Easter DIY with kids

(Recipes provided by Hallie Siewert from HallieCakes)

Let’s hop into this spring season! We are bringing you a fun, easy DIY Easter craft idea and cupcake decorating tips your kids are sure to enjoy.

Bunny & Egg Cupcakes

What you’ll need:

››  Favorite Cupcake Recipe

››  Favorite Buttercream Recipe

››  2 Disposable Icing Bags

››  Wilton Grass Tip 233

››  Wilton Tip 32

››  Wilton Green Icing Coloring

››  Wilton Brown Icing Coloring

››  Peeps

››  Jelly Beans

Instructions:

››  Bake and Cool Cupcakes according to your recipe.

››  Color Buttercream Green and fill disposable icing bag with Wilton grass tip 233

››  Color buttercream brown and fill disposable icing bag with Wilton tip 32

››  Using the green buttercream icing bag, pipe the grass buttercream on top of the cooled cupcake. 

››  Use the brown buttercream icing bag and make a small circle on top of the green grass buttercream

››  Fill in the circle with the brown buttercream. 

››  Add jelly beans inside the “nest” and the peep on top of the cupcake.

››  Enjoy!

*Chocolate buttercream may be used instead of brown buttercream! 

 

Bunny Cupcakes

What you’ll need:

››  Favorite Cupcake Recipe

››  Favorite Buttercream Recipe

››  1 Disposable Icing Bag

››  Wilton 1M tip

››  Jelly beans

››  Large Marshmallows

››  Mini chocolate chips

››  Pink Sprinkles

››  Scissors

Instructions:

››  Bake and cool cupcakes according to your recipe

››  Fill a disposable bag with white buttercream using Wilton tip 1M

››  Make a swirl of white buttercream on top of a cooled cupcake

››  For the bunny ears, cut a large marshmallow on the diagonal

››  Press the cut (sticky) side into the pink sprinkles and place it on the cupcake

››  Use 2 mini chocolate chips for the eyes (or make a 3-eyed bunny like Evan did pictured above!) and 1 pink jelly bean for the nose.

››  Enjoy!