Have fun with these adorable Easter Cupcakes this holiday season.
Ingredients:
Start with your favorite cupcakes, baked, cooled and ready to frost! We used Pillsbury Funfetti box mix.
Swiss Butter Cream Recipe
4 egg whites
1 cup sugar
3 sticks butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
Frosting Directions:
In a small pan on the stove, mix egg whites and sugar together with a whisk. Using medium to low heat, constantly heat and whisk until the sugar is dissolved and no longer grainy. It may bubble or get foamy and frothy, that’s okay. Remove from heat and let cool.
Place the egg white and sugar mixture in a mixing bowl. Add vanilla. Whisk until it turns white and doubles in size, ours took about 5 minutes.
Add butter to the mixer one stick at a time, beating well after each stick so it is combined. Once all butter is added, whip on medium high speed (we used 8) until a frosting consistency is obtained. Be patient, it took us about 7 minutes to whip it! The process begins with a shiny, almost royal like frosting and then moves into curdled milk, followed by thick ricotta and then all of the sudden you’ll have beautiful butter cream!
Divide your frosting into thirds, one third for the green grass and two thirds for the yellow chicks.
Chick Ingredients:
Wilton Tip 233 for grass and decorator bag
Decorator bag with round opening or you can add a large solid tip to it (Try Wilton 1A)
Wilton Gel Color Lemon Yellow (chick)
Wilton Gel Color Leaf Green (grass)
Wilton Sparkle Gel in Black (eyes)
Orange Chocolate Covered Sunflower Seeds (beak)
Color your small batch of frosting green for grass using green gel color. Place into a piping bag with Wilton Tip 233, set aside.
Color the large batch of frosting yellow for the chicks. Place into a piping bag with a large open end, or use a large solid tip, set aside.
On a clean, flat surface, place cupcakes. Using the green frosting and tip, create a grassy nest under the chick by continuously piping two layers of frosting on the cupcake.
To pipe the chick, press a large dollop of frosting on top of the green grass. Follow with a smaller, dollop, creating a head.
Finish decorating the chicks with two dots of black sparkle gel for eyes and an orange sunflower seed for a beak or an orange jelly bean.
These are best served the day they are made, but store well in the refrigerator overnight until serving.
Makes 20-24 cupcakes.
- 4 egg whites
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 sticks butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla
- In a small pan on the stove, mix egg whites and sugar together with a whisk. Using medium to low heat, constantly heat and whisk until the sugar is dissolved and no longer grainy. It may bubble or get foamy and frothy, that’s okay. Remove from heat and let cool.
- Place the egg white and sugar mixture in a mixing bowl. Add vanilla. Whisk until it turns white and doubles in size, ours took about 5 minutes.
- Add butter to the mixer one stick at a time, beating well after each stick so it is combined. Once all butter is added, whip on medium high speed (we used 8) until a frosting consistency is obtained. Be patient, it took us about 7 minutes to whip it! The process begins with a shiny, almost royal like frosting and then moves into curdled milk, followed by thick ricotta and then all of the sudden you’ll have beautiful butter cream!
- Divide your frosting into thirds, one third for the green grass and two thirds for the yellow chicks.
These cute cupcakes are so much fun to make and share. They’re perfect for an Easter dinner or a kid’s farm-themed birthday party.
Heather D. (@GirlGoneMom) says
March 19, 2015 at 2:09 pmOh my gosh these are perfect! You make it look so easy.
Robin Rue (@massholemommy) says
March 19, 2015 at 4:58 pmThose are the cutest cupcakes ever! I love them and my kids would, too!
Catherine S says
March 19, 2015 at 5:44 pmThese are so cute and I bet they taste yummy. I need to make cupcakes and surprise the kids on game night.
Tough Cookie Mommy says
March 19, 2015 at 6:33 pmThese cupcakes are so adorable. I love the Easter colors of the frosting and how yummy they look.
