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Chocolate Easter Cupcakes with Mini Egg Nests

April 2, 2015 by Sarah Trivuncic 2 Comments

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A sticky chocolate Easter cupcakes with mini egg nests recipe originally made in collaboration with Stork. 

Chocolate Easter Cupcakes with Mini Egg Nests

It seems the cupcake is the perfect shape and size for mini Easter nests and I have seen a few versions around this week. Some have chocolate buttercream swirls, others rice pops but this version uses cornflakes, golden syrup, drinking chocolate and Stork.

I was a little apprehensive that without any actual chocolate that these Easter nests would not solidify on top of the cupcakes. Making these in a hurry before I swoop off to Paris I spooned the sticky chocolate covered flakes onto a sheet of non stick parchment paper in piles. This helped the mixture cool down and as I formed little nest shapes, they were firm enough to transfer to the cupcakes within minutes.

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These sticky chocolate Easter nest cupcakes are ideal to make with children, they use a classic sponge batter with Stork baking margarine. I have been baking with soft baking margarine a few times lately and have been impressed with how easy it is to work with straight from the fridge and that it gives great results. I am often baking things last minute and forget to get butter out of the fridge in advance. I have tried microwaving butter for a few seconds but often it goes liquid in the centre very quickly but stays hard around the edges. I don’t have any such problem if baking with soft margarine.

I often bake with margarine rather than butter if I’m doing any batch baking for school bake sales. The price strategy of virtually every bake sale I attend seems to be stuck firmly in 1990 so baking margarine, being more economical to bake with than butter, will help you spend less on ingredients and give your fundraising efforts a boost!

The glossy cornflake mix has reminded me of a favourite pudding served with school dinners. I might have to recreate one of those soon!

When did you last bake with Stork?

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Chocolate Easter Cupcakes

Servings: 12
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients
For the cupcakes
115g (4 oz) Stork tub
115g (4 oz) caster sugar
2 large eggs
115g (4 oz) self-raising flour, sieved together with
½ teaspoon baking powder
For the chocolate nests
40g (1 ½ oz) Stork tub
3 tablespoons golden syrup
6 tablespoons drinking chocolate powder
18 tablespoons cornflakes or branflakes
To decorate
Sugared Mini Eggs

Directions

1. Place all cake ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat until well mixed. Place in 12 muffin paper cases
2. Bake in preheated oven 190°C, 170°C fan, Gas mark 5 for 15 -20 minutes. Cool.
3. For chocolate nest, gently melt Stork and syrup and stir in chocolate and cornflakes. Place a tablespoon of mix on each cupcake in a nest effect and leave to set. Serve decorated with Easter eggs.

Post commissioned by Stork. Recipe by Stork. Follow Stork on Twitter @bakewithstork and check out other peoples’ Stork creations on hashtag #bakewithstork

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Filed Under: Baking and Desserts, Branded Content Tagged With: chocolate, cupcakes, Easter

About Sarah Trivuncic

Sarah Trivuncic has published recipes, restaurant and travel reviews on Maison Cupcake since 2009. She lives in Walthamstow, East London with her husband and teenager.
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Comments

  1. Made With Pink says

    April 4, 2015 at 10:26 am

    Very cute cupcake nests Sarah. I’ve not tied baking with stork yet, but may give it a go after reading this. Enjoy your trip to Paris!

    Reply
  2. Jonathan Fletcher says

    April 8, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    They look amazing, reminds me of my childhood

    Reply

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