Easter Basket Cupcakes #SundaySupper

Spring is here and I am JUMPING FOR JOY! Phew – the long winter is over. As the leaves start budding on the trees, I’m looking forward to the smell of tulips and daffodils, wearing flip-flops, eating Easter lemon cookies and spring vegetables. What are you looking forward to?

This week’s #SundaySupper is being hosted by Alaiyo-Kiasi-Barnes over at Pescetarian Journal and it’s all about sharing Easter and Passover Recipes. So, with sunlight shining through my window and birds chirping in the trees, I was inspired to bake up something Spring-like and fun: Easter Basket Cupcakes.Your kids will LOVE THESE! And remember, when your done baking cupcakes with me, check out the other recipes listed below: #SundaySupper is made up of a group of talented food bloggers who come together to inspire Sunday family dinner — you won’t want to miss what they are bringing to the table!

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These cupcakes are moist and delicious.

The icing is easy to make, sweet and decadent.

They are a little dose of spring on this Easter Day! Enjoy!

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First, make your cupcakes. I baked them in an unlined muffin pan then transferred them to these pretty little paper cupcake liners.

Next, make your icing by combining white icing white shredded coconut and food coloring. We chose pink because it’s Spud’s favorite color. Once your icing is mixed, lay out the decorating ingredients and get started!

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Next, add a little bit of icing on opposite sides of the cupcake and place it back into the paper liner. This is were you will be attaching the handles.

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Next, liberally spread the icing over the top of the cupcake. If you’re an icing person ( like myself), lay it on heavy! Seriously, don’t be shy!

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Next, add the candy to the top. I used eggs and jellybeans but feel free to use whatever floats your boat.

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Finally, attach the licorice handles by pressing them into the sides of the cupcakes. Voila! Easy peasy and adorably yummy!

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Clearly I had a lot of fun putting these together and couldn’t stop taking pictures of them! Enjoy!

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Easter Basket Cupcakes

Cupcakes: You could cheat it out and use a box-mix as well.
Ingredients:

1 cup white sugar
2 sticks of butter
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ¾ tsp. baking powder
½ cup milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease and flour a muffin pan
In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter.
Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and then add the vanilla.
In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking powder then add them to the creamed mixture.
Finally stir in the milk until well combined and the batter is silky & smooth.
Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Cupcakes are done when the spring back from your touch.

Icing:
Ingredients:

1 container vanilla icing
2 cups shredded coconut
3-4 drops food coloring of choice (I used red to get pink)

Directions:

In a medium bowl, combine icing, coconut and food coloring.
Stir until well combined, adding more coconut or coloring as needed.

Pulling it all together:
Ingredients:

Licorice
Easter Eggs
Jelly Beans

Directions:

Frost the cupcakes with the coconut frosting then use licorice for the handles.
Use jellybeans, Easter eggs or other treats to “fill” the baskets.
Store loosely covered.

More Decorating Suggestions:

Use foil or fancy cupcake liners like the ones in my picture.
To make the licorice handles the same size; use the handle from the first basket to measuring out the rest.
Red licorice or thicker licorice makes nice handles as well.

#SundaySupper bloggers have some delicious Easter/Passover recipes for you to check out and cook up so be sure to take a look at the line-up below. Happy Spring!