KitKat® Bunny Carrot Cupcakes

Details

These KitKat® Bunny Carrot Cupcakes look too cute to eat, well almost!

Serves
16
Time
45
Easy
KitKat® Bunny Carrot Cupcakes

Ingredients

  • For the cupcakes: 3 medium eggs, 175g light brown sugar,150ml vegetable oil, 195g gluten-free self-raising flour, 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 1 1⁄2 tsp ground cinnamon, plus extra to finish, 1/2 tsp ground ginger, Grated zest of 1⁄2 orange, 185g carrots, grated
  • For the cream cheese frosting: 150g unsalted butter, softened, 150g icing sugar, 300g cream cheese, 1 tsp vanilla extract, Green food colouring gel
  • Decoration: 16 KITKAT Bunny 11g, 16 Mini Fondant Carrots

What You Will need

Oven
Mixing bowl
Muffin cups

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 160°C fan/ 180°C.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, crack in the eggs, then add the sugar and oil. Mix until well combined.
  3. In a medium mixing bowl, add the flour, bicarb, cinnamon, & ginger. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture & gently fold in.
  4. Add the orange zest & grated carrots. Fold into the mixture & spoon your evenly into the 16 cupcake cases.
  5. Bake in the oven for 20–25 minutes until golden and cooked through. Remove the cupcakes from the tins and cool completely.
  6. While cooling, make the cream cheese frosting. Place your butter into a bowl & mix on a medium speed until the butter has turned a lot paler.
  7. Add your icing sugar & beat for about 3 minutes.
  8. Add in your cream cheese & vanilla extract and mix for a couple more minutes until well combined, and the icing is light and fluffy. Mix in the green food colouring till you are happy with the colour.
  9. Pipe the green cream cheese frosting onto each cupcake so it looks like grass (you could spoon it on too)! Finish each cupcake with a KitKat® Bunny and a little edible carrot!

Products used in this Recipe

KITKAT Bunny milk chocolate large easter egg
KITKAT Bunny milk chocolate large easter egg
Get ready for a fun Easter break with your very own KitKat® Bunny. What it lacks for in fluffiness, it more than makes up for in yumminess. A delicious mix of crispy wafer and indulgent milk chocolate filling coated in creamy milk chocolate. Hop, skip and bite into chocolatey bliss.

Nutritional Facts

16
Cupcake
Serving size
1 cupcake
Amount per serving
Calories
356kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat
22.7g
32%
Saturated Fat
9.5g
48%
Sodium
0.38g
6%
Total Carbohydrate
34.3g
13%
Dietary Fiber
1.1g
Total Sugars
23.5g
26%
Protein
3.0g
6%

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