McVitie’s Chocolate Digestive Cupcakes

mcvitie's chocolate digestive cupcakes
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McVitie’s Chocolate Digestive Cupcakes; little fluffy brown sugar cakes topped, swirled with chocolate buttercream frosting and topped with McVitie’s Chocolate Digestive Nibbles!

They are regularly voted the UK’s favourite biscuit, chocolate or otherwise.

They are perfect with a cup of tea or cold glass of milk, in a lunchbox, in your rucksack, or just eaten while standing in the kitchen deciding what you can be bothered to make for your dinner.

mcvitie's chocolate digestive cupcakes

McVitie’s Chocolate Digestives are a British staple, tempting to all ages, and were invented in my home country of Scotland less than a hundred years ago. Apparently, in our cold little island nation, we eat 71 million packets of McVitie’s chocolate digestives in the United Kingdom every single year, which works out as us devouring an average of around 52 biscuits per second. Now that is a LOT of biscuits!

mcvitie's chocolate digestive cupcakes

Chocolate Digestives are still somewhat drowned out in their online presence, however, by big American brands such as Oreo or emerging European brands like Lotus. With one swift Pinterest search you can find THOUSANDS of Oreo-based recipes, and almost as many using Lotus’ Biscoff biscuits and spreads. Our humble Digestive biscuit garners far less results.

mcvitie's chocolate digestive cupcakes

Today I’m turning this fact on its head, and after experiencing just how delicious a Chocolate Digestive inspired recipe (like these McVitie’s Chocolate Digestive Cupcakes) can be, I’ll probably be doing it again very soon!

These McVitie’s Chocolate Digestive Cupcakes are so simple but so perfect.

mcvitie's chocolate digestive cupcakes

Fluffy little cakes made with brown sugar, to mimic that caramelised but wholesome Digestive taste, using a little wholemeal flour can help with this too! The cakes are swirled with some wonderfully fluffy chocolate buttercream frosting, flavoured only with some regular cocoa powder rather than made too rich with melted chocolate. On top, you’ll find either some crumbled shards of Chocolate Digestive or a few inviting chocolatey bites of Chocolate Digestive Nibbles. The Nibbles are great because they don’t go soft in the frosting over time like the regular Chocolate Digestives can, also they have a higher chocolate-to-biscuit ratio, which makes me happy.

mcvitie's chocolate digestive cupcakes

I brought these cupcakes in to my office for a charity bake sale, and they were all snapped up pretty quickly. People LOVE a hybrid of their favourite treats!

mcvitie's chocolate digestive cupcakes

To make these McVitie’s Chocolate Digestive Cupcakes, simply follow the recipe below!

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2 Replies to “McVitie’s Chocolate Digestive Cupcakes”

  1. You don’t actually use digestive biscuits…..?

    1. Hi Millie – you’re absolutely right! As the post says, these cupcakes are an ode to the flavour of the classic biscuits, with a hint of the real thing of the Nibbles on top.

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