♻️ Substitutions / Variations
Ingredient substitutions
Mini eggs are a chocolate coated with a sugar shell, made by Cadbury. You can swap these for other brands of chocolate candy eggs, like Smarties mini eggs or Terry’s chocolate orange eggs. You can also use other types of mini Easter egg, like mini creme eggs.
Instead of white sugar, you can use golden caster sugar or light brown soft sugar. This gives your cupcake a more caramel flavour.
You can swap the plain flour in the cupcake recipe for self-raising flour of the same quantity. If doing this, exclude the baking powder.
You can use whole, semi-skimmed or non-dairy milk in the cupcake batter and buttercream. For the buttercream, this gives it a thinner, creamier consistency, so only add as much as needed, 1 tablespoon at a time.
For the chocolate frosting, you can use any unsweetened baking cocoa powder, such as natural cocoa powder, Dutch-processed cocoa powder or black cocoa powder. This is not the same as hot cocoa powder for a hot chocolate drink, which won’t work in this recipe.
