An Excellent Easter Cupcake Recipe

Do you need a last-minute Easter dessert? Perhaps, something you can whip up really quickly from items you got from , or even ?

I have a very easy Easter cupcake recipe that is unique and decorative, but very easy to put together. Banana cupcakes, made from scratch, with a strawberry jelly center and topped off with chocolate frosting (mud), green coconut flakes (grass) and candy coated chocolate Easter candy (eggs).

Kids, as well as adults, will love this recipe. Plus, they are really fun to assemble and even more fun to eat. So if you need a quick last-minute idea for an Easter dessert, I hope you'll try this recipe!

Ingredients

1-1/4 cup of flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1/3 cup of sugar

1 ripe banana, chopped

1 egg

1/4 cup of milk

1/4 cup of light oil (canola or extra light olive oil)

seedless strawberry jelly

chocolate frosting

shredded coconut

green food coloring

candy coated chocolates that look like Easter eggs (such as Easter peanut M&Ms)

pastel colored cupcake liners

This recipe makes 9 cupcakes.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder and sugar. Stir to mix. In a small bowl, add your chopped banana and take a handheld mixer and blend the banana chunks until smooth. Don't worry if there are a few little chunks in there.

To the banana mixture, add your egg, milk and oil. Stir until combined. Add the wet ingredients and stir into the dry until well incorporated.

In a muffin tin, add 9 cupcake liners. Spoon some batter into the bottom of each cupcake liners. You'll want the bottom to be covered. Make sure you use equal amounts in each cupcake liner. Take another spoon and scoop a small amount of strawberry jelly and add to the center of each cupcake liner on top of the batter. Take the rest of the batter and spoon equal amounts of it over the top of the jelly making sure it's covered.

Put the muffin tin in the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into one cupcake comes out clean. Let cool. (Do not attempt to frost these cupcakes while they are hot).

While the cupcakes are cooling, scoop about a cup of shredded coconut and dump into a bowl. Add 3 drops of green food coloring and stir very well with a spoon until all the coconut is green. Don't use more than 3 drops!

Now it's time for the fun part! It's time to decorate. Take a butter knife and spread some mud (chocolate frosting) over the top of each cupcake. Then take 2 or 3 eggs (candy-coated chocolate) and place them on top of the frosting. Then sprinkle some grass (green colored coconut flakes) over the top. It's important to put the candy on before the coconut so it can stick to the frosting and hold. Otherwise they will fall off.

You'd think that the different flavors (chocolate, strawberry, banana, coconut, etc.) would compete, but they complement each other very well. Enjoy!