We used yellow icing for our baby chicks Easter cupcakes for Spring, but you can have a lot of fun and adapt the colors of the icing and cupcake batter for Easter, baby shower cupcakes, birthday party themes and more! (I think we are going to try purple icing next time!)
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Additional Time10 minutesmins
Total Time35 minutesmins
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: American
Servings: 24
Calories: 127kcal
Author: LittleCooksReadingBooks.com
Ingredients
Lemon cake mix or cupcake mixplus cupcake ingredients as listed on box, or any flavor cake/cupcake mix
Yellow buttercream icingin tub
Orange confetti sprinkle heartscandy
Yellow sugarsanding 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
I could not find just orange sprinkle heart candies. Instead, I found a container of mixed heart "sprinkle" colors and just picked out the orange ones. If you can't find heart sprinkles, you can also use small pieces of orange fondant.