This Easter, decorate this cute little Jelly bean cupcake basket. You can choose fom other candies also.The kids and I chose to use cadbury’s speckled chocolate eggs, Skittles and M&M”s. Whatever you choose to decrate these lil basket”s with don’t leave out the love and fun of doing it as a family. Especially the true meaning of the Easter Holiday.

Ingredients

• 1 dozen cupcakes
• 1 bag jelly beans
• 2 cups white icing
• Sweetened coconut, colored with green food coloring

Instructions

1. First, frost the cupcakes with white icing. Bend a pipe cleaner or a piece of red licorice into an arch and push the ends into the sides of each cupcake.
2. Shake the shredded coconut in a stainless steel bowl. Sprinkle on food coloring bit by bit, mixing vigorously to distribute the color
3. Place a pinch of shredded coconut on each iced cupcake. Now place three jelly beans on the “nest” of coconut.
4. Tie a small ribbon bow on the pipe cleaner or licorice handle at a jaunty angle.
5. Put one cupcake basket by each place setting at Easter brunch or give them as gifts

Source: Family Fun