Vegan Creme Egg Cupcakes

6 Vegan Creme Egg Cupcakes on a white plate

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These Vegan Creme Egg Cupcakes have a chocolate sponge and vanilla buttercream topped with half of a vegan creme egg.

Prep Time5

Cook Time25

Total Time30

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: British

Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian

Keyword: bicarbonate of soda, caster sugar, cocoa powder, icing sugar, lemon juice, plant milk, self raising flour, vanilla paste, vegan butter, yellow food colouring

Servings: cupcakes

Calories: 296.41kcal

Equipment

1 12 hole cupcake tin or 2 x 6 hole cupcake tin
1 Electric whisk

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

150 ml plant milk e.g. soy milk or oat milk
½ teaspoon lemon juice
125 g vegan butter
125 g caster sugar
0.5 teaspoon vanilla paste
125 g self-raising flour
25 g cocoa powder
0.5 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

For the buttercream

125 g vegan butter e.g. Naturli or Flora
250 g icing sugar
0.5 teaspoon vanilla paste
yellow gel food colouring
6 vegan creme eggs e.g. the Mummy Meegz Chuckie Eggs

Instructions

Heat the oven to 180C/356 F/gas 4.
Add cupcake cases to 1x 12 hole or 2x 6 hole cupcake tins.
Add the lemon juice to the plant milk and leave to curdle.
Beat the vegan butter and sugar with an electric whisk until pale and creamy.
Add in the vanilla to the plant milk and whisk well. Don't worry if it is curdled and lumpy.
Fold in the flour, cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda and mix until just combined and the batter is creating bubbles. If you find the batter is lumpy give it a quick whisk with the electric whisk again.
Divide between the cupcake cases, filling them two-thirds full.
Bake for 20 - 25 mins until risen. They should be bouncy to the touch and a skewer should come out clean.
Leave to on a wire rack to cool.
To make the buttercream, beat the butter, icing sugar and vanilla with an electric whisk until pale and creamy. It is done when it no longer feels grainy.
Split the buttercream in half and add the yellow food gel to one half.
Fill a piping bag with a star nozzle so that one half is yellow and the other half is white.
Pipe swirls on top of the cooled cupcakes.
Top with half a creme egg.

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