Ingredients:
• 1 dozen cupcakes
• 1 can prepared vanilla frosting or homemade buttercream frosting
• ½ C. shredded coconut
• 1 ½ tsp. water
• ¼ tsp. green food coloring
• Twelve 8 ½ -inch licorice sticks
• 8 oz. Jelly Belly jelly beans in pastel spring colors
Instructions:
1. Frost cupcakes generously with white icing being careful to spread out to the
edge of each cupcake.
2. Bend one licorice stick and insert ends into cupcakes making a basket handle.
3. Combine water and green food coloring. Combine with coconut and toss until
the coconut is bright green.
4. Add more of the water/food coloring mixture to achieve desired color.
To decorate cupcakes, place about 10 beans of the same flavor, long-side down
around edge of basket making a stand-up border. Sprinkle green coconut on top of
cupcakes. In the center place three Jelly Belly jelly beans in colors different
than the border color.
Makes 12 cupcakes.
Variations:
Easter Bunny Cupcakes
• 2 Jelly Belly beans per cupcake in Berry Blue flavor
• 1 Cotton Candy flavor of Jelly Belly beans
• Licorice ties
• Pink construction paper cut into 3-inch long bunny ears
Frost cupcakes as above. Place two Berry Blue Jelly Belly jelly beans for eyes
and one Cotton Candy for a nose. Insert paper ears and add licorice ties for
whiskers.
