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Easy Easter Basket Cupcakes

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By Signature Brands
Updated May 18, 2022
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Celebrate Easter with these adorable cupcakes decorated with candy decors to look like tiny baskets.

Easy Easter Basket Cupcakes

  • Prep Time 45 min
  • Total 1 hr 45 min
  • Servings 24
  • Ingredients 6
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Ingredients

  • 1 package Betty Crocker™ No Fade™ Easter paper baking cups
  • 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Yellow Cake Mix
  • Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
  • 2 cans (8.4 oz each) Betty Crocker™ cloud white decorating cupcake icing
  • 2 tablespoons Betty Crocker™ decorating decors pastel green sugar
  • 1 bottle Betty Crocker™ decorating decors pastel sequins or other pastel decors

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
  • Step 
    2
    Using star tip, pipe cupcake icing on top of each cupcake; spread evenly. Sprinkle with green sugar.
  • Step 
    3
    To make nest on top of each cupcake, pipe icing in circle, 2 layers high. Fill each nest with about 1/2 teaspoon pastel sequins; sprinkle additional sequins around nest.

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