Easter cupcake decorations: How to make Easter bunny and Easter chick cupcakes
These are great fun for kids to make and decorate during the Easter holiday.
Easter cupcake decorations don’t get much more adorable than these Easter bunny and Easter chick cupcake ideas. Use ready-to-roll white icing to create Easter bunnies to sit among spring flowers and Easter chicks emerging from their eggs. With our step-by-step guide, you’ll easily be able to recreate these impressive cupcake decorations. Great as an Easter table display or to wrap up as an Easter gift, these cute Easter cupcakes are a great way to practice your cake decorating skills.
If you’re looking for more Easter baking inspiration, try our Easter cupcake recipes that are topped with buttercream, or go for a showstopper recipe with a tasty Easter lemon pavlova or lemon and rosemary loaf cake.
- Yields:
- 12
- Prep Time:
- 1 hr
- Cook Time:
- 15 mins
- Total Time:
- 1 hr 15 mins
Ingredients
- 50 g
softened butter or margarine
- 50 g
caster sugar
- 1
medium egg
- 50 g
self-raising flour
- 1 tbsp.
apricot jam or glaze
- 200 g
ready-to-roll white icing
Yellow, black, brown and orange food colourings
You will need
A mini-cupcake tray lined with 12 mini cupcake cases, roughly 5cm (2in) in diameter
4.5cm (13⁄4in) round cutter
tiny star cutter
bunny cutter (try Windsor Cake Craft)
Directions
- Step 1Heat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan), mark 4. Place all cake ingredients in a bowl; beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Divide mixture between the cases; bake for 14-15min until golden.
- Step 2Remove from the tin and allow to cool. Brush lightly with apricot jam or glaze.
- Step 3For chick cakes, roll out half of icing as thinly as possible and cut out six circles, about 4.5cm (13⁄4in). Using the point of a knife, make six slits around the icing. Open out petals. Cut six tiny stars and set aside.
- Step 4 Reroll most of the trimmings and colour with yellow food colouring. Roll 6 small balls and place inside the white star-shaped ‘shell’ you’ve created (also cut out a few yellow stars for bunny cakes and set aside). Using a damp paintbrush, paint back of white stars and place on top of the chicks.
- Step 5Roll tiny white eyes and place on to the chicks then paint eyes with a dot of black food colouring. Roll tiny beaks and paint with orange food colouring. Place on the chicks.
- Step 6For bunny cakes, roll out rest of white icing as thinly as possible. Cut out six circles, around 4.5cm (13⁄4in). Colour leftover icing pale brown; cut out tiny bunnies. Add white eyes and paint pupils with black food colouring.
- Step 7Leave to dry for a few hours before pushing into cake tops (cut a slit in icing, if necessary). Paint centres of reserved yellow stars with orange food colouring to look like daffodils and dot around bunnies.
This recipe originally appeared in Prima magazine. Make sure you never miss an issue – subscribe here.
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