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From Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Julie Johnston shares the recipe for her cute cupcakes with mild orange flavor. "It's fun to dress up these cupcakes for Easter!" she writes. "As we raised four sons and a daughter, I prepared many, many school lunches and often added these springtime treats."
Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 351 calories, 18 g fat (11 g saturated fat), 51 mg cholesterol, 273 mg sodium, 47 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 3 g protein.
Originally published as Cupcake Easter Baskets in Taste of Home April/May 2003, p49
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Reviewed on Mar. 30, 2013 by Stearns22
Wonderful recipe! Very thick batter-just beware of that while baking and spooning into pan. I added orange zest to kick it up a notch in the frosting. For the life of me, I could not get the shoestring licorice to stand up, so I just left it out. They still look great without it! This is now one of my favorite base cupcake batters.
Reviewed on Mar. 16, 2013 by CaitUK
They are delicious without the cheese filling things and i decorated the same as you but i made normal cupcakes wiht the decor!!.Awesome recipe!!
They are delicious without the cheese filling things and i decorated the same as you but i made normal cupcakes wiht the decor!!.
Awesome recipe!!
Reviewed on Apr. 25, 2011 by patriroqt
very cute, very delicious! i doubled the cupcake recipe and made about 40 cupcakes. i did not double the frosting recipe because of what other raters said about there being enough... and even though i had double the cupcakes there was leftover frosting.on taste, the cupcake was delicious! it went with the frosting, coconut, and jelly beans perfectly! the frosting was better than my old vanilla buttercream recipe.and on looks, it was very cute. easy too assemble, except the handle was a little tricky but it worked. and everybody loved it! 5/5
very cute, very delicious! i doubled the cupcake recipe and made about 40 cupcakes. i did not double the frosting recipe because of what other raters said about there being enough... and even though i had double the cupcakes there was leftover frosting.
on taste, the cupcake was delicious! it went with the frosting, coconut, and jelly beans perfectly! the frosting was better than my old vanilla buttercream recipe.
and on looks, it was very cute. easy too assemble, except the handle was a little tricky but it worked. and everybody loved it! 5/5
Reviewed on Apr. 11, 2011 by gollyg629
I made these with my four year old son and we LOVED making them. I just used a store bought cake mix, but did make the frosting and it was so good with it! I cut the frosting recipe in 1/2 also and had enought to frost 24 cupecakes! Thanks for this FUN recipe!
Reviewed on Apr. 07, 2011 by lady_medic
I think your receipe is cute and easy to make. Eighty-six's comments are rude and unnesscary. Thank you for sharing it with everyone.
Reviewed on Mar. 28, 2010 by haileybug01
it was grate.
Reviewed on Mar. 22, 2010 by Eighty-Six
For many years I have been making my original version of Easter Basket Cupcakes which are prettier and easier to make.
Reviewed on Mar. 22, 2010 by tkarinas
These cupcake easter baskets are so sweet and so easy to make, they're a keeper for sure. I have grandchildren and every one of them looks forward to seeing me at Easter as they know they'll get these cupcakes.
Reviewed on Apr. 11, 2009 by brbaker
I made only 1/2 recipe of icing and it was plenty. I had a difficult time finding the licorice rope so I used red licorice twists and inserted a toothpick in each end and then placed in cupcake. The handles are very sturdy.
Reviewed on Apr. 09, 2009 by vivianarnold
The frosting is awesome - light and easy to spread. I only used 1 cup of powdered sugar and it's sweet enough. The frosting recipe made about twice the amount I needed, so next time I'll cut it in half.
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