Do you want an easy and MOIST and {Healthy} cupcake?!?
Your wish has come true. Tada!
And how cute is this little surprise inside!?!
All you have to do is plop a little cadbury egg on the batter before baking and voila! Secret surprise inside!
Besides the fact that they have a secret surprise inside, they are secretly delicious….a.k.a. made with black beans.
I’m telling you, this is the best kept secret since homemade chocolate milk! Yeah, I used to think you could only buy chocolate milk. No one ever told me you could just mix chocolate syrup and milk!
Come on people, I was 5.
Anyway, sometimes you just need a cupcake…
…especially a cupcake that you can eat and not feel guilty about, well, except for the icing. That’s full on buttery deliciousness! 😀
Go eat a cupcake.
And surprise someone after they’ve eaten it that it was made with black beans instead of flour. It’ll blow their minds!!!
Also, have a great weekend! I’m heading down to Charleston for my baby shower!
{Secret Ingredient} Cadbury Creme Cupcakes
adapted from Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 (15.5 oz) can of reduced sodium black beans, drained and rinsed
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 5 tablespoons coconut oil, or unsalted butter (softened)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 5 tablespoons special dark cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 24Â Cadbury Mini Creme Eggs, unwrapped
How-To
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Line a 12 cup muffin pan and spray with cooking spray.
- In your Blendtec blender (or food processor), combine the black beans, eggs, vanilla extract, coconut oil, and sugar. Beat until blended.
- Add in the cocoa powder, baking powder, and baking soda. Beat until blended.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and place one Cadbury creme egg on the top of each, pushing down into the batter just a tiny bit.
- Bake for 25 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 5 minutes in the muffin tin.
- Remove and place the cupcakes on a cooling rack to cool completely before icing.
- Ice the cupcakes and place another Cadbury creme egg on top.
Vanilla Frosting
adapted from Taste of Home
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 9 cups powdered sugar
- 12 tablespoons heavy cream
- yellow food coloring
How-To
- Beat the butter and vanilla together until fluffy.
- Add in the powdered sugar and heavy cream.
- Beat until the correct consistency, adding either more heavy cream or more powdered sugar to adjust.
- Separate about 2 cups of the icing into a separate bowl, color yellow.
- Place the white and yellow icings into separate pastry bags, attached with pastry tips.
- Ice the cupcakes, first with the white icing as the majority of the icing.
- Then, top with a dollop of the yellow icing.
Servings: 12 cupcakes
I loved your black bean cake when I made it so I bet these are amazing! They are adorable, too!
So cute! Cadbury Creme Eggs are my boyfriend’s favorite candy…although I think his palate might be too discerning to fool him with black bean cupcakes. 😉
Have a wonderful baby shower!! I hope we get a recap when you return…
Ooh, your creme eggs have green on the foil! In the UK it’s purple…either way, these cupcakes look yummy 🙂
What a fantastic idea for Easter!! And how delicious and dark they look!
Those look incredible!! What a great idea for Easter and probably 10 times yummier than just the plain egg!
Perfect for Easter brunch! Love the secret treat!
pretty! have fun at your shower – hope we get to hear all about it!
Wow beautiful pictures and let’s not forget those cupcakes. I have never baked with black beans before. Very interesting. How is the texture and flavor? Can you actually tell? Because I would totally try this. PINING 🙂
It’s amazing! It just tastes like a very moist chocolate cake! 😀 Just don’t try the batter…that’s quite gross.
Caroline! You are a genius! I’m making some form of these this weekend! I loved my secret ingredient black bean brownies, so I can only imagine that these are just as good, if not even better. I can’t wait!
And, as always, the photos are beautiful!
These look amazing! I’ve never done the black bean thing before, but I think I am going to have to give these a try!
These are so cute! I’m a bit scared of beans but I’ll try to gather the courage to make these one day. And I love the wrappers. Have fun at your baby shower! 🙂
I’ll admit I’m scared of the beans. But these look so good in your pictures! I’m very tempted to try these out 😀 And I love the creme egg idea. I’ve been craving a creme egg for weeks now but haven’t let myself pick one up at the store. I need some 😀
These take me right back to my childhood. What a fun surprise to bite into a cupcake and found a gooey, creamy chocolate egg.
Black beans and cadbury eggs are two things that I thought I would never see combined!
Black beans..? They look really great! I would love to grab one 🙂
Ditto to what Shelly said, definitely not two things you see paired together!
OK! So it’s time I make the black bean cake! Love the presentation here 🙂
I’ve never tried black beans in baked goods, but maybe it’s time to try, because these are too cute!
Creme eggs are my favorite and I LOVE that there are black beans in the recipe to give it a little health boost. Awesome recipe and the pictures are gorgeous!
What pretty little cupcakes! I haven’t had a Cadbury egg YET this year and I was so proud of myself for not touching them but now these cupcakes are making me rethink that very stupid promise. Mweh, there’s always next year!
This recipe has been on my list forever and I finally made them tonight for a church gathering. Looking forward to getting reactions! They look delicious.