Baby Chick Cupcakes
By: Veggie Mama
Published: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 3:42am

Ingredients




2 1/4 cups plain flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
 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
Brown and orange M&Ms

Preparation

1 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). 2 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. 3 Bake 15-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool completely on a rack. 4 FROSTING: 5 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. 6 Add a few drops of yellow food colouring and mix. 7 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! 8 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.

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