JELLY BELLY BUNNY CUPCAKES
Dazzle your friends and family with these charming Bunny Cupcakes!Directions:
- - Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 24 muffin cups with white paper liners. Prepare cake mix according to package directions
- - substituting the buttermilk for the water in the recipe. Divide the batter between the prepared cups
- - about 2/3 full
- - and bake until golden about 15 to 18 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely. Refrigerate cupcakes until ready to decorate.
- - To make the bunny ears
- - cut 1/4 inch from each short end of a marshmallow and dip the cut sides of the end pieces into the desired sugar color to coat. (When you cut
- - discard the small remaining piece in the center of each marshmallow.) Repeat with 23 marshmallows and the sugars to make 24 pairs of colored bunny ears. For the head
- - insert a pretzel stick into a rounded side of a whole marshmallow.
- - Line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Arrange 2 like colored sugared marshmallow ears
- - lengthwise
- - side by side
- - and the head marshmallow
- - on its side below the ears (The pretzel stick will be at the bottom
- - on the opposite side from the ears).
- - Place the white candy melts in a recloseable bag. Microwave the bag
- - stopping to massage every 5 seconds
- - until smooth
- - about 1 minute. Snip a small corner from the bag. Pipe two dots of melted candy on the top side of the marshmallow head to attach the sugar coated mini marshmallow ears. For the nose
- - pipe a small dot of candy to the front side of the marshmallow head and attach a Jelly Belly bean that matches the ear color. For the tail
- - pipe a dot of melted candy on the wax paper and arrange 4 Jelly Belly beans of the same color together on the dot. Refrigerate until set
- - about 5 minutes.
- - Place the coconut in a medium bowl. Spread the top of a chilled cupcake with a mound of vanilla frosting and make smooth. Roll the top of the cupcake in the coconut to coat. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes.
- - To assemble
- - insert the pretzel end of the head close to one edge of the frosted cupcake. Pipe eyes with the chocolate icing. Add the tail with a dot of frosting to secure. Press 4 Jelly Belly beans into the side of the cupcake as the feet using matching colored beans. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes and candies.
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Ingredients:
- - 1 box (16.5 ounces) vanilla cake mix
- - 3 large eggs
- - 1 cup buttermilk
- - 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- - 1/4 tsp coconut extract
- - 1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
- - 1 1/4 cups desiccated coconut or finely chopped shredded coconut
- - 1 1/2 cup Jewel Spring Mix Jelly Belly® jelly beans
- - 1/2 cup white chocolate melting wafers
- - 3 tbsps each bright pink
- - light pink
- - orange
- - green and light blue decorating sugar
- - 48 marshmallows
- - 24 thin pretzel sticks
- - 1 tube (4.25 ounces) chocolate decorating icing