We are getting ready for Easter by making cupcakes and decorating them as Easter Bunnies, Chicks, and Nests with eggs! These are fun to let the kiddos help decorate because they are so easy to do once you have everything ready.
I used a box carrot cake mix to make my cupcakes. I did make my own homemade icing, though. Once you make it homemade, it’s hard to use a store bought.
Cream Cheese Icing Recipe
1 stick butter
1 block cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup powder sugar
1/2 tsp lemon juice
Whip together the butter and cream cheese in a mixer until fluffy, add the vanilla, then the powder sugar. Whip on high for a bit, then when almost done, add the lemon juice. Scoop into a container and let chill in the fridge until ready to use.
Decorating
To decorate the cupcakes, you will need shredded coconut. I separated it into a few containers for easy access. To color the coconut green for grass, or yellow for chicks, put about 5 drops of food coloring in the container, seal and SHAKE!
To make bunnies, use plain white coconut, chocolate chips for eyes, a half a pink jelly bean for a nose. I used gel icing to make whiskers, and cut a marshmallow in half for bunny ears. The pink is just a little left over icing with a bit of pink food coloring added.
For the chicks, use yellow colored coconut, chocolate chips for eyes, and an orange Reese’s Pieces for a beak. You can of course substitute for anything you may have on hand to decorate. Gumdrops, gel icing, etc.
To make the nests, toast coconut in an oven until slightly brown. sprinkle on top of an iced cupcake and add egg candy pieces to the top. We also did jelly beans on green colored coconut for grass.
Using these decorations, you can let the kids decorate their own cupcake as they like!
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So cute!
<3 them! I've turned to cupcakes as my cake of choice, too. The kids can help, you can still be creative with them and the obvious reason, portion control!
These are so cute, and really simple enough for my kiddos to make!
How adorable! I prefer homemade frosting too!
I think store bought is so mouth puckeringly overly sweet! This recipe actually has a real cream cheese taste!
Awww those are cute! I love the bunnies best!
Love these ideas! I have a couple of Spring/Easter cupcakes I make. The white bunny one is a new one. I wonder if I can make that on mini-cupcakes … hmmmm.
Those cupcakes are so adorable, especially the bunny!
Cute and simple. Thanks for the Easter inspiration!
Those are adorable, and I think I want to make them for Easter, too! So cute, and the kids can help!
These are seriously the cutest things!
These are the cutest bunny chick cupcakes ever!
These are SO cute! I love them all but especially the bunny!
That bunny cupcake is my favorite. I love how you can be so creative with coconut.
These are seriously adorable!
You did an adorable job! I love all the diff animal you made!
Awww, those are so cute! You really did a great job.
Those are adorable! &I love that they use coconut, because it’s one of my favorite things.
ADORABLE!! I would have never thought to use coconut to give “fur” or “feathers!!”
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