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Nest Easter Cupcakes

  • Author: A Cultivated Nest
  • Category: Dessert

Ingredients

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  • White cake mix (calls for oil, eggs, and water)
  • Vanilla frosting
  • 2 cups sweetened coconut flakes
  • Green food coloring
  • Easter peanut M&M’s

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350° and line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners.
  2. In a large mixing bowl whisk together your cake mix, oil, eggs, and water.
  3. Fill your cupcake liners three quarters the way up with your cake batter and bake for 15 minutes.
  4. Let your cupcakes cool and frost with your vanilla frosting.
  5. Using a small mixing bowl, mix together your coconut flakes with a few drops of green food coloring until your coconut is green.
  6. Turn your frosted cupcakes upside down and dip into your green coconut.
  7. Dip the bottom of 3 peanut M&M into your frosting and stick onto the center of each coconut covered cupcake.