Ann H says
March 19, 2015 at 6:34 pmSo cute! Thank you for sharing!
Ally Swanson says
March 20, 2015 at 4:50 amThese are sooooo adorable! I love this! You are so creative! I am absolutely going to attempt to make these! These look so cute and delicious, I have to at least try to make them!
Alice Chase says
March 20, 2015 at 5:48 amThese easter chick cupcakes are adorable. You did a great job and I love the easy step by step.
Kerry Kilmister says
March 20, 2015 at 10:40 amThank for the recipe and review. mmy kids will love making these.
Liz Mays says
March 20, 2015 at 1:48 pmHaha, these cupcakes are the best! I love that little friend sitting there. Great Easter idea.
Amanda Ripsam says
March 20, 2015 at 2:43 pmI can see myself making the cute cupcakes for my 7 year old daughter Bella. Bella and I love watching cupcake wars and this would be like one of those cupcakes we see on Tv. Do you watch cupcake wars at all ? it’s on netflix?
Lesley says
March 20, 2015 at 2:50 pmThose are really cute spring cupcakes. You did a great job decorating those little chicks on top.
Ellen Stafford says
March 20, 2015 at 3:07 pmThese are fab! Love them
celebbabylaundry says
March 20, 2015 at 3:14 pmThese little cupcakes are so cute, I absolutely love the little chicks on top!
Amanda Love says
March 20, 2015 at 5:11 pmOh I just want to gobble those up. Those look actually almost too good to eat. That’s quite a bit of frosting and the first thing the kids would eat including me.
Pam says
March 20, 2015 at 5:30 pmThese turned out seriously so cute! I need to make these for our family Easter dinner.
Amber NElson says
March 20, 2015 at 7:25 pmThose are perfect for Easter! Very cute and look easy to make!
Christina Strapp Lambert says
March 20, 2015 at 8:05 pmI love these and they seem pretty easy to make. I will have to try these and see how they turn out.
Theresa says
March 20, 2015 at 9:14 pmThese are the cutest! I am terrible when it comes to food decoration, but with your guide, even I could probably makes these and have them look 1/2 way decent!
Maureen @ A Debt Free Stress Free Life says
March 21, 2015 at 4:03 amThese have to be the most adorable cupcakes I have ever seen.
Mama to 5 BLessings says
March 21, 2015 at 7:28 amThose are super cute! I bet my kids would love these!
Janell Poulette says
March 21, 2015 at 6:21 pmThese are so cute! My kids will love to make these.
Lisa Rios says
March 21, 2015 at 10:03 pmLovely & cute! It looks very yummy and delicious. Kids would definitely love this cute Cupcake so much. Thanks a lot for sharing this yummy recipe.
Ann Bacciaglia says
March 22, 2015 at 6:34 pmThese are so adorable!. I will have to make some for the kids for Easter. I hope mine turn out as great as yours.
anita says
March 30, 2015 at 3:38 amThis is really cute and looks delicious! It also seems easy to make at home.
Lyndsey says
March 30, 2015 at 8:52 amI love how cute these are!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Sarah Phillips says
December 22, 2015 at 1:55 pmThese are so cute & look absolutely delicious! I love that these are fairly easy to make as well. Great idea and perfect for Easter…or any Spring party!
Sara Zielinski says
March 14, 2016 at 12:10 pmThis is an extremely cute chicken cupcake. I love these.
lisa says
April 11, 2017 at 2:12 pmThese are so cute. It’d be a nice treat for school.
Lauryn R says
April 11, 2017 at 6:04 pmThese chick cupcakes are absolutely adorable and perfect for Spring/Easter! 🙂 I didn’t know it could be so easy to make adorable edible chicks like this. 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing!
maleficent says
April 15, 2017 at 3:44 pmthese are super cute. i wish you were coming to our easter
Deb Pelletier says
December 1, 2017 at 1:43 pmGreat idea for a Easter lunch treat and cute too. Looks yummy.