Peeps Chick Nest Cupcakes
Cupcake topped with edible grass, chocolate egg, and Peeps chick.
Ingredients
- 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter; softened
- 3 egg whites; room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 cups confectioner's sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter; room temperature
- 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
- 12 purple peeps chicks
- 12 Hershey's milk chocolate candy eggs
- 3 packages edible grass green
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place cupcake liners in a cupcake pan. Double the liners. Sift the flour, sugar salt, baking soda and powder into a large bowl, and whisk together.
- Separate the eggs. In another bowl or stand mixer, whisk together the wet ingredients until combined. The batter will be lumpy.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix until combined. Distribute the batter evenly into cupcake liners, filling each paper with mix about 2/3 of the way up.
- Bake for about 22 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean.
- Whip the butter and salt for about a minute using a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.
- Sift in the confectioner’s sugar in several batches beating on low after each addition. Scrape the bowl down and repeat the process.
- Add a tablespoon of the cream while mixing on low then add the vanilla. Beat until you have an even, fluffy consistency.
- Pipe white frosting onto the cupcakes. Pull some edible grass from the pack and roll and set on top. Place the peeps chick and an egg on top of the edible grass.