Fun Easter Recipes - Easy Easter Basket Cupcakes

Easy Easter Basket Cupcakes 

Celebrate Easter with these adorable cupcakes decorated with candy decors to look like tiny baskets.

By: Signature Brands 

 

Ingredients:

• 1 package Betty Crocker™ No Fade™ Easter paper baking cups
• 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ yellow cake mix
• (Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box)
• 2 cans (8.4 oz each) Betty Crocker™ cloud white decorating cupcake icing
• 2 tablespoons Betty Crocker™ decorating decors pastel green sugar
• 1 bottle Betty Crocker™ decorating decors pastel sequins or other pastel decors

Steps:

#1 Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

 

#2 Using star tip, pipe cupcake icing on top of each cupcake; spread evenly. Sprinkle with green sugar. 

#3 To make nest on top of each cupcake, pipe icing in circle, 2 layers high. Fill each nest with about 1/2 teaspoon pastel sequins; sprinkle additional sequins around nest.