Bunny Basket Cupcakes

Ingredients and Materials

• 24 baked cupcakes (1 cake mix)
• leaf green frosting - For frosting recipe  click here   Use the small batch variation.
• 1 package of 12 Peeps bunnies
• 1 package of strawberry Twizzlers
• 1 package of Easter Mix Sixlets candy
• Leaf decorating tip #72
• a disposable pastry bag
• round toothpicks

Directions

1. Frost tops of 24 cupcakes with a thin coat of leaf green frosting

• Using a pastry bag and #72 leaf tip, apply frosting "grass" around outside edge of a cupcake and continue filling in the top until the cupcake is covered in frosting "grass". 

leaf tip #72 makes "grass" 

• Repeat until all 24 cupcakes are frosted.

2. Remove Peeps bunnies from the package and separate.

• Place a round toothpick halfway into the bottom of a Peeps bunny. Repeat with remaining Peeps bunnies.
• Center a Peeps bunny over a cupcake, bottom side down, and press into the frosted cupcake. 
• Repeat with remaining Peeps bunnies.

3. Remove 12 Twizzler sticks from the package.

• Carefully slide a toothpick halfway into each end of a Twizzler stick.
• Repeat with remaining Twizzler sticks
• Insert toothpick end of a Twizzler stick into a cupcake beside a Peeps bunny.
• Insert other end of the Twizzler stick into the cupcake on the opposite side of the Peeps bunny. This arch will be the "basket handle" of the Bunny Basket Cupcake.
• Repeat with remaining eleven Peeps bunny cupcakes.

4. Remove tubes of Sixlets candy from the package.

• Open up several tubes of candy and pour the round candies into a small bowl.
• Place 4 candies, two in front - two in back, on each Bunny Basket cupcake

5. Decorate 12 "grass" cupcakes

• Open about 10 tubes of Sixlets candy and pour the round candies into a small bowl.
• Place 5 candies on each cupcake

Now you have 12 Bunny Basket Cupcakes and 12 Easter Egg Cupcakes.