naw, cute, right?
Easter baby chick cupcakes
Ingredients:
- 2 1/4 cups plain flour
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1 cup milk
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
FROSTING:
- 2 cups icing sugar
- cream
- yellow food colouring
- 2 cups coconut
- Brown and orange M&Ms
Method:
1. Heat oven to 180 C. Put paper cases in 24 muffin tins (or halve the recipe and do 12, or bake 12 at a time).
2. In a medium bowl, beat flour, sugar, butter, milk, baking powder, salt, vanilla and egg. Either beat 3 minutes with a mixer, or get that baking bicep out and mix by hand for a few minutes. fill paper cases half full.
3. Bake 15-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool completely on a rack.
FROSTING:
This is the fun part! add tablespoonsful of cream to the two cups of icing in a bowl, until it gets to the desired stage. Some people like runny, I prefer it a little stiff.
2. Add a few drops of yellow food colouring and mix. Here’s one I prepared earlier…
Now for your chick feathers… add 2 cups coconut to a ziplock bag, drop in some food colouring, seal it up and rub it all with your fingers to dye the coconut. Fun!
When cupcakes are completely cool, ice with yellow frosting. Put the coconut in a small bowl, and dip the cupcakes icing-side down into it to completely cover.
Add brown M&Ms for eyes, sticking on with a little frosting for glue. Poke orange M&Ms in for the beak… total cuteness.
Happy Easter barbecue customer…
Recipe adapted from Betty Crocker.
Simply Life says
April 10, 2010 at 11:01 amoh those look perfect!
Justine says
April 10, 2010 at 5:42 pmAwww how adorable (and tasty!)
Camilla Baker says
April 11, 2010 at 1:38 amClassic- They are the cutest cupcake chicks I have seen!
Great blog BTW, I'll be popping in to see what you are creating in your shoebox (from an ex shoebox cook of many years, I have graduated to a boot box!)
uma says
April 11, 2010 at 1:58 amcute cupcakes! all your cake recipes are great..
vincent says
April 11, 2010 at 2:10 pmHello,
We bumped into your blog and we really liked it – great recipes YUM YUM.
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Veggie Mama says
April 13, 2010 at 10:33 amHaha, thanks for all your comments guys! I yearn to someday upgrade to a boot box Camilla… but my not-so-secret wish is for a gumboot warehouse!
Fussy Eater's Mum says
April 20, 2011 at 12:06 pmThose are so cute I’m going to go make them with the Darlings right now for morning tea! You can’t go wrong with good old Betty Crocker.
Veggie Mama says
April 21, 2011 at 3:12 pmI do love Mrs Crocker for basic recipes! So much fun to dress them up though 🙂
vincent says
August 17, 2011 at 3:31 amHello,
We bumped into your blog and we really liked it – great recipes YUM YUM.
We would like to add it to the Petitchef.com.
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enjoy your recipes.
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Camilla Baker says
August 17, 2011 at 3:31 amClassic- They are the cutest cupcake chicks I have seen!
Great blog BTW, I'll be popping in to see what you are creating in your shoebox (from an ex shoebox cook of many years, I have graduated to a boot box!)
Simply Life says
August 17, 2011 at 3:31 amoh those look perfect!
Fussy Eater's Mum says
August 25, 2011 at 5:52 amThose are so cute I'm going to go make them with the Darlings right now for morning tea! You can't go wrong with good old Betty Crocker.
veggiemama says
August 25, 2011 at 5:52 amI do love Mrs Crocker for basic recipes! So much fun to dress them up though 🙂