! Love these!
I’ve never had a cadburry egg, but the mini ones may be worth a try! These cupcakes are super cute, Jamie! Thanks for the link.
You are so smart! These look just perfect. Thank you for including my cupcakes and have a wonderful Easter weekend!
my goodness this looks tasty!!!
Oh my…just when I thought Cadbury eggs couldn’t get any better!!!!
I will make these this weekend. Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh my, these are so ridiculously cute! Great photos
Makes me hungry just looking at them!!!
I have to admit anything miniature is tempting! Super cute!
These are adorable! I know what i’m making for Easter this year…it just doesn’t get any better than chocolate eggs and cupcakes.
Ths cadbury creme egg center is what sells me here. Yum!
Jamie,
I just found your blog and I am so very glad I did. It is wonderful and I can’t wait to try your recipes. Beautiful work!
Oh, and I have a very bad addiction to Cadbury Creme Eggs, so it’s a good thing they are only for sale a few months out of the year.
you make the most gorgeous cupcakes!
Sinfully delicious looking cupcake… The Creme egg inside is a definite surprise…
LOVE cadbury creme eggs…I give up sweets every year for Lent and a creme egg is always the first thing I eat easter morning!
These are fantastic! I love the icing on top
thx for sharing!
Soooo adorable! I too am a sucker for mini!
These are so creative and cute! I love anything mini
Whoa these look way good!
You are amazing! I gotta go get some eggs before they’re all gone!!
Wow…these are adorable!!! I absolutely love cadbury eggs!!! I’m making these tonight for sure, thanks for the great idea.
such a cute idea!! Love it
This is genius. I am totally going to make these for Easter!
LOVE these! almost too cute to eat! (almost)
How cute are these?! Love, love, love some more.
Absolutely adorable!
Another amazing idea. Seriously how do you find the time to come up with and create these awesome creations?
These are just too creative and cute, I love them and thank you so much for sharing this fabulous idea !
omg i LOVE it. Where do you find baby eggs? I need to know. I REALLY need to know
Tina-
I found them at Target.
-Jamie
Jamie – you are a baking superstar! I just love the “egg” icing and what a fun surprise to find a little egg baked inside the cupcake. Love. Love. Love.
When I saw the photo of this on FG, I told myself I definitely have to check out that voluptous frosting! Very clever of you to make this to look like an egg.
Made these today and they’re great! I ended up using yellow cake mix and a white packaged frosting due to time constraints, but they turned out well still.
Thanks for the fabulous idea–you’re very talented!
how adorable, i love it!!!
I just finished making these. Thank you for the inspiration! I used a caramel cake mix instead of chocolate and they turned out magnificent!
Congratulations on Top9 at FoodBuzz. I’m in there with you with cupcakes too! Yours are beautiful.
I made these over the weekend and they turned out pretty good, but your frosting looks better! What tip did you use?
How fun! Thank you for sharing. I linked to this on my blog today. Hope that’s okay!
Blessings,
Holly
http://hallelujahsbyholly.blogspot.com/2011/04/beyond-cadbury-egg.html
I wish I had seen these before Easter! How adorable!
Love the tip for freezing the eggs before baking! I might test this with other gooey chocolates. After seeing my daughter experience her first Creme Egg this Easter, I think I might just have to file this idea away for next year. Beautiful photography too.
oh i am putting these on my list of things to make for next year, wow they look great!!
They look perfect and delicious! Congratulations! You are an artist.
This is the most fantastic cupcake idea I have ever seen in my entire life
I really like your idea for these easter cupcakes, I wrote a little post about them, linking back to you, Hope to inspire my dutch followers
Thanks for sharing.
http://www.taartencake.com/paas-cupcake-met-eitje/
ireally liked yhe cadburry egg iwasgoing to make some for my daugherd who loves caburry but could print and also could not find how to do the frosting
Vera-
Thanks for stopping by. There is a link to the buttercream that I used within the ingredient list. You can print the recipes from My Baking Addiction my hitting the “print recipe” button within each post. Hope this helps.
-Jamie
So cute! I always look forward to the time of year when Cadbury eggs start to appear.
