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Easter Cupcake Chicks

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Chick Cupcakes

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)

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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.

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These are best served the day they are made, but store well in the refrigerator overnight until serving.

Makes 20-24 cupcakes.

 

Swiss Butter Cream Recipe
Ingredients
  • 4 egg whites
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 sticks butter, softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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!
  4. Divide your frosting into thirds, one third for the green grass and two thirds for the yellow chicks.

 

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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.

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Comments

  2. Robin Rue (@massholemommy) says

    Those are the cutest cupcakes ever! I love them and my kids would, too!

  3. Catherine S says

    These are so cute and I bet they taste yummy. I need to make cupcakes and surprise the kids on game night.

  6. Ally Swanson says

    These 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!

  10. Amanda Ripsam says

    I 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?

  14. Amanda Love says

    Oh 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.

  17. Christina Strapp Lambert says

    I love these and they seem pretty easy to make. I will have to try these and see how they turn out.

  18. Theresa says

    These 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!

  22. Lisa Rios says

    Lovely & cute! It looks very yummy and delicious. Kids would definitely love this cute Cupcake so much. Thanks a lot for sharing this yummy recipe.

  26. Sarah Phillips says

    These 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!

  29. Lauryn R says

    These 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!

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