Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

11/9/10

Chicken Little Cupcakes

Chicken Little is a cute story about a chicken who thinks the sky is falling because an acorn fell from a tree and hit his head. So, I made chicken cupcakes and acorn treats.

For the acorns, use a donut hole and dip one end in melted chocolate. You could actually use anything you like such as frosting, carmel topping or peanut butter because you are then going to dip that into toffee bits. And, again, you could even use finely chopped nuts. Then, add a small piece of pretzel for the stem. Cute, huh?! These were a big hit at the party!

For the chickens, I used my own cake recipe to make mini cupcakes. I didn't use wrappers because you will be frosting the entire cupcake. For the 'feet' I cut orange jelly candies in half. Honestly, they didn't work very well and if I make these again I would just use orange tic-tacs. I frosted the whole thing with white frosting and rolled it in yellow tinted coconut. Then, piped chocolate frosting eyes and added a peanut for the beak and cinnamon candies for the top.

1/9/09

Easter Cupcakes

This is part of our Easter tradition. My mom used to make the cupcakes with the green coconut 'grass' on top with the jelly bean 'eggs' on top. She even added chenille stems for handles but I never seem to remember that! A few years ago I found a cute idea for bunny cupcakes so we do them both now! To make the bunnies, just frost in white with white coconut. Add mini marshmallows for the nose, M&M's for the eyes and nose. Then, cut a large marshmallow in half and immediatley dip the cut part in colored sugar to form the ears! EASY and so cute for Spring!