Moist, chocolately cupcakes will be an adorable addition to your Easter table centerpieces.
Decorated with bunnies, chicks, and coconut-tinted green, making an Easter grass, festive dessert table.
With a few jelly beans, or some speckled candied eggs, you're Easter cupcakes will be loved by everyone.
Of course, you have the option to use store-bought favorite canned frosting and cake mix, but these can be a special holiday treat.
All the recipes on how to make these adorable cupcakes are on our easy printable recipe card all the way down at the bottom of this post.
Why Make This Recipe for Homemade Chocolate Peep Cupcakes
- Peeps are festive and fun for all ages, and the cupcakes are delicious
- The cake is made from scratch and all simple ingredients
- Peeps make a beautiful centerpiece for the Easter holiday table
- Simple Easter candies will make cupcakes go from plain to spectacular in colorful cupcake treats
- After baking, completely cool, frost, and assemble with chick, grass, and jelly beans
Ingredients For Homemade Cupcakes
- flour: all-purpose flour
- sugar: granulated sugar
- unsweetened dark cocoa: in powder form
- baking soda: for leavening
- salt: regular table salt
- warm coffee: leftover coffee or instant made is fine
- white distilled vinegar: clear vinegar not red
- oil: canola or vegetable oil even melted butter, can be substituted
- egg: large eggs
- Extracts: vanilla, almond, or coffee extract
Shopping List: You Will Need
- cake mix or use our homemade recipe
- yellow chick peeps, rabbits, or whatever your peeps desires!
- marshmallow fluff, powdered sugar, milk, butter or use canned frosting
- Garnish: jelly beans, malted eggs, coconut green tinted grass recipe in the printable card below
- Paper liners for Easter Cupcakes
- food coloring
Fun Suggestions for Peeps
- use chocolate-covered chow mein noodles for the bird nest effect
- add bunny peeps instead of chicks
- tint the frosting pastel colors and use sanding sugars
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Cake Mix or Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes
Whether you make our homemade recipe or in a hurry to get these to that school party, bringing to a holiday party or hosting one at home, these will be a charming addition to any dessert table.
If you do have the time do try this cupcake recipe, it's one of the best chocolate cupcakes I have ever made from scratch!
Easter Peep Cupcakes
Yield: 12
Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 20 MinTotal time: 30 Min
Homemade cupcakes decorated for Easter with fluffy frosting, Easter coconut grass, and peeps
Ingredients
- Chocolate Cupcake Batter:
- Use your favorite cake mix to package instructions or our homemade Chocolate Cupcake recipe below:
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup unsweetened dark cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup warm coffee
- 1 tablespoon white distilled vinegar
- 1/3 cup canola or vegetable oil
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla, almond or coffee extract
- Fluffy Frosting:
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 2 teaspoons pure almond or vanilla extract
- 10 tablespoons butter at room temperature
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup marshmallow fluff
- optional: frosting can be tinted with any food coloring you prefer or left white
- Garnish:
- Jelly beans or malted colorful Easter eggs
- Easter grass with coconut. See below for the directions
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line your cupcake tin with 12 paper liners.
- Cupcake Batter Instructions:
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and set it aside.
- In another clean bowl, add all the wet ingredients and blend evenly.
- Without over-mixing, blend the two bowls together (the batter will be lumpy).
- Fill cupcakes 2/3 full.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until the middle springs back when touched.
- Cool completely before frosting and assembling.
- While the cupcakes are baking, make the frosting and grass.
- Fluffy Frosting:
- In a large mixing bowl, add the butter and powdered sugar and beat until light, around 4 to 5 minutes.
- Add the milk and vanilla.
- Add the fluff to the sugar mixture, beating until smooth and fluffy, around 2 minutes.
- Colored Coconut Grass:
- Put the coconut in a bowl and add a few drops of green and one drop of yellow food coloring. Then add a couple of teaspoons of water.
- Stir this up really well and add more or less coloring until the color you like is achieved, to look like grass.
- Drain this in a food strainer and allow it to dry on wax paper.
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More Family Fun Holiday Recipes
Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies
Holiday Peanut Butter Candy
Edible Christmas Sugar Cone Trees
Cookie Cutter Pancakes
Graham Cracker Houses
