DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Easter Basket Cupcakes

contributed by Bettina

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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

Instructions:

• 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!