PEEPS Easter Cupcakes! Create Mini Easter Basket cupcakes
A special thanks to PEEPS for sending us a gift basket full of peeps to aid in the creation of our Mini Easter Basket PEEPS cupcakes Recipe. This post may contain affiliate links; though all opinions are our own.
PEEPS Mini Easter Basket Cupcakes
You all know I absolutely love Easter. And with Easter comes baking! Now I told you about our super fun (laid thickly with sarcasm) Spring break. Full of snow and cold. So we turned to baking to brighten up our vacation. Among all the goodies we created such as our Sugar free Soft serve sorbet, Chocolate Raspberry no bake cheesecake bars, bacon wrapped stuffed jalapenos and finally rounding off the weekend with PEEPS Easter cupcakes!
But these are no ordinary PEEPS Cupcakes. These are actually mini Easter basket cupcakes! Last year we made a Kit Kat Easter Basket cake. It was such a hit; that this year I wanted to do something a little more single serving style. So I gathered up all the trimmings and got started.
PEEPS Easter Cupcakes! Create Mini Easter Basket cupcakes
Ingredients
- Chocolate Cake mix
- Bright colored Silicone baking cups
- Edible Pixie Dust
- Whipped Frosting
- PEEPS
- Jelly Beans
- Mini Robins Eggs
- licorice -Red vines and Green Apple Pull N' Peel
- Colored Coconut flakes- coconut flakes with 1-3 drops food coloring in ziplock bag and shake.
Instructions
- Bake Chocolate cake mix into cupcakes in the bright silicon baking cups
- Let cool thoroughly
- Mix up Whipped Frosting in color of choice
- Using Wilton Dessert Decorator Plus frost the cupcakes
- Garnish with colored coconut Flakes
- Sprinkle with Edible Pixie Dust
- Add your choice of PEEPS onto the cupcakes
- Garnish with Jelly beans and mini robin eggs
- Insert each end of licorice in between the cupcake and the Silicone baking cup; on opposite sides to create the Easter Basket handle.
I used fun bright colored Silicon baking cups. I did this for a few reasons.
- They are super easy to use.
- They are reusable so it saves money.
- I liked the brighter colors.
- The cupcakes stick to the silicon baking cups less than to paper; thus making it a lot easier to add in the licorice Easter Basket handle.
- They are just so much cuter than paper when it comes out of the oven!
But if you don’t want to use silicon baking cups; you may be able to get away with using paper cupcake liners. Just make sure they are the nice quality ones. The cheap ones won’t look so good after baking.
After you bake your cupcakes allow them to cool completely. You don’t want the frosting to melt.
You can frost each cupcake however you choose. I did a few with a swirl pattern. And others with more of a grassy pattern in the frosting. It’s all up you to.
Then you just start decorating. I garnished each cupcake with some colored coconut flakes to represent the grass in the Easter baskets. Then added Edible Pixie dust sprinkles for fun. Then add the PEEPs of your choice. There are so many choices; that may be the hardest part of the entire PEEPS cupcakes process. They have
- Chocolate mousse flavored marshmallow bunnies
- Large marshmallow bunnies
- Chicks in a hollow milk chocolate egg
- Chocolate covered marshmallow chicks
- Peepsters
- sugar free marshmallow chicks
- Party cake flavored marshmallow chicks
- traditional marshmallow chicks in a vast variety of colors like yellow, blue, green, orange, pink, and purple.
- Traditional Marshmallow bunnies in a vast variety of colors like yellow, blue, green, orange, pink, and purple
- Chocolate dipped marshmallow chicks
- Chocolate dipped mousse flavored marshmallow chicks
The options are quite vast. So pick up your favorite PEEPS for these adorable mini Easter Basket Cupcakes.
Once the PEEPS are in place; begin garnishing with the mini Robins Eggs and Jelly Beans.
Finally the last step is the Easter Basket handle. I used Red vines and Twizzlers Green Apple Pull n’ Peel. Why? Because they are my favorite licorice. And they look cool. No other reason.
This is where using the silicone baking cups really comes in handy. Because you can gently wiggle the licorice in between the cupcake and the baking cup. Without having to mess up the cupcake. And it sits perfectly in place.
And now you have adorable Mini Easter basket PEEPS cupcakes to share at your Easter party! Just make sure no one throws away the silicone baking cups. Cause remember; they are reusable!
Want more fun ideas on how to incorporate PEEPS this Easter Holiday? Check out our fun Kit Kat Easter Basket tutorial. You can also follow our PEEPS Creations Pinterest board! All Peeps from all across the internet!
If you enjoyed our PEEPS Easter Basket Cupcakes; be sure to PIN it and share with your friends.
