How to Make Cupcakes With a Candy Surprise Inside

Ingredients

• 2 & 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 & 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup margarine or butter, more for greasing muffin tin
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 & 1/4 cups milk
• chocolate eggs, enough for your muffin tin

Equipment

• Oven
• Muffin tin
• Paper or foil liners
• Stand mixer or hand mixer

Directions

Preheat oven.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease muffin tin.

Grease muffin tin with margarine or butter, or line your muffin tin with paper or foil liners. 

Sift dry ingredients.

Sift together 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, and 1 teaspoon salt.

 Cream ingredients in another bowl.

In another bowl, cream together 2/3 cup margarine or butter, 1 cup brown sugar, and 3/4 cup white sugar with a hand mixer or stand mixer.

Beat in eggs, and add vanilla.

Beat in 2 eggs, one at a time, and then stir in 1 teaspoon of vanilla.

Add milk to flour mixture.

Mix in flour mixture alternately with 1 1/4 cups milk, mixing until just incorporated.

Fill muffin cups and add surprise.

Fill each muffin cup 1/3 full with batter. Place a chocolate egg in the center. Fill in the batter on top until each muffin cup is 2/3 full.

Bake.

Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until golden brown, or cupcakes spring back when tapped in the middle.

Eat!