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Hidden Reeses Egg Cupcakes April 9, 2020
Hidden Reeses Egg Cupcakes
Makes 10 hidden egg cupcakes with batter leftover for additional cupcakes (You could make 15 to 20 hidden egg cupcakes total with one cake mix.)
Ingredients
- 1 box Devil’s Food cake mix with ingredients for making the cake or your favorite chocolate cake recipe
- About 4 cups chocolate frosting
- 10 Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs frozen
- 1 cup miniature Reeses peanut butter cups coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare a cupcake pan with liners.
- Spritz with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together the cake mix and ingredients for making cake.
- Using a large scoop, divide the batter between the cupcake liners.
- Place one, unwrapped, frozen Reeses Egg in the middle of each cupcake liner.
- Bake cupcakes for 15 to 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted to the sides of the egg comes out clean. (Do not pierce through the center where the egg is.)
- Allow cupcakes to cool for 5 minutes in the pan before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Place the frosting in a piping bag fitted with an open star piping tip.
- Pipe frosting from the middle of each cupcake to the outer edge and back to the middle to create a peak.
- Press chopped Reeses cups into the frosting.
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