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
Scale
- 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
- Preheat your oven to 350° and line a couple cupcake pans with cupcake liners.
- Mix your cake mix with your eggs, oil, and water.
- Fill your cupcake liners halfway with your cake batter, bake for 15 minutes, and let cool.
- Add a drop of yellow food coloring to your can of frosting, mix well, and scoop into a decorating bag.
- Frost a swirl onto each cupcake.
- 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
- Dip the top of each frosted cupcake into your coconut flakes.
- Now frost an upside down orange triangle onto the center of each cupcake for the beaks. Stick two candy eyes above each beak.