I can't believe it is only a few days until Easter! Today we are sharing these super cute and oh so easy Easter Chick Cupcakes! They are the perfect addition to an Easter dessert table.
Easter Chick Cupcakes
Ingredients needed to make Easter Chick Cupcakes
1 Box Cake Mix
Butter Cream Frosting
Yellow Sugar Sprinkles
Chocolate Chips
Easy Butter Cream Frosting Recipe
Ingredients needed for Butter Cream Frosting
5 tablespoons salted butter
5 tablespoons shortening
¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk
How to make Butter Cream Frosting
1. Beat butter and shortening together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color.
2. Beat the vanilla extract into the butter mixture. Add sugar, one cup at a time, beating on medium speed until fully incorporated.
3. Add milk, one tablespoon at a time, beating on high until fully incorporated and you have frosting.
How to make Easter Chick Cupcakes
1. Prepare Cupcakes according to box cake mix instructions
2. Using the Buttercream frosting recipe dye your frosting with yellow food coloring until you reach the desired color. Save a small amount and dye that a bright orange.
3. Frost the entire cupcake with yellow frosting, and dip into yellow sugar sprinkles. Add chocolate chips to make the eyes. You can also add a dab of white frosting to make the eyeball detail.
4. Using a rosette-frosting tip make “chick wings” on the sides and then sprinkle a small amount of the yellow sugar sprinkles on top. Then use a small amount of your orange frosting to make a beak and feet for your chick.
Seriously how cute are these!
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Easter Chick Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcake Ingredients
- 1 box cake mix
- Yellow Sugar Sprinkles
- Chocolate Chips
Butter Cream Frosting Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons shortening
- ¾ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups Confectioners Powdered Sugar
- 2 tablespoons Milk
- 5 Tablespoon salted butter
Instructions
Butter Cream Frosting Instructions
- Beat butter and shortening together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color.
- Beat the vanilla extract into the butter mixture. Add sugar, one cup at a time, beating on medium speed until fully incorporated.
- Add milk, one tablespoon at a time, beating on high until fully incorporated and you have frosting.
- Dye your frosting with yellow food coloring until you reach the desired color. Save a small amount and dye that a bright orange.
Cupcakes
- Prepare Cupcakes according to box cake mix instructions
- Frost entire cupcake with yellow frosting, and dip into yellow sugar sprinkles. Add chocolate chips to make the eyes. You can also add a dab of white frosting to make the eyeball detail.
- Using a rosette-frosting tip make “chick wings” on the sides and then sprinkle a small amount of the yellow sugar sprinkles on top. Then use a small amount of your orange frosting to make a beak and feet for your chick.
Kitchen Tools
- Muffin Pan
Daisy
Awe, these are too cute! I want to make these for my four year old. I know that he would love them!
Robin Gagnon
These are adorable and something even the pastry decorating challenged like myself could achieve.
Jeanette
This are ADORABLE. My son loves to bake. These are ones that he can decorate on his own and come out awesome! We might just do these cupcakes this weekend when we have company coming over.
Travel Blogger
those are cute. we will have to try them next year 🙂
Scott
Those turned out so nicely! I tried making the deviled egg chicks this year. They didn't turn out so well...
Anne
The cupcakes are adorable! I love how easy they are to decodécor