These are so cute! Makes me wish I could still eat Cadbury eggs…unfortunately Hershey took them away from me last year by slapping their peanut/nut warning on them. I may have to make these cupcakes though…I bet they are even better than the candies anyway!
My fave chocolate cake recipe has a runny batter…will the egg stay in the middle even if the batter is runny? Thanks so much for sharing!
Katrina-
I used a really thick cake batter for this recipe, I don’t think the egg will stay suspended in a thinner batter.
-Jamie
Hi Jamie
Can you please tell the cupcake recipe you used? Thanks!
Faye-
I used this recipe – but you can pretty much use whatever recipe is your favorite. Thanks for stopping by!
-Jamie
I’ve just been to Target and Kroger, and can’t find them!
Anyone know if any mass-retailers are selling them this year? I can only find 4 on Amazon. Anyone who onows, feel free to email me at awkennon (at) hotmail.com. Thanks a million!
Anne-
I just picked some up at Target this afternoon, I have also seen them at my local grocery store (Kroger). Sorry you are having such a hard time finding them.
-Jamie
GAH! Ok, I’ll maybe try a different Target…I know they sometimes carry different products at different stores, even within the same town. I’m dying here, since I’ve had my heart set on these darn cupcakes for weeks now!
Sorry I replied down below…I found mine at Walmart…by the Easter baskets and grass..not by the candy. Hope that helps.
I found some at CVS yesterday. SO expensive, though!
I know they won’t be as cute, but would the more solid chocolate eggs work, too? Like the Butterfinger eggs or the cookie & cream eggs?
I tried these tonight…froze the mini eggs for a few hours and all….and they still disappeared during baking, I just have chocolate cupcakes with a crunchy carmalized base.
What did I do wrong??
Heather – the same thing happened to me
I made these tonight and the same thing happened to me! But my cupcakes arent just chocolate – the chocolate from the egg seems to have melted making the middles really soft and gooey (not in a good way), and the creme part has hardened on the bottom.
I don’t know what went wrong!
Did you use gel or liquid food coloring for the yellow part?
Found mine at Walmart…over by the Easter baskets..not by the candy.
Wow! I just finished making these, they are great. I didn’t put the eggs on top, and my yellow frosting was not quite the right color, but these are a hit!!!! Great.
I just made these and the eggs melted and disappeared!!!!!! so disappointed
:( They were frozen
Made these for my husband’s work on Friday. They turned out perfect. Thanks for the recipe.
I made these for Easter this year. I used your box recipe but wasn’t sure if I was supposed to add additional pudding since the box recipe said it had pudding in it. SO…I threw in a couple scoops of a pudding snack pack! These turned out unbelievable!! Everyone kept saying how professional they looked and tasted! The only thing slightly negative – the frozen egg in the middle was yummy and gooey but the cream dissipated a bit, which i doubt theres a solution to that since the cream is just sugar so its bound to disappear when baked I’m definitely saving this one for next year!! Thank you and I look forward to baking your other creations!
Kelly-
So glad to hear you enjoyed the recipe – thanks so much for reporting back. Have a great day.
-Jamie
As I am addicted to Cadbury Creme Eggs I am close to hyperventilate because of these cupcakes!!!!
Love your adorable idea! Look at your frosting, made me so tempting and want to bite it.
Good job!
I’m a sucker for miniatures too. I’ve got mini Oreos and mini Jammie Dodgers in the cupboard that need to adorn a cupcake. These are so cute. I too love Creme Eggs and really want to make these.
Has anyone substituted the mini eggs for the regular size ones in the batter?
I attempted this genius idea last night but I need some advice, how long did you freeze the eggs for? And how do you stop them from sticking to the cupcake cases? Cause although mine tasted great, you would take the cupcake out of the case and the creme egg would be stuck to the case? Thanks in advance
Shannon-
I froze them overnight. I am sorry you had issues with them sticking to the wrappers. Thanks for stopping by.
-Jamie
That icing is so cute! I’d settled on my Easter bake using mini eggs, but now I’m not so sure these look amazing.
This looks seriously amazing, I have to go to target to find those mini eggs!
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