Easter Nest Cupcakes: For All The Family To Enjoy
Simple but effective Easter nest cupcakes for all the family to enjoy. Both in the making and in the eating.
Well Easter just wouldn’t be right without a little bit of baking. Oh and chocolate of course. Stork have come up with a fun bake to be enjoyed by friends and family over the Easter weekend. They reckon these Easter Nest Cupcakes would make a nice alternative to all those chocolate Easter eggs that abound at this time of the year. But why not have both I say.
The cupcakes are very simple to make and the chocolate nests on top are a nice messy activity for the kids to get involved in, if so desired. You could even have a family competition as to who can make the best nest.
Unusually for me, I followed the recipe nearly exactly. The only change I made was to use cardamom flavoured golden caster sugar. I have a jar of sugar with cardamom pods sitting in it permanently on the go. It adds a delicate but noticeable aromatic note that works well with many cakes and biscuits.
Using Stork margarine not only made the cakes extremely light, but made the preparation process really speedy; no need to wait for butter to soften and everything can be mixed together in one fell swoop.
Easter Chocolate Nests
The fun bit came with making the nests to go on top of the cakes. I doubt there’s an adult out there who doesn’t have fond childhood memories of chocolate cornflake cakes. Do tell me it’s not just me?
My cakes rose far too well and didn’t come out of the oven with flat tops. I should have done the sensible thing and cut off the volcanic eruptions in the middle, but I didn’t. As a result, my nests were more like eagles eyries, just about clinging on to the precipitous crags and the single eggs I managed to attach looked somewhat precarious.
Despite this, or maybe because of it, I felt ridiculously pleased with my Easter Nest Cupcakes. I took them with me to an Easter gathering my mother was hosting and it was gratifying to see the delight on people’s faces when they got a glimpse of them. Luckily I received appreciative comments in between the crunching and munching.
Wishing everyone a very Happy and chocolate filled Easter.
Other Easter Bakes You Might Like
- Almond Easter thumbprint cookies with chocolate ganache
- Amaretto chocolate Easter cupcakes with marzipan and crystallised flowers
- Creme egg buns
- Easter brownies
- Hot cross buns
- Simnel cake with homemade marzipan
- Simnel mincemeat Easter cake with chocolate apostles
- Spiced rum n raisin Easter chocolate cakes
- Spicy chocolate & orange Easter bundt cake
- Surprise Easter egg cupcakes with almond and lemon
For more Easter recipe inspiration, you might want to take a look at my Easter category here on Tin and Thyme. And for even more ideas head to my Easter board on Pinterest.
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Easter Nest Cupcakes – The Recipe
Easter Nest Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cakes
- 115 g Stork tub (4 oz)
- 115 g golden caster sugar (4 oz)
- 2 large eggs
- 115 g self-raising flour (self-rising flour) (4 oz)
- ½ tsp baking powder
Chocolate Nests
- 40 g Stork tub (1 ½ oz)
- 3 tbsp golden syrup
- 6 tbsp drinking chocolate powder
- 18 tbsp cornflakes or branflakes
- mini eggs to decorate
Instructions
- Place all cake ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat until well mixed. Spoon in to 12 muffin holes lined with paper cases.115 g Stork tub, 115 g golden caster sugar, 2 large eggs, 115 g self-raising flour (self-rising flour), ½ tsp baking powder
- Bake in preheated oven 190°C, 170°C fan, Gas mark 5 for 15 -20 minutes when the cakes should be well risen and golden. Place on a wire rack to cool.
- For the chocolate nests, gently melt the Stork and syrup in a pan. Stir in the chocolate and cornflakes. Place a tablespoon of mix on each cupcake and shape into a nest. Leave in a cool place to set – about half an hour.40 g Stork tub, 3 tbsp golden syrup, 6 tbsp drinking chocolate powder, 18 tbsp cornflakes
- Place the nests on top of the cooled cakes and fill with mini eggs.mini eggs
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As Easter heralds the true coming of spring, I am sending these Easter Nest Cupcakes off to The Baking Explorer and CakeyBoi for Treat Petite.
For the same reason, these are also going to Ness at JibberJabberUK for Love Cake where the theme is Step into Spring.
This is a sponsored post, although all words and images are my own except where stated.
My nan always used Stork and my mum and I have followed her example. I love the twist of adding the chocolate nests on top of the cupcakes.
I know some people swear by Stork Ness. With the nests, you get to have your cake and eat it 😉
oh what a great idea is cardamon sugar! And the cakes look VERY cute. Swap you a room next time you are coming to london in exchange for a batch? xx
Haha Fiona, you know what, I think I could manage that swap 😉
These are adorable. I made some very similar ones for Jelly Belly last year. Best of both – cake and crispies
Thanks Helen and yes it’s a good mix, everyone gets something they like.
These are so sweet aren’t they Choclette and I loved the challenge too!
They are cute and everyone loved them and they were fun to do too Karen.
mmmm, cardamom flavoured sugar! hello!… nice cupcakes… LOVE the crunchy nests. x
Thanks Dom, cardamom sugar is now one of my pantry staples. Hope you’ve been enjoying the Easter weekend 🙂
Oh what a lovely little cupcakes! Hope you had a fabulous Easter! x
Thanks Sylvia. We’re having a lovely Easter thanks, hope you are too.
Mmm yum! My kids would love these, and I love the addition of the cardamom scented sugar – how nice! Hope you had a lovely Easter weekend 🙂
Thanks Elizabeth, I wouldn’t be without my jar of cardamom sugar. We’ve had a great Easter weekend thanks, the weather has been wonderful. Hope you’ve had a good one too.
I normally just have vanilla sugar on the go so will definitely try a cardamom one as well. And crispy nests on top of sponge cakes just sounds dangerously moreish.
I have vanilla sugar too Tracy, but I use my cardamom sugar more.
Easter Nest cakes of any type are great for Easter and these are a nice mix of proper cake and no bake cake, can’t do better than that.
Thanks Janice. When I was living at home as a teenager, I always decorated the Easter Simnel cake with chocolate nests, sometimes made out of cornflakes and sometimes out of shredded wheat.
These are so very cute and really pretty. I am sure they would make a perfect teatime treat for Easter.
Thanks Nayna, I have a bit of a thing for chocolate cornflake cakes, so they were bound to be a success with me 🙂
These look like lots of fun. I regret to say that I didn’t have cornflake chocolate treats as a kid – we had heaps of chocolate crackles which are made with rice bubbles/rice krispies. I did make your hidden egg marzipan cupcakes (and posted today) – they are amazingly good. Thanks.
Oh well Johanna, rice krispie cakes are nearly as good 😉 I’m coming over right now to see how you got on.
These look delicious, I made chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and mini eggs to decorate for Easter, but I might make these next year x
They sound good too Stepahine, cream cheese frosting can be delicious.
These look really easy to make – I reckon even I could do reasonably well! Interesting to read you are in Cornwall – my parents are from Plymouth and all my ancestors are Cornish. Hope you’re enjoying Poldark!
They are easy to make Linda, do have a go. I take it you are a long way from home then? As for Poldark, I’m looking forward to the next episode 🙂