You can also bake homemade donuts and decorate them for Easter, or try our other spring dessert recipes for Easter: Gluten Free Raspberry Cream Pie | Aunt Jenny’s Lemon Bars | Berry Fields Cake
DIY Easter Cupcake Decorations
After Easter dinner, it’s a must to have a springy Easter dessert! These spring animal cupcakes can be made and decorated in advance, or decorated as part of an after-dinner activity for the kids (and adults!)
Make an Easter bunny, spring chick, or spring lamb cupcake. We’ve also included instructions for super easy carrot cupcake decorating and easy egg nest decorating (if your chocolate candy eggs can last that long ?
If you’ll be having kids decorate these Easter cupcakes, we recommend prepping the candy melt pieces in advance so they will be hardened and ready to use.
Looking for a delicious Easter cupcake recipe? Try our chocolate carrot cake cupcakes or colorful blue velvet cupcakes.
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How to Decorate Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Supplies:
Decoration Prep:
Chop the shredded coconut into small pieces and place in a bowl.
Melt the white candy melts in the microwave and add to a plastic squeeze bottle. On a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, draw and fill in bunny ear shapes with the melted white chocolate to form ears. Add the pink nonpareil sprinkles right away to the center of the ears. Set aside to harden (at least 10 minutes).
Lightly cover the spaghetti with black food coloring or black edible food marker and set aside to dry. (The food marker is much less messy!)
To Decorate:
Use a knife to frost a cupcake with white frosting and dip in coconut to completely cover.
Pro tip: Use white food coloring to make the white frosting extra white.
Add eyes (mini M&M candies), nose (large pink heart sprinkle), and mouth (pink jimmies sprinkles).
Stick 2 ears into the cupcake at a slight angle. Cut small pieces of spaghetti for the whiskers and push into the cupcake gently. (You can also use just black jimmies sprinkles.)
How to Decorate Spring Chick Cupcakes for Easter
Decoration Prep:
Color the frosting green (cupcake base — can be any color you like), yellow (chick body), dark yellow or orange (feathers), and another shade of yellow (more feathers). You will need decorator bags with the following tips/colors:
Melt a small amount of orange candy melts in the microwave and add to a decorator bag. On a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, pipe the legs/feet for the chick cupcakes. Let harden at least 10 minutes.
To Decorate:
Use a knife to frost a cupcake with green frosting (or whatever color you choose).
Pipe a large mound of yellow frosting using the #1A large round tip, then a smaller mound on top of that using the #12 medium round tip.
Add beak (orange daisy sprinkle) and eyes (black pearl sprinkles).
Pipe small tufts of feathers on top of the chick’s head using #3 tip and #2 tip in orange/yellow.
Carefully stick the orange chocolate legs into the chick’s body.
Gift these to someone in a special handmade treat box! Tutorial here.
How to Decorate Easter Lamb Cupcakes
Pro tip: Use white food coloring to make the white frosting extra white.
Cut a small marshmallow in half and dip the cut side into the pink nonpareil sprinkles to form ears.
To Decorate:
Thinly frost the cupcake with white frosting, using a knife. Pipe an oval mound of frosting, the lamb’s face/head.
Cover the rest of the cupcake with small round circles of frosting.
To flatten the spikes on the frosting dots: dip your finger in water, shake off the excess, and gently push down the spike.
Add ears to head, and pipe on mouth with pink frosting. Add nose (heart sprinkle) and eyes (black pearl sprinkles).
Pipe 3 more circles of white frosting on top of the head.
How to Decorate Carrot Cupcakes
Supplies:
Decorating Prep:
Color the frosting. Place the orange frosting in a decorator bag fitted with #10 medium tip.
Pro tip: Use white food coloring to make the white frosting extra white.
Cut triangular carrot top shape from green candy.
To Decorate:
Frost cupcake with white frosting using a knife.
Pipe on carrot shape with the #10 medium round tip, using circular motion.
Place the green candy carrot top in the orange frosting carrot.
How to Decorate Easter Egg Nest Cupcakes
Supplies:
Decorating Prep:
Place sprinkles into a shallow plate or bowl.
To Decorate:
Frost cupcake with green frosting (or color of your choice) using a knife.
Pipe the frosting around the edge of the cupcake using the #10 medium round tip.
Smooth the edge with an offset spatula
Dip the frosting rim into the sprinkles to make the next. Add candy eggs.
More fun Easter dessert recipes:
Chicks
Bunnies
Lambs:
Carrots:
Eggs
Bunnies Instructions:
Eggs Instructions:
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