Spring Cupcakes

With spring just around the corner and Easter just a day away, we thought it would only be right to give you a creative and delicious way to bring Easter into your house with a simple, yet fabulous recipe. 

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The Finished Product

Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes:
     1 Cup Sugar
     1/2 Cup Softened Butter 
     2 Eggs 
     2 Teaspoons Pure Vanilla Or Vanilla Extract 
     1-1/2 Cups Flour 
     1-2/3 Teaspoons of Baking Powder
     Dash Of Salt 
     1/2 cup of milk 

Icing:
     1/2 Cup Butter
     2 Cups of Icing Sugar 
     3 Tablespoons Cream  

Topping:

      2 Cups Coconut 
      Mini Chocolate Eggs    

Directions
Cupcakes:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 
2. In a large bowl mix butter and sugar together until light and fluffy
3. Add in eggs, then add in vanilla and mix well
4. In a separate and smaller bowl mix dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and salt together
5. After mixing, slowly combined the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir well until all ingredients are mixed
6. Stir in the skim milk until the cupcake batter is creamy and smooth
7. Line up 12 paper liners in a muffin pan or grease the pan so cupcakes will not stick. Pour in batter filling about 3/4 full in each cup
8. Place in oven, set timer for about 18 minutes, wait to take the cupcakes out until tops of each are golden. when done remove from oven and set side to cool down

Icing:

1. In a  large bowl mix icing sugar and warm butter until thick and creamy, once the the frosting is smooth, add in cream to thin and mix thoroughly
2. Then frost your cupcakes   

Topping:

1. Preheat the over to 350 degrees F. 
2. Spread out coconut on a cookie sheet 
3. Place in oven from about 5 minuets,  frequently check as the coconut can burn fast so. Take out the coconut once it is a golden color
4. Sprinkle and roll cupcake tops in coconut 
5. Cover the bottom of mini eggs with icing and stick to cupcake (3 mini egg per cupcake)
6. Sprinkle more coconut on cupcakes to cover up the icing on the mini eggs
7. Eat & Enjoy