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Carlee's Celebrate Spring Cupcakes
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"Cupcakes with creamy chocolate surprise centers and a cute little bird's nest on top of creamy chocolate frosting. Made these in honor of my daughter, Carlee."
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Ingredients
1 h 20 m servings 211 calsOriginal recipe yields 24 servings (2 dozen cupcakes)
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Directions
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Grease 24 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
- Place chocolate cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and eggs in a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until thoroughly combined, about 2 minutes.
- Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full with batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 19 to 23 minutes.
- Allow cupcakes to cool thoroughly.
- Beat the 2 packages of pudding mix with milk in a bowl using an electric mixer until thickened, about 2 minutes.
- Beat thawed whipped topping into pudding mixture to make a creamy filling.
- Spoon about 1 1/2 cup chocolate pudding filling into a pastry bag fitted with a large piping tip.
- Press the piping tip into the center of each cupcake and fill cupcake with about 1 1/2 tablespoon of pudding mixture.
- Spoon a heaping tablespoon of remaining pudding mixture about 1 1/2 inches across into the center of each cupcake to make a nest. Press chocolate sprinkles into edges of the nests; place 3 mini chocolate eggs into each nest.
Footnotes
- Cook's Note:
- Use any flavor cake mix that goes well with chocolate.
- Tip
- Aluminum foil helps keep food moist, ensures it cooks evenly, keeps leftovers fresh, and makes clean-up easy.
Nutrition Facts
Per Serving: 211 calories; 10 g fat; 28.7 g carbohydrates; 3.2 g protein; 25 mg cholesterol; 329 mg sodium. Full nutrition
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3/21/2012
As the submitter of this simple but fun cupcake idea, I have to say there seems to be one typo and that is, you will need about one tablespoon of sprinkles per cupcake, not just one tablespoon t...
3/28/2012
What a wonderful cupcake! I made these this afternoon with my little guy and we had a blast. The creamy filling/frosting is absolutely delicious and I definitely will be using it for other cup...
4/7/2012
These were definately a hit with my family and kiddos. Made a Duncan Hines devils food cake and for the frosting, I used sugar free/fat free chocolate pudding, skim milk and fat free whipped top...
4/8/2012
idea and appearance for sure gets a 5 - - taste is a 3, so i will round out a 4. boxed cake mix and pudding do not make a great cupcake imho.... i made it for the kids for our easter dessert ta...
3/20/2016
I used the birds nest idea for fun. I didn't turn out how I had planned, but overall a great idea!
5/30/2015
I used jelly beans, and the bird's nests didn't really work out for me, but they tasted great. I just whipped cream, and it was a wonderful idea to combine that and pudding for a unique frosting!