Easter Basket Cupcakes
Contributed by: Chris WebAdmin. of RecipesNow.com
Fun for the Kids!
Ingredients:
- 1 dozen cupcakes
- 1 can prepared vanilla frosting or homemade buttercream frosting
- 1/2 cup shredded coconut
- 1/2 teaspoon green food colouring
- 1 1/2 tsp. water
- 12 - 81/2-inch long orange or red licorice twists
- 8 ounces Jelly Belly jelly beans in pastel colours.
Directions:
Frost cupcakes generously with white icing, being careful to spread out to the edge of each
cupcake. Bend one twist and insert ends into cupcakes making a basket handle.
Combine water and green food colouring. Combine coconut and toss until the coconut is
bright green. Add more of the water/food colouring mixture to achieve desired colour.
To decorate cupcakes, place about 10 beans all of the same flavour standing up as a border.
Sprinkle green coconut on top of cupcakes. Place in the centre, five Jelly Belly beans in colours
different than the border colour.
Serving Size: Makes one dozen Spring Baskets.