I’m jumping for joy because we’re on Spring break this week. Although, we had snow yesterday…boo! It’s cold today, but I just know that warmer weather is around the corner. Or at least – it better be! Or else, Mother Nature is fired!!!
To celebrate spring, here are some super simple and fun Carrot Cupcakes! Well, more like carrot garden cupcakes….topped with yummy Oreo dirt and filled with yummy chocolate pudding!
We totally have Spring and Easter on our minds. I just posted these fun Easter Peeps S’Mores the other day! They were a big hit! Okay, now on to this glorious cupcake recipe…the printable is down towards the bottom if you want to print it out and put in your recipe box!
Garden Carrot Cupcakes
(Yield 24 cupcakes)
INGREDIENTS
CAKE:
1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
3 Eggs
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
PUDDING:
1 box Instant Chocolate Pudding
2 cups Milk
ICING:
1 cup Butter softened
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
5 cup Powdered Sugar
4 tbsp Milk
DECORATIONS:
24 Oreos (or 1 bage Mini Oreos) crushed
72 Orange Mike & Ikes
1 package Edible Easter Grass
DIRECTIONS
Make cupcakes according to box directions.
Make Pudding according to box directions.
Cut a small square in the top of each cupcake and remove a chunk from the middle of the cupcake.
Place pudding in zippered bag and clip corner to pipe.
Pipe pudding into the middle of each cupcake.
Place the top of the “plug” back on each hole.
Cream butter and cocoa together until smooth.
Add in powdered sugar.
Add milk in slowly until frosting reaches right consistency.
Frost each cupcake.
Dust frosting with crushed Oreos.
Cut easter grass into 1″ lengths (these are the grees at the end of the carrots).
Take a toothpick or skewer and make a hole in the end of each piece of candy and insert some of the greens in each.
Stick several carrots down into the top of each cupcake.
Enjoy!!!
- CAKE:
- 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
- 3 Eggs
- 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
- PUDDING:
- 1 box Instant Chocolate Pudding
- 2 cups Milk
- ICING:
- 1 cup Butter softened
- 1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
- 5 cup Powdered Sugar
- 4 tbsp Milk
- DECORATIONS:
- 24 Oreos (or 1 bage MIni Oreos) crushed
- 72 Orange Mike & Ikes
- 1 package Edible Easter Grass
- DIRECTIONS
- Make cupcakes according to box directions.
- Make Pudding according to box directions.
- Cut a small square in the top of each cupcake and remove a chunk from the middle of the cupcake.
- Place pudding in zippered bag and clip corner to pipe.
- Pipe pudding into the middle of each cupcake.
- Place the top of the “plug” back on each hole.
- Cream butter and cocoa together until smooth.
- Add in powdered sugar.
- Add milk in slowly until frosting reaches right consistency.
- Frost each cupcake.
- Dust frosting with crushed Oreos.
- Cut easter grass into 1″ lengths (these are the grees at the end of the carrots).
- Take a toothpick or skewer and make a hole in the end of each piece of candy and insert som eof the greens in each.
- Stick several carrots down into the top of each cupcake.
- Enjoy!!!
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