Bat Chocolate Cupcakes

Cup cakes

• 12 patty pans and 2 x muffin trays
• 150 g self raising flour
• 30 g cocoa powder
• 175 g castor sugar
• 175 g Nuttelex Spread
• 3 eggs or egg replacer
• 0.25 tsp vanilla extract
• 75 g dairy free chocolate (grated)

The Choc Frosting

• 1 cup Nuttelex Spread
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups pure icing sugar

Decoration

• 1 packet of googly eyes
• 1 packet of Oreos biscuits

Cupcakes

1. Preheat the oven to 160°C. Line a muffin tins with patty pans.
2. In a large bowl combine the grated chocolate with the flour, cocoa, sugar, eggs, vanilla and Nuttelex. Mix on low until combined.
3. Spoon cup cake mixture evenly into the patty pans.
4. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
5. Transfer the cakes in the trays onto a wire rack and let cool for 5 minutes before removing the cupcakes from the trays to cool completely.

Frosting

1. Cream together Nuttelex, vanilla and cocoa then gradually add icing mixture slowly, continue mixing until all is incorporated.
2. Scoop frosting into piping bag, then pipe onto cooled cup cakes.

Bat detail

1. Carefully cut 12 biscuits in half, and gently insert in the middle of each cupcake to create your bat ears
2. Place 2 x googly eyes on each cupcake.