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Carlee's Celebrate Spring Cupcakes
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Prep Time:
30 minutes
Cook Time:
20 minutes
Total Time:
80 minutes
Fluffy chocolate-filled cupcakes topped with chocolate nests and candy eggs, ideal for Easter.
Ingredients:
  • 1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
  • 1.25 cups water
  • 0.33333334326744 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 (3.9 ounce) packages instant chocolate pudding mix
  • 2 cups milk
  • 2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed
  • 1 tablespoon chocolate sprinkles
  • 72 mini chocolate candy-coated Easter eggs
Instructions:
  • Preheat oven to a toasty 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  • Prepare 24 muffin cups by either greasing them or lining them with paper liners.
  • Combine chocolate cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and eggs in a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until fully incorporated, approximately 2 minutes.
  • Spoon the batter into the muffin cups, filling them two-thirds full.
  • Bake in the hot oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, around 20 minutes.
  • Let cupcakes cool completely.
  • In a bowl, combine 2 packages of pudding mix with milk and beat using an electric mixer until thickened, approximately 2 minutes.
  • Fold the thawed whipped topping into the pudding mixture until creamy.
  • Fill the pastry bag fitted with a large piping tip with approximately 1 1/2 cups of chocolate pudding filling.
  • Fill each cupcake with a generous 1 1/2 tablespoons of pudding mixture using a piping tip pressed into the center.
  • Fill each cupcake with a generous tablespoon of pudding mix to create a nest in the center. Decorate the edges of the nests with chocolate sprinkles and place 3 mini chocolate eggs in each nest.