Need easy spring chick cupcakes or best cupcakes for Easter? This simple dessert recipe is perfect for baby shower cupcakes or for so many party themes — mini birthday party cakes, lemon dessert ideas, chicken themes / farm themed cupcakes / animal theme for preschool parties, fun summer desserts and more!
Easy Spring Chick Cupcakes
Need cupcake ideas for spring or a chick birthday cake? These lemon chick cup cakes are perfect and make the best cupcakes for Easter or spring birthday parties. This is one of my favorite cupcake recipes and kids and adults alike always love them!
Spring Chick Cupcakes Simple Ingredients:
- Lemon cake mix (or yellow box cake mix)
- Ingredients as listed on box to make cupcakes
- Yellow frosting (we used buttercream icing in tub – no fondant needed)
- Orange confetti sprinkle hearts (candy)
- Yellow sugar (sanding sugar)
- Candy eyes
Get the full printable recipe card for spring chick cupcakes / Easter chick cupcakes below. Definitely print it to save for your dessert recipes!
How To Make Easy Spring Cupcake Step-By-Step Tips
Decorating Ideas For Baby Chicks Cupcakes
I like to call these cupcakes for spring “cheater cupcakes” (aka: cupcakes with cake mix). So, file this one under cupcake recipe easy to make and save it for last minute desserts.Making cupcakes from scratch doesn’t need to happen every time but it’s a great baking hack, especially when you’re in a time crunch!
Check out this super simple Spring cake I made under a time crunch one time!
How to Pipe a Chick in Buttercream Icing or Frosting
These cupcakes are easy to decorate, even if you’re not an expert in piping buttercream icing or frosting or decorating cupcakes.
(And, I am SO NOT and my daughter helped make this little yellow chickens!)
To make these easy decorated chicken cupcakes, you’ll need:
- Favorite cake mix (or cupcake recipe) and ingredients to make it (listed on box)
- Piping bag and regular round tip
- Yellow icing
- Orange (sprinkle candy) hearts, you may have to buy a mix and pick them out (see the recipe for the trick I use for these)
- Candy Eyes (for the chick’s eyes)
- Fine yellow sugar sprinkles (or sanding sugar)
MORE EASTER IDEAS AND FUN SPRING ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS:
How To Make Icing Chicks
To make the icing chicks is super simple.
You can actually pipe the icing one of two ways:
- In a swirl
- Pipe two “blobs” on top of each other, making the top one smaller for the head
(And yes, “blob” is the technical piping terminology…)
When piping, make sure you hold the piping bag and tip straight up and down (not at an angle).
When you get to the top of your chick, which will be the chicks head, leave a little swirl on top for the chick’s hair (feathers). It just gives each decorated cupcake a little more character.
We used store bought frosting (in the tub), but you can use any cupcake frosting recipe, as long as it is a “sturdy” icing (like buttercream).
Spring Chick Cupcakes Printable Recipe Card
We made these as lemon cupcakes because my daughter loves lemon, but you can use regular yellow cake mix (or Funfetti cake or any other favorite cake flavor).
Definitely skip the tired Easter bunny cupcakes this year and make these chickie cupcakes instead!
Don’t miss recipe and read kids activities after the recipe card.
Spring Chick Cupcakes
Ingredients
- Lemon cake mix or cupcake mix plus cupcake ingredients as listed on box, or any flavor cake/cupcake mix
- Yellow buttercream icing in tub
- Orange confetti sprinkle hearts candy
- Yellow sugar sanding sugar
- Candy eyes
Instructions
- Mix cake/cupcake batter according to package directions.
- Line cupcake pan with baking cups.
- Fill each baking cup about 3/4 way full.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or according to package directions. Cupcakes are done when a fork inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool completely before decorating.
- TO DECORATE WITH BUTTERCREAM BABY CHICKS
- Assemble a piping bag with a regular round piping tip. Spoon yellow icing into the bag.
- Place piping tip onto middle of cupcake (with piping bag and tip situated straight up) and pipe one large circle.
- On top of the large circle, pipe a smaller circle for the chick's head. Leave a swirl at the top for the chick's feathers. (You can also pipe the icing for the chick's body and head as a swirl if that's easier.)
- For the chick's eyes: Place candy eyes on the front of the face/head.
- For the chick's beak: turn one rounded heart sprinkle so that the round edges stick into the icing and the pointed side is out. Place beak under the eyes.
- For the feet: Use two heart sprinkles and stick heart points into the icing (next to the cupcake) for feet.
- Liberally sprinkle icing chick and cupcake with yellow sanding sugar.
- Serve immediately, or store in an airtight container and covered until ready to use.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition Note
Nutrition calculations are approximate. If you're following a special diet, please calculate your own nutrition values.
Tips For Baking Spring Cupcakes
One year when we were hosting an Easter party at our house, I realized that morning that we needed more desserts.
Last minute, we used a lemon cake mix and yellow icing that we had in the pantry and ended up making the cutest baby chicks cupcakes for Spring and Easter. This made a super easy Easter cupcake recipe!
My daughter had a ton of fun making these easy cupcakes (especially piping the chicks in the center of each cupcake to give each little chick it’s own personality). They make super cute kids treats for Easter treats or even birthday party cakes! It’s actually now one of our favorite spring cupcake recipes (and a great spring lemon dessert).
We used lemon cake mix, but you can use any of your favorite cupcake flavors—or even make lemon the cupcake filling!
We call these cupcakes for spring, but they’re actually good for any time.
These frosting chicks make perfect cupcakes ideas for:
- Easter Cupcakes
- Spring Desserts
- Birthday Parties
- Farm Animal Party Theme
- Baby Showers cupcakes
- Spring Chicken birthday parties
- Summer cookouts
RECIPE AND READ KIDS ACTIVITIES: Children’s Books paired with Baby Chicks Cupcakes for Spring Activity Ideas
There are so many great Spring children’s books and farm animals kids’ books (and chick kids’ books) that we had a hard time picking just one to pair up with recipe.
Instead, we thought we would just give you some of our favorites to go with this theme!
And, if you are making this cupcake recipe for a baby shower, some of these books would make great gifts or door prizes to go along with the theme!
- Where Is Fuzzy Chick (Touch & Feel Board Book)
- Pip & Pup
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick!
- Little Chick: Finger Puppet Book: (Puppet Book for Baby, Little Easter Board Book)
- Pop-Up Peekaboo! Farm
Also Try This Spring Baking Recipe / Easter Cake: Cheater Carrot Cake Everyone Loves!
I hope you enjoy these really cute easy spring chick cupcakes. They really are the best cupcakes for spring!
