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Looking down at three cupcakes with pink, purple, and green frosting, topped with jelly beans and a Marshmallow Bunny Peep.

Easter Basket Cupcakes

Arrange 24 cupcakes into a basket shape with pink and purple rosettes, green grass frosting, jelly beans, and Peeps.
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 24 cupcakes (baked and cooled, from your preferred cake mix)
  • Pink frosting
  • Purple frosting
  • Green frosting
  • Jelly beans
  • 4 Marshmallow Bunny Peeps
  • Piping bags
  • Wilton 1M piping tip (or similar open star tip)
  • Wilton 233 piping tip (or similar grass piping tip)

Instructions
 

  • Bake and Cool Cupcakes:

    Prepare 24 cupcakes using your chosen cake mix per the box directions. Let them cool fully prior to decorating.
  • Arrange Basket Shape:

    Organize the cooled cupcakes into a bowl shape for the basket’s lower part, then arc the top cupcakes to form the handle (reference the provided image).
  • Pipe Pink Handle Rosettes:

    With pink frosting and a Wilton 1M tip (or comparable open star tip), create rosettes on the cupcakes that make up the handle.
  • Pipe Purple Base Rosettes:

    Using purple frosting and the same Wilton 1M tip, pipe rosettes onto the cupcakes that compose the basket’s base.
  • Pipe Green Frosting Grass:

    Employ green frosting with a Wilton 233 tip (or analogous grass tip) to pipe grass on the upper cupcakes: squeeze softly and raise the tip to generate fluffy clumps.
  • Add Pink Blossoms:

    Return to pink frosting and the Wilton 1M tip to apply small pink blossoms around the purple basket base: squeeze gently while holding the tip vertical, then release.
  • Distribute Jelly Beans:

    Distribute colorful jelly beans over the frosting grass.
  • Place Bunny Peeps:

    Set 4 marshmallow bunny Peeps onto the frosting grass, nestled among the tufts.
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