Spring, is that you? To celebrate the upcoming season, we whipped up the cutest Easter dessert, some spring chick cupcakes.
If you really enjoy baking or decorating cupcakes, then you should try these Easter bunny cupcakes. They are so easy that beginners can do them without any problems.
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Chirp, chirp!
Sometimes, all it takes is fondant, buttercream, and a bit of imagination to create your next sweet treat.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I have a huge sweet tooth. Huge. Humongous. Cavity-inducing. Most likely. And you know what? I have no shame.
All jokes aside, I love to bake. I love, love, LOVE it. Baking was a huge part of my upbringing and I’ve carried on my mom’s passion for desserts into my very own kitchen.
I’m a huge fan of cupcakes. There’s just something about decorating individual-sized cakes and bringing them to life with different elements and ingredients.
Now that Spring is on its way (but, ahem, can you come faster, please?), I decided to whip up a new Easter dessert – in cupcake form, of course!
Spring Chick Cupcake Tips
My Spring Chick Cupcakes are fun to make and will be the center of attention for your upcoming Easter celebration.
The entire recipe is in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. First, I have some additional tips that will help you make them.
Kitchen Tools Needed
Ingredients
- Pre-made vanilla cupcakes
- Butter
- Powdered Sugar
- Milk
- Yellow Fondant
- Orange Fondant
- Black Marker With Edible Ink
- Candy Eggs
Spring Chick Cupcake Tips
To help make this process easier, I’ll walk you through the entire process with step-by-step pictures. I’ll even include all the steps in a printable recipe card for you so you can print it out and use it when you are ready.
This recipe will decorate one dozen cupcakes.
Make Sure Cupcakes Are Completely Cool
Wait! Before you start any sort of decorating, you have to make sure that your cupcakes are completely cool. If they’re still warm, your buttercream will slide off and just look icky!
Make The Buttercream
You will first make the buttercream. To do so, use an electric mixer to beat the following ingredients: butter, confectioners’ sugar and milk.
When you beat these ingredients, you will want to start at low speed, just to get everything combined and soft. Then, gradually increase speed to high and beat until all ingredients are smooth and form semi-stiff peaks.
Frost The Cupcakes
Scoop the buttercream into a piping bag. Attach Wilton tip #12 and frost the center of each cupcake.
Make Easter Chicks Out Of Cupcakes
To prepare the fondant chicks, roll out 12 ovals from your yellow fondant, about 1 inch in size. Then roll out 12 spheres, about ½ an inch in size.
Insert one oval into your toothpick, followed by the sphere. Using scissors, cut out a slit from each side of the oval-shaped fondant – these will act as your chick’s wings.
Create 12 small spheres from your orange fondant and shape them into triangles. Place on the center of each circle sphere and press down – they will act as your chick’s beak.
Use your black marker to draw out two dots for eyes on each chick.
Insert one fondant chick into each cupcake. Top off with 2-3 candy eggs. Serve!
Spring Chick Cupcakes
Equipment
- Electric Mixer
- Piping bag
- Wilton Decorating Tip #12
- Toothpicks
- Black Marker With Edible Ink
Ingredients
- 12 vanilla cupcakes
- 1 stick unsalted butter softened
- 2 cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1-2 tbsp whole milk
- 4 oz. yellow fondant
- 1 oz. orange fondant
- Black marker with edible ink
- 24-30 Easter candy eggs
Instructions
- Ensure your cupcakes are completely cool before starting the decorating process
- Make the buttercream by beating butter, confectioners’ sugar, and milk with an electric mixer. Start on low and gradually increase to high.
- Once ingredients are smooth and form semi-stiff peaks, scoop the buttercream into a piping bag. Attach Wilton tip #12 and frost the center of each cupcake.
- To prepare the fondant chicks, roll out 12 ovals from your yellow fondant, about 1 inch in size. Then roll out 12 spheres, about ½ an inch in size.
- Insert one oval into your toothpick, followed by the sphere. Using scissors, cut out a slit from each side of the oval-shaped fondant – these will act as your chick’s wings.
- Create 12 small spheres from your orange fondant and shape them into triangles. Place on the center of each circle sphere and press down – they will act as your chick’s beak.
- Use your black marker to draw out two dots for eyes on each chick.
- Insert one fondant chick into each cupcake. Top off with 2-3 candy eggs. Serve!
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More Easter Ideas
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Now I know I can make the cupcakes no problem. Don’t know if the chicks will come out as cute.
Those are so cute! You are incredibly creative and you make it look so simple. Maybe I can make something like this for Easter.
These are the cutest. Perfect for Easter and not too complicated to make either. Any little one would go crazy for these including my own.
Cutest dessert, YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! OMG these are friggin’ adorable!
These are the cutest cupcakes! I know my daughter will want to make them. I am so ready for spring!
Such a cute dessert. Everyone loves cupcakes and the chick is so much fun. Spring is coming and these treats are evidence of that.
Love your food art! So adorbz!
Thank you so much!! I can’t wait to make more!!
These are the cutest cupcakes ever! The fondants reminds me when my daughter is into baking.
Those are so sweet! The chicks look a lot simpler to assemble than I would have thought. We may be making these over spring break. Thank you for the idea!
Yummy! You did such an amazing job with these cupcakes. I would love to give this recipe a try.
Omg-these are SO cute! This little chicks are adorable!
These are absolutely adorable! I prefer cupcakes to cakes because they are so easy to serve.
This is seriously the cutest! I want to make these for my kids this weekend!
These are absolutely adorable. I have always been a sucker for spring and Easter themed desserts.
Oh my goodness! How cute are these cupcakes! I love how easy these cupcakes are!
You were right, these are the cutest cupcakes! I’m not that handy with modeling chocolate or fondant but wow!
Oh my goodness. How adorable are these cupcakes for spring? The little fondant chicks look so easy to make and make such an impact on the cupcakes. Love this idea!
Oh, the cutest chick cupcake! I really like how cute delicious this looks!
These Are so cute and so fun to make.
Wow these are almost too cute to eat! I really need to whip up some homemade cupcakes, it’s been ages!
These are so adorable! I am not sure I could master those chicks though!!
Oh my, these are absolutely adorable! I love them! Might be hard to eat them because they are so cute. However, I love cupcakes, so not a problem:) Pinning to this to make for Easter! Thanks so much!
These are the cutest little cupcakes. What a great idea for Easter, I would love to try this.
These look and sound delicious. I haven’t ventured into the world of fondant but I may very try.
Those cupcakes are adorable! The recipe looks easy to make and sounds like it will be delish! I cannot wait to try them.
These seriously are the cutest ever! I have to try this and have people thinking I’m a pro ????
Hi Lisa,
I love dessert. Whenever I visit my home my mother always makes some thing or the other in dessert as she knows I love them.
This time I think I should give her a surprise and make these simple but very very outstanding looking cupcakes.
Thanks for sharing this recipe of yours.
Kaushal Dhawan