Delicious Cupcake Recipes Ideas For Your Easter
With Easter coming along in a few short weeks, it's time to start thinking about Easter cupcakes. Whether you create them from scratch or use a cake mix, Easter cupcakes should be cutely festive. Decorating Easter cupcakes is part of the fun of that particular holiday, and little ones appreciate them so much more than they do mass produced candy stuffed in baskets with fake grass. Following is a creative cupcake idea that celebrates the rebirth theme of Easter while being appropriately cute.
Easter Hens and Chicks
First of all, make a batch of basic cupcakes using this easy from-scratch recipe:
· 2 2/3 cups sugar
· 1 cup unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
· 2 large eggs
· 2 large egg yolks
· 2/3 cup milk
· 2/3 cup water
· 2 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
· 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
· 1 1/3 cups cake flour
· 4 teaspoons baking powder
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
After preheating the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, fill two 12-cup cupcake pans with paper liners. Lightly spray the tops of the pans and put them on a baking sheet.
Mix the sugar and butter together until creamy, and add the eggs and yolks one at a time. Add vanilla, water and milk and blend until well-mixed and smooth. Whisk flours, baking powder and salt in a bowl and add the mixture to the wet ingredients in three batches and process for two minutes or until the batter resembles the consistency of pancake batter.
Pour the batter evenly into the cups and bake for about 20 minutes or until the tops are golden. Allow them to cool completely before frosting. Canned frosting makes the process go more quickly -- use any type you like, or make a basic creamed cheese and powdered sugar frosting.
Coconut Easter Grass for Cupcakes:
· 2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
· 1 to 2 teaspoons liquid green food colouring
· 1/2 to 1 teaspoon liquid yellow food colouring
This is simple to make, but be careful not to let the food colouring stain your clothing. Toss the coconut or food colouring together in a shallow bowl along with a bit of water and drain after it reaches the desired colour. The mixture can then be placed on the frosted cupcakes as a base for the Easter hens and chicks.
You can then place candy hens, chicks and eggs over the green Easter grass to finish off your cupcakes.
Easter Hens and Chicks
First of all, make a batch of basic cupcakes using this easy from-scratch recipe:
· 2 2/3 cups sugar
· 1 cup unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
· 2 large eggs
· 2 large egg yolks
· 2/3 cup milk
· 2/3 cup water
· 2 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
· 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
· 1 1/3 cups cake flour
· 4 teaspoons baking powder
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
After preheating the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, fill two 12-cup cupcake pans with paper liners. Lightly spray the tops of the pans and put them on a baking sheet.
Mix the sugar and butter together until creamy, and add the eggs and yolks one at a time. Add vanilla, water and milk and blend until well-mixed and smooth. Whisk flours, baking powder and salt in a bowl and add the mixture to the wet ingredients in three batches and process for two minutes or until the batter resembles the consistency of pancake batter.
Pour the batter evenly into the cups and bake for about 20 minutes or until the tops are golden. Allow them to cool completely before frosting. Canned frosting makes the process go more quickly -- use any type you like, or make a basic creamed cheese and powdered sugar frosting.
Coconut Easter Grass for Cupcakes:
· 2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
· 1 to 2 teaspoons liquid green food colouring
· 1/2 to 1 teaspoon liquid yellow food colouring
This is simple to make, but be careful not to let the food colouring stain your clothing. Toss the coconut or food colouring together in a shallow bowl along with a bit of water and drain after it reaches the desired colour. The mixture can then be placed on the frosted cupcakes as a base for the Easter hens and chicks.
You can then place candy hens, chicks and eggs over the green Easter grass to finish off your cupcakes.