These cute Easter Chick Cupcakes are a quick & easy Easter dessert, fit to feed a crowd! Great for a holiday gathering or as a fun recipe to do with kids.
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Ingredients
1 1/4 cups cake flour
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup buttermilk
For the vanilla buttercream and decorations:
2 cups butter
8-10 cups icing sugar
2-4 Tablespoons cream or milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
Yellow gel food coloring
48 orange star sprinkles
48 Candy Eyes
1 carrot or 24 orange candy-coated chocolate chips
Edible glitter or sprinkles optional
Instructions
For the cupcakes:
Preheat oven to 350F and line a cupcake tray with your chosen liners.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
Place the two eggs in a separate bowl and beat for 30 seconds before slowly adding in the white sugar.
Once the egg and white sugar mixture is light and fully beaten, beat in the vanilla and oil.
Add half of the dry ingredients, mix completely, then add half of the buttermilk. Repeat.
Fill the muffin liners halfway full and bake 12-15 minutes and cool in the pan before removing to a cooling rack.
For the frosting:
Combine the butter, sugar, 2 Tablespoons of cream and the vanilla in a large mixing bowl.
Mix for 2 minutes and adjust the consistency with the addition of more sugar or cream.
Dye the buttercream yellow with a small amount of yellow gel coloring.
Spoon the buttercream into a piping bag and cut off the tip to be at least 1" wide.
Spread some buttercream on the cupcakes with an offset spatula and roll the cupcakes in your choice of edible glitter or sprinkles.
Pipe a big dollop of frosting in the middle of the cupcake, and then a smaller dollop on top to form the chick.
Cut the carrots into slices and trim into small triangles for beaks. Break one point off of each star sprinkle to make the claws.
Add candy eyes, carrot noses and claws to the chick cupcake.
Repeat for all remaining cupcakes.
