No sooner did I finish the great birthday cake experiment, and Easter was upon us. My 4 year old is now in preschool (!) and they had a little Easter party. Of course, I signed up for a dessert. But what do you make for twenty 3-4 year olds? Cupcakes, of course!
I hauled my cupcake pan back out (which really does require some hauling, since it is a stoneware pan and weighs about 10 lbs) and make my trusty chocolate cake recipe again, this time in cupcake form. It's the same recipe I used for the birthday cake and you can find it here. This time I baked the cupcakes for about 30 minutes.
I decided to make Easter Basket cupcakes, minus the handles. I skipped the handles (to have been made with Twizzlers) mostly because I ran out of time that morning. Oh, well. Now I have a bag of Twizzlers. Handles or no, these were INCREDIBLY easy to make. And yummy. Twenty preschoolers will agree.
I started off icing the cupcakes with green tinted buttercream icing, the same as I used on the birthday cake. I thinned it out slightly with about a tablespoon of milk. Then I added the "grass." I used green food coloring to tint shredded coconut and then I rolled each cupcake in the coconut.
So, for the "Egg Hunt" cake, I needed another quick dessert for ANOTHER party on the same day. I had leftover green icing and green coconut (what else was I going to do with them?) and leftover M&Ms. So I made a half recipe of chocolate cake, iced the whole thing in pan after it cooled, sprinkled on the coconut and added the "eggs" and that was it. I didn't have to show up at the party empty handed.
I decided to make Easter Basket cupcakes, minus the handles. I skipped the handles (to have been made with Twizzlers) mostly because I ran out of time that morning. Oh, well. Now I have a bag of Twizzlers. Handles or no, these were INCREDIBLY easy to make. And yummy. Twenty preschoolers will agree.
I started off icing the cupcakes with green tinted buttercream icing, the same as I used on the birthday cake. I thinned it out slightly with about a tablespoon of milk. Then I added the "grass." I used green food coloring to tint shredded coconut and then I rolled each cupcake in the coconut.
And to finish them off, I added three Easter M&Ms to each cupcake to look like Easter eggs. You might notice that there is ONE cupcake, on the lower right, that has no coconut. A certain 4 year old decided at the last minute that he does not like coconut (who knew?) so I had to scrape it off and re-ice it for him.
Voila! Easter cupcakes!
So, for the "Egg Hunt" cake, I needed another quick dessert for ANOTHER party on the same day. I had leftover green icing and green coconut (what else was I going to do with them?) and leftover M&Ms. So I made a half recipe of chocolate cake, iced the whole thing in pan after it cooled, sprinkled on the coconut and added the "eggs" and that was it. I didn't have to show up at the party empty handed.
And now that Easter is over, my sweet tooth is ACHING! Too much candy, too many sweets. I think I'll bake something more fruity and less sugary next.
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