Easter Cupcakes

There's no escaping it - Easter means chocolate. Cupcakes, should therefore be covered in chocolate.

You can either make chocolate or chocolate mud cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes can be frosted in chocolate buttercream and chocolate mud cupcakes frosted in chocolate ganache. Most chocoholics would also like to have chocolate sprinkles or candies to decorate the top of the cupcake. If you are like me, and love chocolate but not quite to that extent, tone the frosting down and make vanilla frosting.

I use Flake bars for lots of decorating as it breaks into such good chunks. I like to spread the top of each Easter cupcake with chocolate ganache and then cover the ganache with broken Flake bars. Put two or three blue or pink sugared almonds in the centre and you have your own little Easter egg nest.

If you don't want chocolate another idea is to add a few drops of green food color to shredded coconut. Mix well until the coconut is evenly colored. Frost cupcakes with glace or buttercream frosting and cover with coconut. Put two or three sugared almonds in the centre and you still get an Easter egg nest.

Or, you could spread the top of your Easter cup cakes with buttercream frosting or glace frosting. Unwrap a small chocolate Easter egg and place in the centre of each cupcake.

For those that want a break from chocolate, try my Easter Spice cupcakes.

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