Baby Chick Cupcakes
- 2 1/4 cups plain flour
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup milk
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 cups icing sugar
- cream
- yellow food colouring
- 2 cups coconut
- m&ms Brown and orange
- Heat oven to 180 C. Put paper cases in 24 muffin tins (or halve the recipe and do 12, or bake 12 at a time).
- In a medium bowl, beat flour, sugar, butter, milk, baking powder, salt, vanilla and egg. Either beat 3 minutes with a mixer, or get that baking bicep out and mix by hand for a few minutes. fill paper cases half full.
- Bake 15-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool completely on a rack.
- This is the fun part! add tablespoonsful of cream to the two cups of icing in a bowl, until it gets to the desired stage. Some people like runny, I prefer it a little stiff.
- Add a few drops of yellow food colouring and mix.
- Now for your chick feathers... add 2 cups coconut to a ziplock bag, drop in some food colouring, seal it up and rub it all with your fingers to dye the coconut. Fun!
- When cupcakes are completely cool, ice with yellow frosting. Put the coconut in a small bowl, and dip the cupcakes icing-side down into it to completely cover. Add brown M&Ms for eyes, sticking on with a little frosting for glue. Poke orange M&Ms in for the beak... total cuteness.
flour, sugar, butter, milk, baking powder, salt, vanilla, egg, icing sugar, cream, yellow food colouring, coconut, brown and
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Baby-Chick-Cupcakes-1646693 (may not work)