Fun with Cupcakes - Easter 2011

I'm a sucker for Easter and all the pretty pastel colors it brings, it's the perfect time for making cupcakes. This year I experimented with two different kinds. The first one I like to call the "Easter Bunny Surprise" cupcake. It is a vanilla cupcake colored green like grass with vegan jelly beans hidden in the center. I chose to put them in after they baked so that they would come pouring out when you bite in, like the Easter Bunny hid them there for you to find. :) This cupcake is topped with yellow butter cream frosting, sand sugar, a cotton candy "bunny tail" fluff, and a lone jelly bean. They were really fun to make and even more fun to watch people eat.

Next up I took inspiration from Bake It In a Cake (which is a super fun website), and made some Fruity Pebble cupcakes. I made the basic Golden Vanilla cupcakes from VCTOTW, but stirred in about 2 cups full of Fruity pebbles, then topped with butter cream frosting, also from VCTOTW, and dipped into more fruity pebbles.

It was a fun day in the kitchen. The only bummer was that my cotton candy bunny tails starting dissolving as soon as I put them on the cupcakes. So if you ever decide to makes these, I would recommend putting the cotton candy fluff on right before you serve them. or maybe it was the fact that it was about 95 degrees here on Easter...

Easter Bunny Surprise Cupcakes

Fruity Pebble Cupcakes

What fun things did you make this Easter?