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Cute Spring Chick Cupcakes

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  • Author: A Cultivated Nest
  • Category: Dessert

Description

Use your favorite boxed cake mix to quickly create cupcakes that you can decorate and turn into cute spring chick cupcakes! These make a great Easter dessert!


Ingredients

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  • Boxed lemon cake mix (the one I used called for oil, eggs, water)
  • 16oz vanilla frosting
  • 2 cups sweetened coconut flakes
  • Yellow food coloring
  • Orange icing tube
  • Candy eyes
  • Decorating bag
  • Sandwich bag
  • Cupcake liners

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350° and line a couple cupcake pans with cupcake liners.
  2. Mix your cake mix with your eggs, oil, and water.
  3. Fill your cupcake liners halfway with your cake batter, bake for 15 minutes, and let cool.
  4. Add a drop of yellow food coloring to your can of frosting, mix well, and scoop into a decorating bag.
  5. Frost a swirl onto each cupcake.
  6. Scoop your coconut into a sandwich bag and add a drop of yellow food coloring, seal the bag, and use your fingers to distribute your food coloring to evenly color your coconut. Then place the yellow coconut flakes in a small bowl
  7. Dip the top of each frosted cupcake into your coconut flakes.
  8. Now frost an upside down orange triangle onto the center of each cupcake for the beaks. Stick two candy eyes above each beak.