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Easter Basket Cupcakes

contributed by Bettina

Ingredients:

  • 1 cake mix (or your own scratch recipe)
  • white icing
  • green food coloring
  • coconut
  • licorice (red or black)
  • jelly beans
  • OPTIONAL:  bunny or chick toothpicks

Directions:

  • Make cupcakes according to package directions.
      
  • Ice the cupcakes.  You may want to color the icing green first.
      
  • Use dyed green coconut flakes to make 'grass' and sprinkle over green or white icing.
      
  • Then use a red (or black) piece of stick licorice, cut in half lengthwise to make the handle.
      
  • Bend it and stick ends into cupcake. 
      
  • Put 2-3 Jelly Beans in the 'grass' and for even more festive cupcakes, get some bunny or chick toothpicks from a party store and insert into the cupcake as well!

  

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