Easter Basket Cupcakes

These are the cutest things ever!!!! Thanks to Disney Family Fun for these darling Edible Easter Basket Cupcakes!!

Ingredients

• 1 dozen cupcakes
• 1 bag jelly beans

• 2 cups white icing
• Sweetened coconut, colored with green food coloring
• Pipe cleaners or red licorice
• Small ribbon

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.
   
   

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