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A bake that I have wanted to post for a while, because it’s a classic, and it’s delicious and the amount of people who have asked for this is insane – they’re a cute and simple bake for the Easter season. <\/p>\n
We are a few weeks into the Easter baking season of 2025 now, and I am loving it so much so far. We all know how much I love baking for Easter because the colours are so pretty, the flavours are delicious and I always just want to post more and most new recipes and bake endless amounts of delicious treats. <\/p>\n
The bakes can range from an easter pavlova<\/a>, to a mini egg cheesecake<\/a>, to a salted caramel easter tart<\/a> and on and on to lots of other bakes. I always like to post a variety as people have different flavour preferences and wants for the styles of bakes they make over this spring season, and you guys always have so many good recipe requests. <\/p>\n I’ve posted a few new Easter recipes this year so far such as my easter chocolate tart<\/a> and my slow cooker easter fudge<\/a> and they are both utterly scrumptious, but I really wanted to post another new bake that is simple, easy and fun for everyone to make. Yes, it’s a little messy, but it’s worth it I promise. <\/p>\n I have posted some themed easter cupcakes before with my carrot patch cupcakes<\/a>, and my chick cupcakes<\/a>, and I adore both of these recipes. They have a cute and nice theme to them, and can pretty much be flavoured whatever you want. I love a theme like this because usually the colours are brighter and more fun. <\/p>\n These cupcakes have a typical mix of a chocolate cupcake base, but you can use other flavours if you want (notes below) and then a vanilla buttercream frosting on top (again, you can adapt this flavour!). I used the base flavours because I like them, and it’s what I was in the mood for – but my recipes are always designed to be customisable to a point so you can easily adapt them to your preferences. <\/p>\n Where I have done so many chocolate based cupcakes before, from the basic chocolate cupcake<\/a> up to my chocolate fudge cupcakes<\/a>, I wanted to adapt this sponge recipe slightly to show a slightly different version again. There are many options when it comes to baking and there isn’t only one option you can choose from. <\/p>\n Typically I post my other recipes using just cocoa powder for example, and some using melted chocolate, but on this occasion I wanted to level the sponges up to make them richer and more chocolatey without having to be a full blown fudge sponge cake.<\/p>\n The frosting for this is an American buttercream frosting again, I won’t lie. Partly because I purposely wanted this recipe to be super easy for all skill levels, but if you want to use a swiss meringue buttercream instead you can follow this recipe<\/a> instead and still colour it the same.<\/p>\n So, the most important part of this bake is the ‘speckle’ theme to the easter speckle cupcakes. It may be obvious to say that, but the rest of the recipe is purely a choice on flavours on my part. The speckle theme is quite popular amongst easter baking, and I have done my easter speckle cake<\/a> already and I adore it. However, that is quite intense, and I wanted to change it up. <\/p>\n This time, as it’s cupcakes, I find the recipe much easier – it’s still messy, but as you only have to flick downwards onto cupcakes it’s much easier than flicking the speckle all up the sides and on top of a tall cake. I usually keep my cupcakes in the muffin tray once frosted, flick the speckle onto that and then it’s only one dish to wash up. <\/p>\n The speckle itself consists of a mix of cocoa powder and water. You want to really mix it together to quite a runny but thick mixture. You can practice how well the mix flecks into the sink or similar to work out if you need to add any more water or not. I use a pastry brush<\/a> and my finger to flick it all over. Then, I top the cupcakes with some easter chocolates – but this is optional. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.janespatisserie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EasterSpeckleCupcakes1-2-534x800.jpg\")
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<\/p>\nEaster cupcakes <\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nChocolate sponge <\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nVanilla frosting <\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nThe decoration<\/h3>\n
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<\/div>\n\t\tChocolate and vanilla Easter speckle cupcakes with a chocolate sponge, and vanilla buttercream frosting with a chocolate speckle!<\/span><\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t