EASY EASTER BASKET CUPCAKES

Easy Easter Basket Cupcakes image

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

Categories Dessert

Time 1h45m

Yield 24

Number Of Ingredients 6

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:

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

Nutrition Facts : Calories 220, Carbohydrate 31 g, Cholesterol 25 mg, Fat 2, Fiber 0 g, Protein 1 g, SaturatedFat 2 1/2 g, ServingSize 1 Cupcake, Sodium 160 mg, Sugar 10 g, TransFat 1 g