Cadbury Easter cupcakes with a rich chocolate cupcake base filled with Cadbury eggs, creamy caramel frosting and a chocolate Easter egg candy on top. Perfect for any spring party!
Love Easter desserts? Try these Cadbury Easter cookies, egg nest cookies, bunny bait Easter chex mix or coconut macaroons, too!
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Chocolate Easter Cupcakes
This recipe is a fun twist on my chocolate cupcakes and is perfect for celebrating the Easter holiday. They are a chocolate dessert lover’s dream and taste incredible. Plus, that caramel buttercream on top is to die for!
Cadbury Easter cupcakes are perfect for your Easter dinner menu. My kids said these are their favorite chocolate cupcake from cake mix yet, and I agree! You can’t go wrong with chocolate and caramel Cadbury eggs!
How to Make Easter Cupcakes
There is so much goodness packed into these Easter cupcakes! The caramel frosting on top is so creamy and delicious and the actual cupcake itself is rich and perfect for chocolate lovers!
Scroll down for the printable recipe and video tutorial.
- Mix batter. Stir together cake mix, chocolate pudding and chocolate chips in a large bowl. Mix in eggs, oil and water. Then add sour cream and stir. Scoop the caramel out of the large Cadbury eggs and set aside in small bowl. Then chop up the chocolate from the eggs and stir into the batter.
- Fill. Pour batter into cupcake liners, about 3/4 full. Place a mini Cadbury egg in the center of each cupcake.
- Bake. Bake at 325°F for 20-23 minutes, until they spring back when touched or a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool completely on cooling rack.
Caramel Buttercream Frosting
To make the caramel frosting, melt the caramel in a microwave safe bowl. Then whip the butter in a large mixing bowl.
Next slowly add in 2 cups powdered sugar and mix. Then add vanilla, milk or cream, melted caramel and 1 more cup of powdered sugar. Add the last cup of powdered sugar and mix until combined.
Add more or less milk/cream to reach desired consistency. Then pipe the frosting on top of the each of the cupcakes.
Baking Tips
- Don’t overfill. Fill the cupcake liners about 2/3 of the way full (don’t fill them to the top or else they will overflow and have mushroom tops).
- Avoid sinking. Instead of folding the chocolate chips into the batter at the end, I like to mix the chocolate chips in with the cake mix and pudding mix. The flour from the cake mix helps make sure they don’t sink to the bottom.
- Frosting. The texture of the frosting should be thick and creamy. It needs to be firm in order to hold a point when you pipe it on. You could also use this caramel cream cheese frosting!
- Decorations. I like to add an additional mini Cadbury egg on top to make the cupcakes extra festive. You could also frost with a spatula, add toasted coconut and colored candy eggs on top instead.
Need more Easter dessert recipes? Try this carrot cake cookie recipe, lemon blueberry cupcakes or colorful Easter cake pops.
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Easter Cupcakes
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Ingredients
Cupcakes:
- 15 ounce box devil’s food cake mix
- 3.4 ounce box chocolate pudding mix , dry
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- 4 eggs
- ¾ cup canola oil
- ¾ cup hot water
- 1 cup sour cream
- 24 mini Cadbury caramel eggs
- 4 large Cadbury caramel eggs
Caramel Buttercream Frosting:
- 2 sticks salted butter , softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 to 5 teaspoons cream , or milk
- 3 Tablespoons caramel , from large Cadbury eggs
Instructions
Cupcakes:
- Preheat the oven to 325°F.
- In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, chocolate pudding and chocolate chips. Stir until combined. Next mix in the eggs, canola oil and water. Finally mix in the sour cream.
- Then scoop the caramel out of the large Cadbury eggs and set aside. Chop up the chocolate from the eggs and stir into the batter.
- Pour batter into the cupcake liners (about 3/4 the way full). Then place a mini Cadbury egg in the center of the cupcake.
- Bake for 20-23 minutes or until they spring back when touched. Do not over cook. You can also test with a tooth pick to make sure the centers are cooked all the way through.
- Remove from oven and allow cupcakes to cool on a cooling rack.
Caramel Frosting:
- Melt the caramel in a microwave safe bowl.
- Whip butter in a large mixing bowl. Next slowly add in 2 cups powdered sugar and mix. Then add vanilla, milk/cream, melted caramel and 1 more cup of powdered sugar. Add last cup of powdered sugar and mix until combined. Add more or less milk/cream to reach desired consistency.
- Pipe frosting on cooled cupcakes, then top with mini Cadbury egg if desired.
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Enjoy!
Categorized as: American, Cake + Cupcakes, Chocolate, Desserts, Easter, Kid-Friendly
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
These are adorable as is your little girl! And your photography is amazing :)
Thanks Amy! I remember first being inspired by your beautiful pictures. They are finally getting a little better. :) Can’t wait to see you in a few short weeks! xo
Those are some of the cutest Easter cupcakes I’ve seen! Found you through Tip junkie :-)
Loving the cups! Can you really get Cadburys Eggs there now? Life is looking up!
Cadbury mini-eggs are just about the sweetest little spring treats ever! I love their pastel colors and diminutive speckles! They look absolutely charming on the cupcakes.
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Ooohh these are gorgeous! Love the pink polka dot baking cups, and the cute little nests you made on top of the cupcakes! Adorable!!!!
I love the baking cups! Do you mind sharing where you got them? They’d be perfect for my daughter’s first birthday party!
Just so sweet and pretty! (both the cupcakes and your little girl!!)
Looks super yummy! I just love toasted coconut, so this is right up my alley.
Little one is such a cutie pie. Thanks for the post.
Those are super cute! Love that you just toasted the coconut instead of dying it green. Oh and Emmie looks darn cute enjoying that cupcake! I need to get some polka dot baking cups STAT!
Those look DELISH!!!!
Yum! I love the cupcake liners – so cute. Great photos.
Super cute cupcakes…and baby too! ;D
I had a question for you, I see that you have used the bead board paneling in some of your photo’s which looks super cute, do you also put a backdrop up behind as well? I’m terrible in the photo taking department and I’m trying to find a light and fresh way to photography my products and projects any tips you have would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Very pretty cupcakes.
Love your daughter’s shirt.
Where did you purhcase it?
Enjoy your day Jamielyn.
Those are the cutest, most irresistible Easter cupcakes I’ve seen! And who doesn’t love Cadbury anything??♥
Those look lush! What flavour cake mix did you use?
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Those are just too cute! That is a good tip about not filling the cupcake baking paper too full in to have a flat surface for the cute toppings. Miss Emmie is adorable!