Chocolate cupcakes baked in silicone terra cotta baking cups with Reese's Cup Bunnies popping out.
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
American
Keyword:
bunny cupcake, easter themed dessert
Servings: 12
Author: Beth Klosterboer
Ingredients
Chocolate Cupcakes (recipe adapted from Cupcake Project)
¼cupunsalted butter,softened
1cup7 ounces sugar
2ouncessemi sweet chocolate,melted
2large eggs,room temperature
2large egg yolks,room temperature
9tablespoons4 ½ fluid ounces vegetable or canola oil
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
⅓cup2 ¾ ounce sour cream
1cupall-purpose flour
½teaspoonsalt
½teaspoonbaking soda
½cup2 ounces cocoa powder
½cup4 fluid ounces room temperature water
Chocolate Ganache
12ouncessemi-sweet chocolate
1cupheavy whipping cream,divided
Reese's Cup Bunnies
12White Reese's Cups
5ouncescreamy white modeling chocolatecandy clay*
2ouncesbright pink candy clay
1ouncebright white candy clay
1ounceblack candy clay
2ouncesorange candy clay
1ouncegreen candy clay
*See recipe for candy clay on Hungry Happenings' Chocolate Making Tips Page.
6ouncescreamy white candy melts,melted or melted and tempered pure white chocolate
Instructions
Chocolate Cupcakes
Preheat oven to 325 F.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, mix butter and sugar until fully combined.
Add melted chocolate and beat until well mixed.
Mix in eggs and egg yolks one at a time until just combined.
Mix in oil, vanilla, and sour cream until just combined.
Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, and cocoa powder together then mix into wet ingredients in three increments.
Mix in water until just combined.
Fill silicone mold with 5 tablespoons of batter.
Equally divide remaining batter in 4 cupcake liners.
Bake for 18-24 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean.
Remove and allow to cool completely.
Remove about an inch or so of cake from the center of each terra cotta cupcake by using a cupcake corer or knife.
Crumble the removed cake pieces along with one of the cupcakes. Set aside.
Chocolate Ganache
Combine chocolate with ¾ cup heavy whipping cream.
Heat on high power in the microwave for 1 minute 15 seconds.
Let chocolate rest in microwave for 2 minutes.
Remove and stir until melted.
If needed, heat for 10-15 more seconds.
Pour in remaining whipping cream and stir until smooth.
Pour warm ganache over top of one of the terra cotta cakes then sprinkle cake crumbs over top.
Repeat covering all the terra cotta cupcakes.
Use the remaining ganache to frost the plain cupcakes and enjoy a snack.
Reese's Cup Bunnies
Unwrap White Reese's Cups and set aside.
Roll out creamy white, pink, bright white and black candy clay.
Cut out twenty four 2 ½ inch long tear drop shaped creamy white ears.
Cut out twenty four 1 ¾ inch long tear drop shaped pink ears.
Brush a dab of water on a pink ear and set the wet side on the white ear, centering the pink part.
Repeat creating 24 ears.
Cut out twenty four ½ inch bright white circles and ⅜ inch black circles.
Brush one side of a white circle with water and set the wet side down on the Reese's Cup situated where you'd want your Bunny's eyes.
Press down on the white candy clay smoothing it out and making it a bit larger.
Repeat, adding the second white circle right next to the first.
Attach two black pupils to the whites using a very small amount of water.
Continue adding eyes to all your Reese's Cups.
Pinch off a small piece of pink candy clay and shape it into a nose.
Attach under the eyes using a dab of water.
Set the points of the bunny ears together on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
Pour a small amount of white candy melts over the tips of the ears then continue adding a 2 ½ inch line of candy melts straight down from the ear forming a pick that will go into the cupcakes.
Set the Reese's cup on the wet candy so that the bunny faces the correct direction.
Freeze for 5 minutes until the candy melts harden.
Remove from freezer and let sit at room temperature for 10 minutes.
Bend one ear a little bit then flip the bunny over.
Brush candy melts over the back of the bunny's ears, head, and pick to give it more stability.
Let the candy melts dry.
Pinch off small pieces of orange candy clay and shape them into carrots.
Poke a hole in the larger end of the carrot.
Roll tiny pieces of green candy clay into carrot shapes as well.
Brush some water on the pointed end and insert it into the hole in the orange carrot.
Flatten out the green candy melts, then make indentations using a sharp knife so that the green candy looks like carrot greens.
Use the back of the knife to create grooves around the carrot.
Pinch off small pieces of creamy white candy clay and roll them into 24 balls.
Cut a slit halfway through each ball.
Assemble Cupcakes
Insert a Reese's Cup Bunny into a terra cotta pot cupcake.
Place a white ball of candy clay so that the slit goes over the edge of the silicone terra cotta pot forming one bunny paw. Add a second paw.
Poke a hole in the cupcake and insert the tip of a carrot in front of the bunny.