Easter Surprise Cupcakes

Submitted by Marie

"When you bite into these delicious cupcakes, you will get a surprise. A small chocolate Easter egg in baked in the middle. Frost and decorate with your favorite icing. Fun to make with the kids."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 24 cupcakes

ingredients

• 2⁄3 cup soft butter
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 3⁄4 cups flour
• 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄4 cups milk
• 24 small chocolate eggs, unwrapped

directions

1. Heat oven to 350° and insert 24 paper baking cups into muffin tins.
2. Mix together, butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla in large mixing bowl until blended.
3. Beat on high speed for 5 minutes.
4. On low speed, beat in flour, baking powder and salt alternately with milk until well blended.
5. Fill muffin liners 1/3 full and place a chocolate egg in the center of each.
6. Top with remaining batter to 2/3 full.
7. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until done.
8. Cool and frost as desired.

Reviews

[Angie T.]

I made these today for Easter. I followed the directions exactly and to me they were a little dry. They almost had the consistency of cornbread. I was going to give them to the neighbors but couldn't bring myself to do it. Sorry.

 

[JFitz]

These were great! I always cheat and use a box recipe. They were so moist and easy to make. Thanks for a great recipe!!!

 

[LILLIANCOOKS]

These are VERY good! I love the fact that I can make the white cake from scratch! I used 2 1/4 cups of flour instead of 2 3/4. This recipe made 16 cupcakes. Great recipe! I added my photo!

 

[SweetSabrina]

These cupcakes were wonderful! Thanks Linda! I made them this past easter and everyone loved them. Slightly dry but I used a very creamy buttercream frosting that made up for it. Noticed that it was similar to surprise easter cupcakes #86865 like someone else mentioned but I liked the fact that it didn't use boxed cake mix. I tried putting the vanilla wafer in the bottom like the other recipe said but that was a bad idea. The cookies dried out and burned a little being so close to the bottom. Will definitely do it your way next time without the wafers.

 

[Lisa in Acworth, GA]

Really good! The batter was delicious and not difficult to make with my Kitchenaid stand mixer. Everyone loved the "surprise" and they were delicious! Thanks!