Easter Chick Cupcakes
Servings: 24 cupcakes
Calories: 390cal
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups cake flour
- 1 ¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ 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.
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Notes
Calorie count does not include candy decorations.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cupcake | Calories: 390cal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 56mg | Sodium: 222mg | Potassium: 51mg | Sugar: 45g | Vitamin A: 505IU | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 0.2mg
