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Pieday Friday – sweet recipe: Cupcake surprise!

This week I’ve baked some cute cupcakes and now I’m blogging the photos so you can have a go yourself at baking these afternoon-tea treats for the weekend.

These cupcakes look pretty standard (although I did take a long time decorating them because I was trying out my new piping bag that my brother bought me for my birthday) but do not be fooled – the topping is not what makes these cakes so special: it is the sneaky treat on the inside that makes them extra-tasty!

filled cupcakes with sweet treat cooking recipe method

I chose to make a selection of flavours (coffee for mum, chocolate for hubby and vanilla for me!) and I followed my previous recipes for making sponge cakes – here’s my links for coffee buns, vanilla sponge and chocolate cake. I spooned the sponge mixtures into cupcake moulds and just before putting in the oven, I added a sweet treat to the centre of each cake – chocolate coins for the chocolate buns, jelly beans in the vanilla cakes and a coffee-filled chocolate sweet in the coffee cakes. This is a great idea for using up left over chocolates and sweets from Christmas – I now only have a box of After 8’s left!

sweet treat sponge cakes filled cupcakes with chocolate surprise filling recipe

I baked the cakes as normal and iced them with buttercream, coffee flavoured butter-icing and for the chocolate topping I actually used Choccy Philly, which worked really well and was easy to pipe! Add a few sweets or sprinkles to the top et voila! Cupcake heaven with a surprise treat in the centre 🙂

jelly beans vanilla sponge cupcake cooking

Let me know how you get on if you try out this method for yourself – I’d love to see your photos too! 

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Cassie is a freelance writer with a Masters degree in Lifestyle Promotion Studies and is trained in Personal Money Management. She loves to ‘get the look for less’ so regularly shares thrifty-living advice, DIY interior design ideas and low-cost recipes on her blog.

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