Easter Nest Cupcakes

Is it any wonder that Easter is our favourite time of year? Try our spectacular nest cupcakes for an Easter baking recipe that’s hard to beat. With two layers of light chocolate sponge, a rich and creamy buttercream icing and a delicate homemade nest topping, these Easter cupcakes really are a work of art.

Category | Baking

12 People

45 Minutes

Ingredients

175 g Kefalos butter
175 g Caster sugar
175 g Self-raising flour
50 g Cocoa Powder
3 Eggs

For the buttercream:
75 g Margarine
75 g Kefalos butter
1⁄2 tsp Vanilla essence
200 g Icing sugar
25 g Cocoa Powder
100 g plain chocolate broken into pieces
2 large Shredded wheat,broken into shreds (taking care to try to keep some longer strands)
Chocolate mini eggs, to decorate

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Cream the KEFALOS Butter and caster sugar together until almost a whipped and creamy mixture is formed. Add the flour, cocoa and eggs and fold together then whisk again until creamy.
Lightly grease a 12-hole muffin tin and divide the mixture between them. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 mins until well risen and firm on top. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 mins in the tin before using a small palette knife to ease each of the cakes out of the tin and onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
To make the buttercream, blend the KEFALOS Butter and margarine in a bowl until creamy, then add the vanilla essence, icing sugar and cocoa and mix carefully to avoid an icing sugar ‘cloud’, then beat until smooth and creamy.
Spoon into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle. Cut the cakes in half horizontally and pipe a layer of the buttercream onto the base layer, then top with the second layer.
Pipe a rosette of icing on the top of the cake, starting close to the edges and ending in a peak on the top.
To make the nests, melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water.
Remove from the heat and add the broken Shredded Wheat and very gently stir into the chocolate to allow it to coat the wheat strands.
Using small tea cups, place a tablespoonful of the mixture into each of the cups and shape into a nest shape, with a hollow centre, to resemble a nest.
Chill for 10 mins, or freeze for 2-3 mins until set firm, then remove from the cups using a small palette knife.
Place on top of each of the cakes, squishing down the icing peak to ‘glue’ the nest in place.
Fill each of the nests with a few mini eggs and serve.