How do you enjoy PEEPS on Easter?
Those are super cute and I am all for making things fun & festive with Peeps. I have an early Easter celebration this weekend because my hubby, kids & I will be traveling over the actual holiday and since I signed up for a dessert, I might attempt these 🙂
Those are cute, festive, and colorfull. I love that you incorporated the Peeps into them too, what a fun way to use those.
We are big fans of PEEPs in my house. Too cute and too delicious. I love what you did with these cupcakes! I think it has inspired me for a moms group meeting we are doing next week! I may treat everyone to some PEEPS!
Love these Easter Cupcake, so cute. I love how you used licorice for the basket handles
OMG those are so adorable! They look so simple too! I will have to make a batch for my girls, they will get a kick out of them! Thank you for sharing!
Wow, you are so creative! These are absolutely adorable, sure to bring a smile to anyones face! They look as tasty as they are cute too!
see, our peeps rarely make it to recipe inclusion. they usually just get to my belly.
i need that decorator from wilton, that’s fabulous
LOL Brett, I threatened my children it they dared touch the PEEPS before I got them onto the cupcakes and pictures taken. lol.
They didn’t last long afterwards though.
What a great and fun idea on Easter! I loved how you use the licorice and serve as a handle, so cute!
These are very cute! I love Easter! Pinning!
I love them, they’re adorable! The licorice handles are awesome!
Those are so adorable. There are so many fun things to do with peeps!
Super adorable cupcakes!! And I must try that chocolate-covered Peep – how yummy!
What an adorable way to enjoy your Peeps! Sure wish we’d done all that fun baking over our spring break, but as only one of the four was off it didn’t happen.
My 23 year old daughter has an unhealthy obsession with Peeps – LOL – I am totally making these for her! Super cute.
Cute oh so cute I think son and I found our weekend project for sure.
Those cupcakes are super cute! And anything with peeps on it has to be tasty.
I have never seen the licorice before for the handle like that but I love that idea. These are just so super cute. I am going to make these for Easter.
My boyfriend will literally eat an entire case of these in one sitting!
So cute. My boys would love that!!
Those are so cute, Peeps are everywhere right now. We just bought some that are Sour Watermelon. I had no idea they had those and had to try them. We love Peeps.
I haven’t seen those anywhere! I will have to look for them.
These are so cute. Almost too cute to eat. I’m not a fan of peeps, but I know quite a few peeps lovers that would love these. I love the silicone baking cups. I usually just see red, white and light pink ones.
These are just too cute for words! I love the Twizzler as the basket handle!
These are so cute and actually aren’t too complicated to make it looks like. Most ideas I see like this would have me spending way more time than I have. What a great idea!
Those are so cute! I love the little baskets!
Super fun and festive little cupcakes! I love decorating sweet treats with Peeps!
Those are some adorable cupcakes. And the party cake Peeps sound like they would taste Fabulous! I need to be on the lookout for those here!
these little peeps treat are really popular here in blog land and I can see why. they make such cute and great looking easter treats like these. Beautiful
So cute and creative! I love it. My boys would go crazy for these.
Those are so flippin’ cute. I love how you made the basket basket handle. Knowing my kids they would try to pick them up by the handle. HA!
Adorable…makes me wish I had little people at home to make them for. How are those silicone baking cups to clean?
They are actually really easy to clean! They are actually dishwasher safe; but I usually just wash them by hand. anything left on the inside after my kids are done with them comes right off. No scrubbing at all. Just a simple wipe with hot soapy rag or sponge.
Okay those are cute! I have not had peeps in a while. they are so good!
These are super cute!
These are adorable! I am going to do something like this for my boys for Easter. I love peeps and how you can make them looks so cute on cupcakes. YOu are very talented and so cute! love these ideas
These look really cute. They are perfect for Easter.
Those are adorable. Definitely a must try. Perhaps for a kiddo party tomorrow!
OH! These are the cutest things ever! How creative!!!
These are so stinking cute! I love them and you are so creative!!! I would totally eat these right up!
What a great idea! Those Peeps cupcakes look so cute. I’m sure kids and adults will love them!
Peeps! It is that time oyear again isnt it? Thanks for the ideas.
Those are just too cute! You are always so creative. 🙂
I love peeps and your Easter goodies are so cute!
These are so cute! It looks like they would be fun to make…and eat! Very creative.
Those peeps cupcakes are so stinkin’ cute! I love them 😀
I simply love the idea of getting a yummy mess with decorating!
Those are the cutest cupcakes – so fun and festive! Not to mention, delicious. 😉
You did a great job!! I love what you did with your peeps!
Amber, these are ADORABLE!! I love my little silicone baking cups. I will have to make these for the kids. You did a beautiful job!