With Easter being around the corner, I thought I should be Bunny suit out and make some Bunny food.

For this recipe I used my basic chocolate cake recipe, but instead of making a cup I transferred them into cupcake holder and turned them into cupcakes.

Ingredients:

• 1 x cup cake flour.
• 1 x tsp baking powder.
• ½ x tsp bicarbonate of soda.
• 6 x tbsp. cocoa powder.
• ¾ x cup castor sugar.
• ½ x cup cooking oil.
• ¼ x cup hot coffee ( 1 x tsp coffee in ¼ x cup boiling water).
• ¼ x cup milk.
• ¼ x cup plain yoghurt.
• 1 x tsp vanilla essence.
• Ferrero roche balls
• Speckled eggs.
• Chocolate vermicelli

Chocolate icing:

• 100g x room temperature margarine.
• 1/3 x cup cocoa powder.
• 100g x icing sugar.
• 1 x tsp vanilla essence.
• 3 x tsp hot water.
• Whisk everything together till it is well mixed and there are no lumps left in the icing.

Method:

• In a large bowl, sift together the cake flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder and castor sugar.
• Make a well and the wet ingredients one by one.
• Mix well, till everything is combined.
• Pour 1 x tsp of batter into your paper cups and then place a Ferrero ball into the cup.
• Fill the cup ¾ of the way.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes or until the cake tester comes out clean.
• Allow the cupcakes to cool for 10 minutes in the pan, before turning them out onto a cooling rack to cool.
• Once cool, pipe the icing around the edge of the cupcake so that there is a gap in the middle.
• Add your speckled eggs in the center and sprinkle with chocolate vermicelli.