These super easy Easter egg hunt cupcakes have a vanilla sponge cupcake base topped with green ‘grass’ frosting. They’re then finished off with a few mini candy Easter eggs. Ready in under an hour, they’re perfect for some Easter baking with the kids!
Easy Recipes for Kids: Easter Egg Hunt Cupcakes
I can’t believe it’s already mid-March and I’m thinking about Easter cakes and bakes again already! I swear the years are going by even faster than they used to. Our youngest just turned 10. He was 3 when I started this blog, and themed Easter bakes have been a regular part of his childhood.
I’m delighted to say he’s still as keen to help me out in the kitchen as he used to be when it comes to whipping up some easy recipes, and last weekend he and his big sister (now 12!) helped me make a batch of these super easy Easter Egg Hunt Cupcakes. It was a chance for us to spend some proper time together in the kitchen (it’s been ages!) and to try out the grass piping nozzle I’d bought this time last year (or was it the year before?!). I’ve been planning to make a Spring themed garden cupcake recipe for some time ago, and now here it is!
These cupcakes were originally for a sponsored Instagram post, but I liked how they turned out so I thought I’d share the recipe on the blog too.
Ingredients for these Easy Easter Egg Hunt Cupcakes
- 120 grams butter
- 120 grams granulated sugar (or caster sugar)
- 2 medium free-range eggs
- 120 grams self-raising flour
- 0.5 tsp vanilla
- 3 tbsp full-fat milk
- 150 grams vanilla frosting of your choice (homemade or shop bought)
- green gel food colouring – around 4-5 drops should be enough
- mini candy Easter eggs – three for each cupcake.
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How to make these Easy Easter Egg Hunt Cupcakes – Step by Step Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar together and add eggs.
- Sift over the flour.
- Add vanilla and milk, and stir to combine.
- Spoon into prepared baking cases.
- Bake in a preheated 200 C/ 180 C fan/ 375 F oven for 15-20 minutes.
- Cool and decorate with green tinted ‘grass’ frosting and mini candy Easter eggs.
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Cupcake Frosting Piping Tips
I prefer to use disposable piping bags, simply for ease of clean up. Also, years ago I discovered it’s really hard to hygienically clean the reusable fabric ones. Don’t believe me? Go give your reusable piping bag a sniff just now, you’ll see.
Snip the bottom of your piping bag with a sharp pair of scissors (or roll up a piece of greaseproof paper into a point) and fit your piping nozzle. Use a large glass to help with getting the icing in the bag. I find it’s easiest to pop the piping bag and nozzle into a large pint glass when assembled, rolling over the bottom edges of the bag to hold it open, before filling it. Check out our video below to see.
Then, spoon in your frosting and squeeze the frosting in the bag to remove any air bubbles. Twist the open end of the piping bag to close it. To frost your cupcake, gently squeeze the bottom of the piping bag to push the frosting out through the nozzle, using your other hand to guide the nozzle where you’d like it.
How to Pipe Grass Frosting
First, you need to get yourself a grass piping nozzle. I use the JEM Large Grass Piping Nozzle #235 with a tip diameter of 2.5mm.
Tint your vanilla frosting with green gel food colouring (I find gel gives a richer colour compared to liquid colours), and fill your piping bag fit with the grass piping nozzle.
Gently squeeze the frosting out through the nozzle, and pull the nozzle sharply back from the cupcake to get long, grass-like strands. Check out our video below to see our 12-year-old demonstrate!
You can use this technique to make animal fur too – why not make a white Easter bunny with vanilla frosting, or use chocolate frosting to make teddy bear fur?
Easy Easter Egg Hunt Cupcake Recipe Video
Other Easter Bakes & Crafts from Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
- The Best Gluten-free Creme Egg Brownies Recipe
- Num Noms – inspired Easter Chocolate Bark
- Cadbury Creme Egg No Churn Easter Ice Cream Cake (inspired by Dairy Queen cakes!)
- Easter Tree – Crafting with Children
- Easter Eggcupcakes
- Recycled Newspaper Easter Baskets
Weight Watchers Points in this Easter Cupcake Recipe
There are 12 Smart Points per serving of this recipe.
