Apollinas

Nest Cupcakes

Easter Basket Cupcakes

I had a lovely Easter weekend.  I spent Saturday making all these cupcakes and they were a lot of fun and very easy!  For the sake time, I used boxed cake mix for the chocolate cupcakes and I made buttercream frosting.  I had never toasted coconut before but it was very easy and it made my apartment smell so good.  The hardest part of these cupcakes was tracking down all the candy I needed. I found the robin eggs at CVS, the sour straws at a candy shop and all the other Easter candy at the Giant down the street. 

Buttercream Frosting:

(adapted from allrecipes.com)

For the Nest Cupcakes, I made chocolate cupcakes (box mix), iced with the buttercream frosting, and rolled them in in toasted coconut.  I just followed the directions on the back of the coconut bag to toast.  Then, I topped with the those elusive chocolate robin eggs.  I used lighter colored jelly bean robin eggs for a couple of them.

For the Easter Basket Cupcakes, I made the cupcakes the same way except I used gel food coloring to dye the frosting green.  After icing them, I rolled the cupcakes in sugar and then started decorating.  For the toppings, I used:

• Edible grass in green and pink (found it at Giant, you can see what it looks like here)
• Foil wrapped mini chocolate bunnies
• Jelly beans
• Foil wrapped chocolate eggs
• Gummy bunnies and ducks, also found these adorable Peter Rabbit gummies at Giant:)
• pastel M&Ms
• Sour straws
• Easter cupcake liners that came with toothpicks with rabbits and little chicks on them

I hope you had a wonderful Easter!