Easter Basket Cupcakes

These Easter basket cupcakes are a fun, cute, and incredibly easy dessert to make this Spring for all of your Easter festivities! It's a great Easter dessert to make with your kids because they can decorate their own cupcakes! They're perfect as an after-dinner dessert for your Easter meal, or for enjoying throughout the week!

Easy Easter Basket Cupcakes

These absolutely adorable Easter basket cupcakes are super easy to make, and the kids will love getting to decorate cupcakes on their own! Plus, whatever candy isn't used on your cupcakes is fair game for snacking!

My Easter basket cupcakes are made using my homemade white cake recipe with my vanilla buttercream frosting. Top them off with an Easter egg-shaped candy you have on hand or Cadbury shimmer mini eggs!

Make my other fantastic Easter desserts too! Try the Easter Basket Sugar Cookies with coconut and more of these great shimmer eggs or the colorful tie-dye style Easter sugar cookie sandwiches!

🥘 Easter Basket Cupcakes Ingredients

These easy and fun Easter cupcakes are made with my homemade white cake and creamy vanilla buttercream frosting! If you'd prefer, you could use a white cake mix and store-bought icing to save time.

• Homemade White Cake - 1 batch of homemade white cake (see recipe). You can also use a boxed white cake mix if you'd like.
• Vanilla Buttercream Frosting- 1 batch of vanilla buttercream frosting (see my recipe). You can also use your favorite store-bought tub.
• Gel Food Coloring - Green gel food coloring.
• Chocolate Mini Eggs - 1 9 oz bag of Cadbury's shimmer milk chocolate mini eggs.

*Be sure to see the free printable recipe card below for ingredients, exact amounts & instructions with tips!*

🔪 How To Make Easter Basket Cupcakes

This Easter cupcake recipe is as easy as making any other cupcake! The hardest part is piping the grass on top, but you can practice on a paper towel to get it just right. You will need a baking tin, a few mixing bowls, a Wilton piping tip #233, a piping bag, an electric mixer, and a whisk for this recipe.

1 batch of Easter basket cupcakes will make 24 cupcakes. There is plenty to share with the family or to bring to an Easter gathering!

Bake Your Cupcakes

1. Prep. Make your white cake batter per the recipe instructions. Portion the batter into paper cupcake liners in your baking tin. Fill each cupcake liner no more than ⅔ full. You can also use a boxed cake mix if you'd like.
2. Bake. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 15-22 minutes. Check your cupcakes using an inserted toothpick for 15 minutes. The toothpick should come out clean, with no dough clinging to it.
3. Cool and serve. Remove from oven and allow to cool for a few minutes in the baking pan before transferring to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

Make Your Frosting

1. Make frosting. Make your buttercream frosting per the recipe instructions. Mix until smooth and of medium consistency. You can use your favorite store-bought icing to save time if you'd prefer.
2. Add food coloring. Color your frosting using your desired green gel food coloring before decorating the cupcakes. Mix until the color is evenly distributed throughout the buttercream frosting.

Decorate Your Cupcakes

1. Prep. Fit a Wilton piping tip #233 into your piping bag. *If you do not have a piping bag or a piping tip, see the notes in the post for alternative ways to make your 'grass' for these cupcakes.
2. Test frosting. Test your frosting on a piece of parchment paper (or something disposable) to see how the frosting consistency works with your fitted piping tip. Pipe the green frosting by holding it just above the surface at a 90-degree angle, or straight up over the surface.
3. Pipe frosting. Begin squeezing the piping bag and release pressure once you have your desired grass length. Pull straight up and away once pressure is released. Continue to do this over the surface of your cupcakes. Use angled motions when pulling away from the cupcake to give a more natural look to your 'grass'.
4. Add candy. Add three Cadbury shimmer mini milk chocolate eggs to finish each Easter basket cupcake.

Serve these delicious cupcakes after your Easter dinner! If want to make an Easter dessert spread, you could make some Easter fudge-covered Oreos and Easter basket cookies too. Enjoy!

💭 Angela's Tips & Recipe Notes

• I suggest gel food coloring for buttercream frosting as your colors are more accurate.
• Most standard-size cupcakes are done between 15 - 22 minutes when baked at 350ºF (175 ºC).
• Adjust your frosting consistency if needed so that your buttercream reaches a medium thickness.

🌿 How To Pipe Grass Using Wilton Piping Tip #233

Fit your piping tip into a piping bag and fill the bag half full with medium-thickness frosting. Pipe your grass by holding the piping bag at an upright 90-degree angle above your cupcake. The tip should not be touching the cupcake, but just above the cake surface.

Squeeze the frosting out while lifting it slowly away from your cupcake. Once you have enough length on your grass, release your pressure on the piping bag and lift away at an upward angle.

You can lift the piping bag away at a few odd angles, if desired, to give your grass a natural look.

Repeat until you have enough 'clumps' of grass to cover the top of the cupcake. *I always test my frosting and tip combination on a piece of parchment paper prior to piping onto my cupcakes. This helps me to know how much pressure I need for my frosting consistency.

If you use a plastic storage bag, fold one corner back on itself so that you have a 1-inch round end to use as your piping end. Use scotch tape to hold the folded end in place.

Now with either of these options, use a toothpick to poke several holes at the end of your piping bag or storage bag. Test to see how the frosting is piping out. Enlarge holes, if needed, by inserting the toothpick and wiggling it around. Add more holes if needed.

Your grass will pipe out as strands and look different than these cupcakes made using a piping tip, but will still look like lovely grass on the cupcakes!

🥡 Storing

To store these cupcakes at room temperature, place them in an airtight container for up to 24 hours. You can also place the container in the fridge for up to 3 days. I would suggest leaving the frosting off before you place them in the fridge so that the icing doesn't harden too much.

If you are wanting to make cupcakes ahead of time, you can freeze them in an airtight container before you frost and decorate them. Make sure to wrap each cupcake with plastic wrap before placing them in a freezer-safe container.

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