Peep Cupcakes For Easter
With Easter just around the corner, there is no better time to start planning what to serve after the turkey has been devoured. These delicious Peep Easter cupcakes are the perfect sweet treat for adults and children. Everyone loves a cupcake and the bunny peeps are the perfect festive accompaniment for the holiday.
Cupcake Ingredients
1/2 C. butter, softened to room temperature
1 C. sugar
2 large egg whites
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 C. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 C. milk
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Combine the softened butter, sugar, egg whites and vanilla mixing well. Slowly fold in the flour, salt and baking powder. Lastly, add the milk continuing to stir.
Pour into greased muffin tins (or liners) and bake 20-25 minutes. Insert a toothpick around 20 minutes and if it comes out clean the cupcakes are done.
*Recipe is adapted from allrecipes:
http://www.allrecipes.com/
*Makes approximately 12 cupcakes
Peep Cupcakes
White frosting
Blue food coloring
pink food coloring
Pink Peeps
Blue Peeps
Bright pink Wilton sugar sprinkles
Bright blue Wilton sugar sprinkles
toothpicks
Peep Cupcake Directions
Separate the white frosting into 2 different bowls.
Add a few drops of pink food coloring to one bowl of white frosting and mix well. Add a few more drops of pink food coloring depending on how pink you want your frosting.
Add a few drops of the blue food coloring to the other bowl of white frosting and mix well. Same as pink, if you want it bluer add a few more drops of blue at a time mixing well.
Generously frost each cupcake with pink or blue frosting. Sprinkle with the same color sugar crystals.
Insert a toothpick into the base of each Peep pushing it in about 1/2 way.
Finally, insert the Peep into the same color cupcake standing up as shown.
Repeat with the other cupcakes.
Happy Easter!
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What a cute idea. My kids would LOVE those.
How cute are these!!! I bet they are just as yummy too
These turned out so cute. I love peeps! The chick shaped ones are my favorite, even though they don’t taste any different.
Those are almost too cute to eat! You could put some dyed green coconut on the tops for grass too!
Those are so adorable! I think we will have to make these.
Peeps are the best for Easter. I’d love to make some of these Peep cupcakes!
My dad loves Peeps! He likes them stale though so I would have to leave them out for a few days before making him these.
These look really good and bet they taste yummy. My son and husband would go crazy over them.
I love this little cupcakes. Very cute idea
Yum these look super cute! I never buy peeps but This would be a good excuse to.. My kids would love them!
Yummy, these are cute cupcakes. I love the peeps on top.
These are just so cute. Very easy also.
Those cupcakes are so pretty! I love the peeps on top!
These will definitely be awesome for Easter. This year is going by so fast!
Those peeps cupcakes are too cute! Too cute to eat
So many people love Peeps. This is a cute way to use them. 🙂
These Peep cupcakes would be awesome to make with the kids indeed. We all love Peeps and what better way to celebrate Easter than with homemade Peep cupcakes. Thanks for sharing.
Super cute! Love the colors! 🙂
Those turned out AMAZING. My daughter would east the whole plate
Those cupcakes are the best. They are so adorable I would hesitate to take a big bite out of them. Yum
These look really cute. I love getting the kids involved in making treats like this.
These are such a cute idea to make for Easter. Love that you can whip up your own colored frosting.
These cupcakes are so cute and delicious. We get so many Peeps for Easter and this is a great way to include them in some yummy desserts.
I love Easter treats that the kids can work on by themselves or need very little help assembling.
Those are adorable! I love making things with Peeps. They are just so much fun!
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