Cupcake Easter Baskets
These cute cupcakes with their mild orange flavor are fun to dress up for Easter. As we raised four sons and a daughter, I prepared many, many school lunches and often added these springtime treats. —Julie Johnston, Shaunavon, Saskatchewan
Reviews
Very cute! Due to food allergies, I had to use a different cupcake and frosting recipe but followed the directions to make them look like a basket. Everyone loved them.
I did not have a positive experience with the frosting. Though it tasted very good, it was extremely runny and despite adding volumes of powdered sugar, unfortunately ended up having to throw it away. Thus, I used prepared frosting. I may have caused this problem by using fat free cream cheese and margarine instead of butter in an effort to reduce fat and make more healthy. Also since I was taking this for a church activity, I used a Funfetti Cake Mix and added the orange zest for moisture and flavor. I decorated the cupcakes just as advised, (excluding the shoe string licorice which I could not find). i also needed more coconut then it called for. I used miniature jelly bellys instead of full size jelly beans. They look absolutely adorable when decorated, and assume they will be tasty. This was a very cute and clever way to dress up a cupcake!
Wonderful recipe! Very thick batter-just beware of that while baking and spooning into pan. I added orange zest to kick it up a notch in the frosting. For the life of me, I could not get the shoestring licorice to stand up, so I just left it out. They still look great without it! This is now one of my favorite base cupcake batters.
They are delicious without the cheese filling things and i decorated the same as you but i made normal cupcakes wiht the decor!!.Awesome recipe!!
very cute, very delicious! i doubled the cupcake recipe and made about 40 cupcakes. i did not double the frosting recipe because of what other raters said about there being enough... and even though i had double the cupcakes there was leftover frosting.on taste, the cupcake was delicious! it went with the frosting, coconut, and jelly beans perfectly! the frosting was better than my old vanilla buttercream recipe.and on looks, it was very cute. easy too assemble, except the handle was a little tricky but it worked. and everybody loved it! 5/5
I made these with my four year old son and we LOVED making them. I just used a store bought cake mix, but did make the frosting and it was so good with it! I cut the frosting recipe in 1/2 also and had enought to frost 24 cupecakes! Thanks for this FUN recipe!
I think your receipe is cute and easy to make. Eighty-six's comments are rude and unnesscary. Thank you for sharing it with everyone.
it was grate.
For many years I have been making my original version of Easter Basket Cupcakes which are prettier and easier to make.
These cupcake easter baskets are so sweet and so easy to make, they're a keeper for sure. I have grandchildren and every one of them looks forward to seeing me at Easter as they know they'll get these cupcakes.