Spring Chick Cupcakes
From karlyn255 14 years ago
- 25 minutes to make
- Serves 20
This treat is modeled on one of the symbols of the season -- baby chicks. With their coconut feathers, nutty beaks, and confectionery details, the cakes aren't just eye candy; they're delicious, too. Martha Stewart does it again.
Ingredients
- •20 vanilla Cupcakes shopping list
- • Buttercream frosting shopping list
- •4 cups sweetened shredded coconut, toasted shopping list
- •1 piece (10 inches) black licorice lace, cut into 40 (1/3-inch) pieces shopping list
- •20 whole almonds shopping list
- •140 red candy-coated licorice pastels (about 1/3 cup), or pieces of snipped red licorice laces shopping list
How to make it
- Bake cupcakes and cool completely.
- When turned upside-down, each cupcake becomes the body of a chick. Spread buttercream frosting on a cupcake to anchor it to the serving plate while you are working.
- Use a small offset spatula to coat the sides thickly with frosting, and then mound more on top to create a dome shape.
- Press toasted shredded coconut into the frosting -- it stands in for fuzzy feathers.
- Hold the plate at an angle while applying the coconut so the excess falls back into the bowl.
- Place eyes (made from snipped black licorice laces) on chicks using tweezers.
- Use a whole almond for the beak and red licorice for the feet and comb; both can be pushed into the frosting by hand.
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Reviewed by 8 people-
cute!!! really creative, good post! 5 to you!
andiecooks
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great grandkids and I will have fun doing these high5
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My grandchildren will love these!!
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