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    Baby Chick Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting

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    These Baby Chick Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting are so cute!  They are perfect for Easter or even a baby shower.

    these baby chick cupcakes with homemade buttercream frosting are the perfect Easter dessert

    FOR MORE DELICIOUS DESSERTS, CHECK OUT MY BLUEBERRY MUFFINS OR MY EASY BREAD PUDDING RECIPE.

    Easter Is Right Around The Corner

    Believe it or not, Easter is right around the corner.  Looking out at the frozen tundra of my backyard right now, I can’t believe that in just a few short months, my kids will be scampering around looking for Easter Eggs.  We love the Easter Holiday around our house.  It is the sign that Spring is coming, there we have a big brunch and, of course, we get to eat Cadbury Creme Eggs!

    Speaking of sweets, this is also the perfect time to make some fun Easter themed desserts.  There is so many ways you can decorate your sweet treats for Easter, and the colors are always so fresh, bright and inviting.

    This year, we are going to make these Baby Chick Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting.  If you have a favorite cupcake recipe you want to use, great!  Or you could keep it simple by buying store bought cupcakes or cupcake mix.

    buttercream frosting is the key to these delicious Easter Cupcakes with baby chicks on them

    Homemade Buttercream Frosting

    What I love about this idea is that we aren’t so much focusing on the cupcake recipe as much as the fun, delicious icing.  The yellow buttercream frosting is what really makes this dish stand out.  Have you ever had a cupcake and, by far, the icing was the best thing about it?  Well, I’d like to introduce you to these Baby Chic Cupcakes.  Also, we don’t put too much icing on them.  Sometimes, even if the buttercream icing is perfect, you can put too much on and ruin the experience.  We put just enough on to taste great and gave us our cute little baby chick!

    Baby Chick Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting

    ingredients for homemade buttercream frosting

    Ingredients:

    • 12 of your favorite vanilla cupcakes
    • 1 stick butter, softened
    • 2 cups icing sugar
    • 3-4 tbsp milk
    • ¼ tsp yellow gel food coloring
    • 2 oz. orange fondant
    • 1 oz. black fondant

    easter cupcakes with baby chicks and homemade buttercream frosting

    Instructions:

    1. Before you begin, ensure that all of your cupcakes are cool to the touch.
    2. Start by making your yellow buttercream. Using an electric mixer, beat together butter, icing sugar, milk and food coloring on medium speed. Gradually increase to high.
    3. The buttercream is complete once the ingredients are well combined and form semi-stiff peaks.
    4. Scoop your yellow buttercream in a piping bag with a round icing tip.
    5. Frost each cupcake first, by icing a flat circle on each cupcake. Then on top, add a thicker layer of buttercream, but the circle should be smaller in diameter to its base (this is to form the body and head).
    6. With your black fondant, roll out 24 tiny spheres. These will act as your chick’s eyes.
    7. Add 2 eyes on each cupcake.
    8. With your orange fondant, form 12 spheres, about ¼ of an inch in size.
    9. Shape the fondant spheres into triangles. These will be your chick’s beak. Insert into the center of each cupcake.
    10. Form 24 tiny spheres from your orange fondant. Roll them out to form small, thin lines and then bend them slightly. These will act as your chick’s little feet. Add two to each cupcake.
    11. Serve and enjoy!

    These are incredibly cute and once you put them out the table, it’s almost like they will wander off on their own.  They are a huge hit with kids.  These would also be a great to bring into the office for a pitch in or even just a special surprise for your coworkers.  Trust me, they won’t be able to resist them!

    I hope you have a great Easter and I hope you enjoy these Baby Chick Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting!  Let me know what you think!

    baby chick cupcakes with homemade buttercream frosting are a great holiday treat

    Chick Cupcakes
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    Baby Chick Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting

    These Baby Chick Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting are so cute!  They are perfect for Easter or even a baby shower.
    Course Dessert
    Keyword cupcakes, easter, homemade buttercream frosting
    Prep Time 20 minutes
    Total Time 20 minutes
    Servings 12
    Calories 24 kcal
    Author BubbaPie Guest Baker

    Ingredients

    • 12 of your favorite vanilla cupcakes
    • 1 stick butter softened
    • 2 cups icing sugar
    • 3-4 tbsp milk
    • ¼ tsp yellow gel food coloring
    • 2 oz. orange fondant
    • 1 oz. black fondant

    Instructions

    1. Before you begin, ensure that all of your cupcakes are cool to the touch.
    2. Start by making your yellow buttercream. Using an electric mixer, beat together butter, icing sugar, milk and food coloring on medium speed. Gradually increase to high.

      beat together butter, icing sugar, milk and food coloring for baby chick cupcakes
    3. The buttercream is complete once the ingredients are well combined and form semi-stiff peaks.
    4. Scoop your yellow buttercream in a piping bag with a round icing tip.
      Frost each baby chick cupcake first, by icing a flat circle on each cupcake.
    5. Frost each cupcake first, by icing a flat circle on each cupcake. Then on top, add a thicker layer of buttercream, but the circle should be smaller in diameter to its base (this is to form the body and head).

    6. With your black fondant, roll out 24 tiny spheres. These will act as your chick’s eyes.

      Roll fondant into spheres
    7. Add 2 eyes on each cupcake.
      Put eyes on baby chicks
    8. With your orange fondant, form 12 spheres, about ¼ of an inch in size.
      Roll Orange Fondant into spheres for feet.
    9. Shape the fondant spheres into triangles. These will be your chick’s beak. Insert into the center of each cupcake.
      Make into triangles for baby chicks beak.
    10. Form 24 tiny spheres from your orange fondant. Roll them out to form small, thin lines and then bend them slightly. These will act as your chick’s little feet. Add two to each cupcake.
      Roll Orange Fondant into spheres for feet.
    11. Serve and enjoy!

    Recipe Notes

    • Note that calorie count is for the homemade frosting only, it does not include your cupcake calories.
    Nutrition Facts
    Baby Chick Cupcakes with Homemade Buttercream Frosting
    Amount Per Serving
    Calories 24
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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