Slime-Center Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

Ingredients

• 150 g plain flour
• 45 g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1/4 teaspoon fine salt
• 150 g caster sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 120 ml neutral oil
• 120 ml buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 120 g lime curd
• 1 to 2 drops green gel food coloring
• 100 g unsalted butter, softened
• 200 g icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon whole milk
• 12 small gummy worms

Method

1. 1

   Heat the oven to 180 C, or 160 C fan, and line a 12-hole muffin pan with paper cases.

2. 2

   Whisk the flour, cocoa, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, and caster sugar in a large bowl.

3. 3

   In a second bowl, whisk the eggs, oil, buttermilk, and vanilla. Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until smooth.

4. 4

   Divide the batter among the cases and bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until the tops spring back. Cool completely on a rack.

5. 5

   Stir enough green coloring into the lime curd to make it vivid. Cut a 2 cm-wide core from each cupcake, stopping before the base, and spoon in the curd. Trim the removed cake plugs and replace them over the filling.

6. 6

   Beat the butter until creamy, then gradually beat in the icing sugar and milk until fluffy. Pipe or spoon a ring of frosting around each filled center and add a gummy worm so it appears to emerge from the cake.