Easter is one of my favorite times to bake, especially when mini chocolate Easter eggs are involved. Enjoy!
Ingredients make 10 cupcakes
2/3 cup canola oil
1 cup sugar
4 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2/3 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
1/3 cup unsalted butter -very soft
1 3/4 - 2 cups icing sugar
3 - 3 1/2 tbsp milk
Yellow food colouring
Blue food colouring
Mini Chocolate Easter eggs
Directions
- Line two muffin tins with paper liners.
- Whisk together the canola oil and the sugar.
- Whisk in the eggs and the vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the cocoa powder, flour, and the baking powder.
- Gradually whisk the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
- Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Equally fill 10 paper liners.
- Bake for 20 -22 minutes.
- Remove the cupcakes from the tins and let them cool on a wire rack.
- Using an electric mixer on medium speed, cream the butter.
- Gradually add in the icing sugar and milk. Increase the speed if needed.
- Add in a few drops of food colouring to make green icing.
- Pipe some icing on each cupcake and top with some Easter eggs.
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