This weekend we had an early Easter celebration with friends and I was asked to bring dessert. Heaven. In my world, we’d just skip dinner all together and move on to the treats. I guess if there are carrots involved it’s sort of like dinner?
Glad we’re on the same page.
So I started with my mom’s Carrot Cake and Cream Cheese Frosting recipe, which also makes about 22-24 cupcakes. Follow the recipe in the link and bake them for about 18 mins.
While the cupcakes bake, I grabbed simple items from around the house and got crafty.
Who doesn’t love a festive cupcake topper?!
Okay, pretty self-explanatory but here are some tips….
• Use a crayon to color the carrot circle stickers (you can also use orange stickers but I sorta like how the crayon makes it look grainy)
• Use three yarn strings for the carrots, sandwich them between two orange stickers, squeeze together, and cut the sides in an angle, like a carrot.
• Use a Sharpie or marker for bunny faces
• Cut each yarn ear about 2 1/2 -2 3/4 inches long.
• Make tan bunnies, black, whatever!
NOTE: some finished toppers pulled apart a bit from the bulky yarn
in the middle. But overall they worked well and I just squeezed them
together again before our party.
That’s some easy gardening.
The kids wandered in while I was cutting and wanted to make bunnies too. So I let them draw their own and loved what they did.
Bunnies and Carrots!
Chomp, chomp.
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When the cupcakes were cooled and frosted we stuck in the Toppers.
Ready for the party!
And in case you’re wondering what happened to those pretty orange cupcake liners I started with?….I realized after pouring batter into all the cups that I’d forgotten to add the milk.
GRRRR.
So I squeezed the batter from every cup and had to go with the silver liners instead. No big deal but seriously how cute were those orange ones??
Happy Easter!
