Plan a Dessert Station With Spring Cupcakes and Easter Candy

by Gibson Joness

Candy is a classic favorite at Easter for both kids as well as adults. If you are planning a party for this spring holiday, setting up a dessert station is a great way to celebrate. Decorate spring cupcakes with seasonal motifs and lay out Easter candy in glass candy dishes shaped like bunnies and baskets.
Robin's Nest Cupcakes

Frost the chocolate cupcakes with dark chocolate spread. Place thick pre-cooked noodles into a large mixing bowl and pour chocolate spread over them. Mix noodles using two forks until they are fully coated. Place the chocolate-coated noodles onto prepared baking sheet, forming a nest shape with your fingers. You can also make the nests directly on the cupcake using the frosting to hold the noodles together. Place Easter candy like a chocolate truffle-filled egg or two in the nest for sweet spring cupcakes. Embellish with cutouts of robins from vintage clipart sites.

These cupcakes will look amazing if you are decorating your holiday table with a robin's egg and nest theme. Speckled egg ramekins and egg serving plates are perfect as serveware for your themed dessert counter.
Carrot Patch Cupcakes

Bring home terracotta pots that will allow you to place cupcakes inside them. Little terracotta pots are easily available at craft stores or at your local gardening store. The mouth of the pots should be roughly the diameter of your cupcakes or slightly larger so the cupcakes are visible at the top. Place chocolate cupcakes inside the pots and frost them with chocolate frosting. Sprinkle chocolate cookie crumbs on the frosting to resemble soil.

Look through your premium lifestyle store or online for Easter candy like foil-wrapped chocolate carrots. "Plant" the carrots in the pot by putting them in the chocolate frosting. These spring cupcakes also make wonderful party favors; you can also include carrot seeds with the pots so each person can plant their own carrots at home.

It's easy to create simple Easter time displays with a candy landscape. Place edible grass on a large platter and cover completely. Add elements like chocolate bunnies and chocolate ladybugs along a trail of sugared almonds. Mini lemon sugar cookies in spring shapes like chicks and sheep can also be added to this seasonal candy landscape.

Gibson Jones is a certified interior designer and runs his own interior decoration consultancy. Gibson especially loves decorating a home in wooden furniture and believes that nothing gives a home as warm and cozy a touch as all-wood furniture and decor.

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Gibson loves reading up on new design ideas, and has a special interest in space saving techniques. Here Gibson writes about Easter candy and spring cupcakes.

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Three Ideas for Sweet Spring Cupcakes and Easter Cakes

by Gibson Joness

The spring holiday is a time to celebrate the beauty of the season with friends and family. Usually, Easter get-togethers are about brunches followed by scrumptious desserts like Easter cakes and spring cupcakes. Create some of these delicious desserts for your guests to enjoy.

Hidden Surprise Spring Cupcakes
This is a great idea if you have children or simply want to add a playful twist to your holiday table. Make these fun and festive spring cupcakes by baking cupcakes in your chosen flavor or bringing home readymade cupcakes. Use a cupcake corer to hollow out a perfect hole in the center of each of the cupcakes.

Fill these hollowed out cupcakes with mini chocolate eggs. Sour gummy eggs also make wonderful options for a surprise tart treat. Now, it is time to hide the surprise so top the cupcakes with lots of frosting. Sprinkle the frosting with coconut flakes mixed with green food coloring to resemble grass. Place a marshmallow bunny or chick on the grassy layer on each of the cupcakes. These spring cupcakes are a wonderful way to spring a surprise on your guests as they bite into them and discover the hidden filling.
Nest o' Eggs Easter Cakes

Place a chocolate Bundt cake on an attractive serving platter. Put a narrow glass or small custard cup, with the bottom side facing up inside the cake's center; make sure that it fits snugly. Use a small offset spatula, a knife or the back of a spoon to frost the top two-thirds of the cake. Swirl the frosting in an upward motion to give it a fluffy, nest-like appearance. Pile chocolate truffle-filled eggs on top of the bowl or glass in the center of the cake.

These Easter cakes can easily be the centerpiece of your springtime holiday table.

Sunflower Easter Cakes
Bake a chocolate cake using a greased and waxed paper-lined nine-inch round baking pan. Cool for some time before removing the cake from the pan and cool on a wire rack to cool completely. Carefully remove the waxed paper. Spread chocolate frosting over the top and sides of the cake. Arrange marshmallow chicks around the edge of cake, curving slightly to fit, to resemble sunflower petals. Add chocolate chips to the center of the cake for sunflower seeds. These Easter cakes can be perfect for your springtime holiday especially if you are decorating with the flower theme.

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Gibson Jones is a certified interior designer and runs his own interior decoration consultancy. Gibson especially loves decorating a home in wooden furniture and believes that nothing gives a home as warm and cozy a touch as all-wood furniture and decor.
Gibson loves reading up on new design ideas, and has a special interest in space saving techniques. Here Gibson writes about Easter cakes and spring cupcakes.

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Strawberry Brownie Cupcakes

by Maria

Over the weekend I made a couple delicious treats for my boyfriend- a long with a bunch of other snack food items for the Super Bowl! I like to bake for my man at least once a month. I have always tried to bake right around our monthly anniversary. I do it just because I want to and honestly I don't think Chris or any other lover have ever noticed the trend. I usually like to do easy, pre-made things because of my tight budget and lack of resources in the dinky hole in the wall called a kitchen at this apartment. For our last monthly anniversary I made oatmeal cookies with double chocolate chips. I have also made regular chocolate chip cookies, the peanut butter cookies with kisses, brownies, and brownies with Rolos in them. Saturday morning I decided to try something I had seen on Pinterest. The funny thing is I did not ever read the article, I just made this dessert to resemble the product. The original post can be found here and they are called Chocolate Pudding Cupcakes with Strawberry Centers or Sweetheart Cupcakes.

I will call my version Strawberry Brownie Cupcakes.

You will need the following ingredients:
Any family size brownie mix
One tub of frosting (your choice!)
Food coloring

Fresh strawberries
The first thing I did was cut and washed the strawberries. I cut the top of them off and threw them away. Next I added the ingredients of the brownie mix and stirred it all up.

After that I prepared the muffin tins with cupcake paper. You can make it even more festive by getting papers that are colored or have deigns. I then filled each cup about half full with the brownie mix. I stuck a strawberry in the middle of each one and popped them in the oven for the directed time on the brownie mix box. I ended up with about 24 cupcakes. I let them cool for about an hour. Then I added a few drops of red food dye in the tub of icing. You can make it pinker by adding less dye.

I then iced all the strawberry brownies.
The goal was to get an end product where you cut the brownie and the strawberry in the center looks like a heart like the original post I saw. This was about the best one. But Chris and my friends loved them! They ended up being very moist and had a great flavor.

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