Description
A fun and delicious cupcake recipe perfect for Halloween, featuring chocolate cupcakes with a creepy graveyard theme.
Ingredients
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- 12 Lotus biscoff biscuits
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- 150 g Dark chocolate, melted
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- 30 g White chocolate, melted
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- 175 g Baking spread or butter, softened, unsalted
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- 175 g Caster sugar
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- 3 large Eggs
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- 2 tbsp Milk
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- 150 g Self raising flour
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- 25 g Cocoa powder
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- ¼ tsp Baking powder
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- 115 g Full fat cream cheese
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- 15 g Icing sugar
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- 15 g Oreos, crushed (for filling)
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- ⅛ tsp Vanilla extract (for filling)
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- 100 g Butter, softened, unsalted (for buttercream)
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- 165 g Icing sugar (for buttercream)
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- 35 g Cocoa powder (for buttercream)
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- 1–2 tsp Milk (for buttercream)
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- 25 g Butter, softened, unsalted (for grass buttercream)
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- 50 g Icing sugar (for grass buttercream)
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- ⅛ tsp Vanilla extract (for grass buttercream)
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- Green food colouring
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- 35 g Oreos, crushed (for soil)
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Instructions
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- Snap about a third of the biscuit off at the end to make them shorter for the cupcakes. Melt the dark chocolate and dip the biscuit into it, then place it onto baking paper to set.
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- Once the dark chocolate is set, melt the white chocolate, put it in a piping bag, and pipe your chosen designs onto the biscuits. Leave to set.
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- Preheat your oven to 140C Fan/160C/325F/Gas Mark 3, and line a cupcake tin with cupcake cases.
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- Mix together the baking spread and caster sugar using an electric whisk or stand mixer with the paddle attachment for 5 minutes.
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- Add the eggs and milk, and whisk in well.
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- Gently whisk or fold in the self-raising flour, cocoa powder, and baking powder.
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- Divide the mixture between the 12 cupcake cases.
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- Bake them for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool completely.
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- While the cupcakes cool, make the Oreo cheesecake filling by mixing together the cream cheese, icing sugar, and vanilla until smooth, then stir in the crushed Oreos.
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- Use a cupcake corer or knife to make a hole in the middle of each cupcake and fill with the cheesecake mixture.
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- Make the chocolate buttercream by mixing together the butter, cocoa powder, icing sugar, and milk until smooth.
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- Make the green grass buttercream by mixing together the butter, icing sugar, vanilla, and green food colouring until smooth.
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- Pipe the chocolate buttercream onto each cupcake and smooth with a palette knife.
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- Push a chocolate-covered biscuit gravestone into each cupcake and sprinkle crushed Oreos in front of the biscuit grave.
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- Pipe the green buttercream around the biscuit to create grass or use a spoon to create texture.
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- Store in an airtight container in a cool place and consume leftovers within 3 days.
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Notes
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- You can use more or less green food coloring to achieve the desired shade for the grass buttercream.
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- Feel free to use any type of chocolate biscuits for the gravestones.
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- For best results, using a stand mixer speeds up the process of mixing the batters and butters.
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- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 25g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 48g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 45mg