Easy Easter Bunny Cupcakes

I’m going to make these cupcakes for my daughters class as they are so quick and easy, and use Peeps, which every child seems to love!

Take a chocolate cupcake (so it looks like dirt) and cut the center out with a knife.

Make sure you leave enough cupcake around the edge so you can ice it with green icing to look like grass.  Save the cupcake that you cut out.


Rough ice around the whole in the cupcake with green icing and then pop the rabbit in the hole. 

Crumble some of the left over cupcake center around the rabbit to look like dirt it’s burrowed up.

Then because I love sprinkles I added a few flowers around the rabbit and a butterfly on it’s ear. 

They were really quick and easy so they make the perfect cupcakes for a class party.

Monster Cupcakes

You don’t have to have anything fancy to have fun with cupcakes, just cupcakes, icing and some candy.  My children are pretty good at icing with a spoon now and we were having a ‘monster’ day, so we decided to make monster cupcakes.

Tootsie roll horns, M&M eyes and banana runt horns created this monster.

M&Ms, banana runts and a candy melt made this friendly looking monster.

Hershey’s kisses and M&Ms made the monster below, but give your children any kind of candy and some icing, and they will come up with wonderfully creative things.

Baby Shower Cookies

My project last weekend was making 7 dozen baby shower cookies for sister of two of my favorite people.  I just about gave myself carpel tunnel with all the piping I had to do, and although some of the cookies weren’t as perfect as I’d have liked, the overall impression was cute.  Most importantly they tasted great.

Making Cupcakes Cute

I saw the suggestion in a Martha Stewart cupcake book to cut out pictures, stick them on toothpicks and use them as cupcake toppers.  I’m very lucky because I have a Cricut so I can custom cut shapes to top my cupcakes with, but you could just as easily cut out pictures from wrapping paper or print out clip art to use instead.  These were for the dinosaur party I hosted recently.

Also at Christmas I couldn’t find any Christmas sprinkles that tasted good enough to serve on cupcakes for adults so I cut out ‘Merry Christmas’ and some Christmas trees and used those as toppers and they looked just a bit different from your regular cupcakes.

Swirly Iced Cupcakes

If you ever have several colors of icing left over and you can’t be bothered to wash out your piping bag, don’t.  If you just keep filling the piping bag without cleaning out the previous color it looks so pretty.  My camera makes the colors look much brighter than they actually were but the cupcakes made a really cute display.

Easter Egg Crispy Treats

I had some crispy treat mixture and some icing left over from different projects so I thought I’d try to make an Easter egg.

I shaped the crispy treat roughly into an egg shape and then I dipped it in candy melts so that it would hold together.  It’s very hard to get the candy melt smooth, but I knew I could cover any bumps with the icing.

Then I just covered the egg shape with different colors of icing using different piping tips.  It looked pretty, but I’m not sure it looked very ‘egg’ like.  I would be a good way for children to practice their piping technique.

Cupcake Nest

I had one little cupcake left over from a batch I’d made and while my daughter and her friend were decorating chocolate crispy nests and chocolate pretzel nests, I decided to try to make a cupcake nest.  I only had a green cupcake left but I would probably have used a vanilla or chocolate cupcake. 

First I cut out the center.

Then I piped a ring of icing around the edge so I’d have something for the sprinkles to stick to, and it would cover the green cupcake.

I put flower and heart sprinkles around the edge, but you could use anything.  Then I filled the hollow in the cupcake with eggs and tried both the oreo truffle chicks on top.  I still think the brown eyed chick is cuter.

My children all fought over who got to eat the cupcake nest, so it was obviously good.

Crispy Treat Nests

I try really hard to make our favorite baking ideas applicable all year round, and Easter nests are one of my favorite things.  I hosted a dinosaur party a couple of weeks ago and was trying to think of a dinosaur themed crispy treat.  I was also in my Easter mode and so nests were on my mind and then I thought why not make ‘pterodactyl nests’.  I made fruity pebble crispy treats as they seem to be all children’s favorites.

But instead of putting them in rectangular cake pan and cutting them out with cookie cutters, I piled a spoonful of the crispy treats into muffin cases. 


Once they were cool I used a spoon to flatten out the center to make a nest shape.  If you try to do that when the crispies are hot, they will just stick to the spoon.  I could have left the nest just like that and filled them with eggs and chicks for Easter, but because it was for a party I needed the nests to be very durable so I could get them to the party and then the children could get them home as favors, without them falling apart.  I melted some white candy melts and used a basting brush to put a layer on top of the nests.

Once it was dry, I turned the nests over and coated the bottom to make them really strong and taste extra sweet.


I piped a ring of icing around the nest and covered in with flower sprinkles to make a pretty dinosaur nest and then I added some big flowers made from mini M&Ms glued onto a mini nilla wafer with icing.

At the party the boys put more jelly beans around their nests to look as if they were built from rocks and they made ‘man eating’ flowers.  We also topped the nests with pterodactyl cookies.  So you can now make Easter nests year round and make them dinosaur, lizard, snake or birds nests.