Spring Cupcakes- Bird's Nest

I made these yesterday for Easter and thought they were too cute not to blog about. And they are pretty easy too!

Simply pick your favorite chocolate cake recipe and bake the cupcakes, cool. Then make your favorite vanilla butter creme frosting.  I used this one (except I used milk instead of cream). Spread a thin layer of frosting on each cupcake then pipe a circle on each about 1/4-1/2 inch tall. Top with toasted coconut and place 3 jellybeans in each "nest" (I use the Trader Joe's- they use natural colors!).

Enjoy!

How We Celebrated Chocolate Cake Day!

We made chocolate cupcakes, of course!

Started with some good chocolate and tasty ingredients...

Lots of mixing...

Smelled the vanilla (yum).

Tasted the batter.

Made a little mess filling the cups.

"Betty" came out for the frosting.

Frosting in process...

Tasting the frosting.

Max even tried a little.

Spreading the frosting...

Annie's final product: 

30 for our friend's bake sale:

It was a ton of fun, but I really don't want to clean this up...!

Kelley