These easy Bird's Nest Easter Cupcakes take a simple cupcake recipe and turns it into a special dessert for your Easter table.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword easter cupcakes
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 25 minutesminutes
Total Time 55 minutesminutes
Servings 24
Calories 217kcal
Author Kat Jeter & Melinda Caldwell
Ingredients
15.5ounceBox Devil's Food cake mixplus ingredients listed on the back of the box
16ouncesChocolate frosting
10.5ouncesMarshmallow Fluff
6tablespoonsButterunsalted
72Cadbury Mini Chocolate Eggs
Instructions
Cupcakes
Bake cupcakes according to the instructions on the box.
After cupcakes have cooled completely use a sharp knife to cut a hole into each cupcake, do NOT go all the way through the bottom.
Save the piece that comes out of the hole and trim it so that it is a small "lid". Set next to the cupcake it came from.
Use a spoon to fill each hole with marshmallow cream.
Place the corresponding lid on top of each cupcake hole, capping off the marshmallow filling.
Fit your pastry bag with your tip and fill the bag with a multi-opening tip (sometimes called a grass tip) with chocolate frosting and pipe it on the top of the cupcake in a circle. Create a single layer over the top of the cupcake and then go around the outer edge of the cupcake 2 or 3 more times to build up the sides of the nest.
Add three candy eggs to each nest.
Enjoy!
Marshmallow Fluff
Melt 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter
Add melted butter to 10.5 ounces of marshmallow fluff.