Easy Easter Egg Hunt Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
- 120 grams butter
- 120 grams granulated sugar
- 2 medium free-range eggs
- 120 grams self-raising flour
- 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 2.5 tbsp full fat milk
- 150 grams vanilla frosting
- 4 drops green gel food colouring
- 90 grams mini chocolate Easter eggs 36 eggs in total
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 C/ 180 C fan/ 375 F and line a 12 hole cupcake tin with Easter themed cupcake cases.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift over the flour and stir.
- Add the vanilla and milk, and stir until combined. The batter should be a soft, dropping consistency.
- Spoon into the prepared cupcake cases and bake in the centre of the oven for 15-20 minutes.
- Cool completely before decorating. To make the frosting, tint your favourite vanilla frosting green with a few drops of colour.
- Place the frosting in a piping bag fitted with a grass nozzle and pipe a small clump of grass on the top of each cupcake.
- Finish off with three mini candy Easter eggs.
Video
Notes
Weight Watchers Points in these Easter Egg Hunt Cupcakes
This recipe contains 12 Smart Points per cupcake.Nutrition
Other Easy Easter Recipes for Kids
A few other Easter themed recipes you might like!
The Best Gluten-Free Crème Egg Brownies Recipe
A deliciously moist super chocolatey brownie baked with Creme Egg Easter eggs and drizzled with milk and white chocolates.
Dairy Free Easter Cookies
These cute Dairy Free Easter Cookies are such a treat, and you (or your little helpers) can go mad with the food colouring and icing bag!
3 Ingredient Hot Cross Bun Ice Cream Sandwiches
Celebrate spring and Easter with a tasty 3 ingredient hot cross bun ice cream sandwich! So simple and so delicious!
Easy Rocky Road
This simple Rocky Road Cake is the perfect make-ahead Easter cake packed full of favourites like chocolate, chocolate fingers, mini eggs, marshmallows and Haribo.
Tunnock's Teacake Easter Bunny Bums
Use the iconic Scottish Tunnock's Teacake along with chocolate buttons and marshmallow tails to make oh so cute Easter Bunny Bums.
Vegan Carrot Cake
The perfect vegan carrot cake. It's so simple, moist and flavourful! The batter is prepared in just 15 minutes, then the cake is baked till perfection for an hour.
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Hello Elizabeth
I’m so motivated to cook because of your recipe. Easter is coming, so it’s time to do some Easter cooking! Thanks to your recipe, I got a lot of ideas. I’m going to make your Easter Egg Hunt cupcakes for my family. I love cupcakes and for sure when they are nicely decorated like yours! The recipe is very clear and like you said in the introduction, it’s not difficult to make. This is perfect for me because I’m not that great in the kitchen. All the materials and the steps are well explained. Due to the special recipe, nobody tasted these delicious Easter Egg Hunt cupcakes here before. I even learned a new technique to do the topping! The video adds more value to your food blog. I can’t wait until Easter to make these lovely cupcakes!
Thank you for the amazing recipe.
Jill
These are so pretty, perfect for a special Easter tea.
I think the easter Hunt cupcakes are a great idea for Easter.
Because we celebrate Easter every year with the whole family and every year everyone has to make something to eat, this year I got the dessert and it is ideal for that.
I’ve already tried it before with my birthday, but without decorating it.
I love how simple this is but, tastes amazing. I got all positive reactions: they are not dry, tasted good, filled well,….. To make the cupcakes even more fun, you may also want to add colorants or some cocoa powder to the dough, which gives the cupcakes a different but delicious taste. Thanks for the amazing and tasty idea of the easter Hunt cupcakes, it is definitely a must!
I just love these cupcakes they are so cute! I will have to have a go at the grass icing, I’m not very good at piping but think I might be able to pull it off with your tips and video! So cute for Easter.
Ah these are so cute! Must try them, my children love everything Easter egg related!
I can’t take my eyes off the photo, these cup cakes looks delicious. I need to try this.
Ooh an Easter egg hunt in a cake. What a fun idea. I feel totally deprived as I’ve never been on an Easter egg hunt before, but maybe this is the answer 😀
These cupcakes look so fun and festive! Kids and adults will love these at Easter!
OMG! These cupcakes are so cute! I love this idea for Easter Egg Hunting! My little guy would go crazy for these!
These are absolutely adorable! I can’t wait to make these for Easter!
I love how fun and easy these are! It’s great to be able to include the kiddos in helping out!
These are so cute! I love the whimsical decorations on top!
I haven’t baked anything for the longest time. These have just inspired me to do some baking!