Name: Honeycomb cupcakes recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 28 min
Yield: Makes: 12
Cuisine: Baking
Ingredients: 100g soft margarine; 100g caster sugar; 2 eggs; 100g self raising flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 500g low fat soft cream cheese; 300g icing sugar; Few drops vanilla essence; 3 Crunchie bars; Sugar Bee decorations (available from Squires Kitchen)

By GoodtoKnow

published 8 October 2010

in Recipes

These delicious honeycomb cupcakes are so easy to make. Topped with Crunchie bars, these mouth-watering cupcakes take just 10 minutes to prepare. This cupcake recipe serves 12.

Ingredients

100g soft margarine
100g caster sugar
2 eggs
100g self raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
500g low fat soft cream cheese
300g icing sugar
Few drops vanilla essence
3 Crunchie bars
Sugar Bee decorations (available from Squires Kitchen)

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Method

Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Place 12 cupcake cases into a muffin tin. Put the margarine, sugar, eggs, flour and baking powder into a large bowl & mix with an electric whisk for 2-3 mins until smooth.
Half fill the cupcake cases with the mixture. Bake for 13-18 mins until the cakes spring back when touched. Take out of the tin & cool on a wire rack.
Beat together the cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla essence using an electric whisk till smooth.
Spread/pipe onto the cupcakes & then have fun decorating.
Chop the Crunchie bars into chunks about 1cm thick & arrange on the top with a sugar bee amongst the honeycomb.

Top Tip for making Honeycomb cupcakes

Ally says she always doubles the mixture to make 24 cupcakes, as they are always hugely popular

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