Easter Bunny Cupcakes are made with white cake mix, a sweet buttercream frosting, sprinkles and an adorable milk chocolate bunny on top.
I know it sounds crazy but Easter is less than a month away! Time to get the kids their Easter outfits, make some brunch plans and enjoy some Easter inspired desserts like these cute cupcakes. They really are the perfect addition to an Easter tablescape or family gathering.
Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Easter Bunny Cupcakes start with a box of white cake mix! So easy- just add some milk, butter and eggs to the mix to create a delicious, moist cupcake that tastes like it came from a bakery. The buttercream frosting is a butter/vegetable shortening blend to form a stable, pipable frosting so the “grass” has a lot of dimension and holds up.
Tips & Tricks
All About That Buttercream!
A pipable buttercream is very important to make perfect “grass”. The frosting should be stiff but not so much that it hurts your wrist to decorate with. I like to use the combination of butter and vegetable shortening to create that stiffness. Add the vanilla extract and then the confectioners sugar in increments until everything is combined. You should be left with a very thick frosting that will be needed thinning out. 1 teaspoon of water beat into the frosting should do this.
Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 box cake mix
- 1 cup whole milk
- 3 eggs
Buttercream Frosting
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups confectioners sugar
- green food dye
- water
Garnish
- confetti sprinkles
- Lindt extra small chocolate bunnies
- Whopper Robin Egg chocolates
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place 1/2 cup softened butter into mixing bowl, use a hand or stand mixer to beat butter until creamy.
- Add cake mix, followed by milk and beat.
- Add eggs, one at a time.
- Place cupcake liners into muffin pan and fill each 3/4 full of cake batter.
- Cook for 15-18 minutes.
- Remove cupcakes from oven and let cool.
- Begin frosting. Place 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup vegetable shortening into a mixing bowl. Use a hand or stand mixer to beat until creamy.
- Add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and the 4 cups of confectioners sugar into bowl in increments until fully blended.
- Add green food coloring until at desired color.
- Add a pinch of water if the frosting is too thick. Start with a teaspoon of water to thin it out but you want this frosting to be thick and pipable.
- Fill a pastry bag with the frosting with a #233 tip for grass. Decorate each cupcake.
- Add some confetti sprinkles and a chocolate bunny on each. You can even make some cupcakes with a couple Whopper Robin Eggs int he center instead of a bunny.
This years Halloween Bash is a kid-friendly event! I created really simple recipes for you to copy that both kids and adults are going to love and drink choices that will please the entire crowd. Have you ever had a Bloody Shirley Temple? They are bloody good and I am sharing just how to make them. My first stop when throwing a great party is Walmart to grab all the goodies. Walmart has all the Halloween decor, costumes, food and drinks you could possibly need. Print out this 
For a limited time you can find seasonal 7UP, A&W®, Sunkist®, Squirt® and Canada Dry® Minicans with your favorite characters, like Johnny or Mavis, available at Walmart on the beverage aisle. These minican beverages are the perfect size for a kids treat and you can create so many frighteningly good recipes with all the great flavors.
One of my favorite uses for 7UP is in cake mix! 7UP makes cake so moist and adds just a hint of flavor to a basic white cake. You need to give it a try for sure! I always used 7UP in the frosting and adding some freshly squeezed lemon and lime giving the cupcake a really subtle flavor that works well. Since it is Halloween, we had to dress these cupcakes up with some sprinkles, a red gel for fake blood and a gumball eyeball.
Start off by adding butter, eggs, sour cream, a box of cake mix and International Delight® Almond Joy™ coffee creamer into a mixing bowl. Beat with a hand or stand mixer until thoroughly mixed. Pour the batter into your cupcake liners filling each 3/4 full. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. The house is going to smell crazy good as these cupcakes bake with the smell of coconut and chocolate!
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Every once in awhile, you just need to bake up something extra girly and fun! These Bubblegum Cupcakes would be perfect for a birthday party for a girl of any age. Decorate with really fun sprinkles and a big bright pink gumball on the top and we are ready to PAR-TAY!
Bubblegum Cupcakes
To celebrate the new school year starting, we held an extra special family movie night! I decided to amp up our movie night with these Popcorn Cupcakes along with our regular movie night sidekicks of Pop Secret and our family favorite, Lance Crackers. I stopped by my local Walmart to pick up all the movie night goodies and pre-order my copy of 
The Walmart Checklist:
Begin these Popcorn Cupcakes by preheating the oven to 350 degrees. Mix the butter, vanilla extract, sour cream and eggs together. I used 2 egg whites and one egg with yolk to a fluffier cupcake. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in separate bowl and combine all ingredients together. Fill your cupcake liners half full and bake for 20 minutes. Note that you want to only fill the cupcake liners about halfway because we need room for the freshly popped popcorn on top.
Now, time for a preview of Captain Underpants and a night of great movies with the family!
Red velvet cake and no extra work? Wait, what? If you have made a red velvet cake or two in your life, then you understand how it takes a little extra time and effort to make a red velvet cake. I actually made this recipe twice. The first time I made a red velvet cake from scratch. The cupcakes turned out amazing but this is Simply Made Recipes, not I Love Being in the Kitchen for 10 Hours Baking All Day. With that said, these cupcakes are from a box mix with a few extra ingredients added.
I had these Red, White and Blueberry Cupcakes completed start to last blueberry garnish in about an hour. Boo-yah! I whipped up a really simple cream cheese and blueberry filling for the center of the cupcakes that is optional. The filling adds a little extra flavor and fun little surprise! However, these cupcakes would be absolutely perfect without. So, if you are iffy about the filling, leave it out. No problem.
I went back and forth trying to decide of I wanted to make a fresh blueberry compote for the filling or make it creamy. I went with the cheesecake type flavor and texture because it is delicious! Duh. Also, much quicker and easier. In the photo above, you can see how I placed a little bit of red velvet batter on the bottom of the muffin pans and then just a glob of cream cheese filling on top. Yes, a glob is a very technical term. The cream cheese will weigh itself down a bit and the cake mix will expand and cook over the top of the cream cheese mix so you don’t need to be all crazy trying to get the batter perfect. I say that from experience. 
Let’s talk about how to make an incredible red velvet cake mix from a box. Here are my big tips to make it perfect:
I had to make a cream cheese frosting to pair with the red velvet because the two are just meant for each other. Cream cheese frosting is probably the easiest frosting to make. Take 8 ounces of cream cheese and a stick of butter. Blend the two with a hand mixer until nice and creamy. Then add in your confectioners sugar and vanilla extract and blend until it has a nice thick consistency. Add in a cup at a time of the confectioners sugar until the frosting is just right. You know it is done when you can take a spoonful and tip it upside down without it budging. You want it to be thick and stand up.
Any tip can be used for decorating. With cupcakes, I prefer the large or extra large frosting tips because they make the cupcakes look really pretty and full. Add a few fresh blueberries on top to finish of the look.
You may certainly buy the funfetti cake mix and follow the normal directions and just opt out of the sprinkles within the cake itself. I like adding my own sprinkles however because it is more colorful.
