Easter Egg Cupcakes

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Easter means color everywhere, so why not in cupcakes as well ! Cream cheese frosting, some coconut and a few Easter Eggs and you have a colorful and delicious sweet treat.

The other day I spoke to a bloggy friend of mine who reckons to make multi-colored cupcakes or any cake is a lot of work.... so not true, I would say using different colors add around 5 minutes to baking your usual cupcakes.

I made a standard vanilla cupcake batter, to which I added 4 different colors. You can of course use any essence to flavor these, strawberry, mint or whatever you prefer.

Easter Egg Cupcakes

{12 standard size cupcakes}

1 cup Sugar

1/2 cup Butter, room temperature

2 Extra-Large Eggs

2 t Vanilla Essence

1 1/2 cup Flour

1 TB Baking Powder

1/2 cup Milk

Red / Blue / Yellow / Green Food coloring

250g Cream Cheese, plain, room temperature

4 TB Butter, room temperature

2 t Vanilla Essence

2 TB Milk

4 - 6 cups Icing Sugar

Few drops Green food coloring

1/4 cup Coconut

36 small Easter Eggs {I used the candy covered chocolate/chewy type}

1.) Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg C (350 deg F) - Spray and line a muffin pan.

2.) Beat the Sugar and Butter together until creamy - add the Eggs and Vanilla - beat until well combined.

3.) Sift together the Flour and Baking Powder - add to the Sugar mixture and beat on low - add the Milk and beat on low until combined.

4.) Divide the batter into 4 smaller bowls - add a few drops of each Food color {add as much or as little as you like, but rather start with less and then increase}

5.) Spoon into the prepared muffin pan - add teaspoonfuls of each color per hole, repeat until all the batter has been used - take a toothpick and roughly give each batter filled hole a swirl or two.

6.) Bake 15 - 20 minutes or until done when a tester comes out clean.

Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack.

7.) Meanwhile make the frosting: Beat together the Cream Cheese, Butter, Vanilla and Milk until smooth - add the Icing Sugar by the cup, whilst beating continuously, until you are satisfied with the consistency - add a few drops of Green coloring and mix until the color is even.

Once the cupcakes are completely cooled - pipe over some frosting, sprinkle Coconut over, with a bit more right on top - form a little "nest" with the coconut and add three Easter Eggs to the top.

Very colorful and the kids will love it !

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