Spring Chick Cupcakes for Easter

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Chocolate cupcakes all dressed up for Easter as spring chicks.

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Decorating Time 15

Total Time 30

Servings cupcakes

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line two cupcake pans with liners. Set aside.
In a large bowl, add the cake mix, eggs, oil, and water. Beat on low until just combined then beat on medium for two minutes.
15.25 oz chocolate cake mix, 3 large eggs, ½ cup vegetable oil, 1 cup water
Use a cookie scoop to fill each cupcake well about 3/4 full.
Bake for 19-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
LET FULLY COOL.
Once your cupcakes have cooled, give them a coat of yellow frosting.
Neon Yellow Vanilla Funfetti frosting
Dip the frosted cupcake into the yellow sanding sugar.
yellow sanding sugar
With more yellow frosting, pipe on some feathers/hair and the wings (these look like a "7" and a backwards 7).
Switch over to orange frosting and pipe on a beak and little feet.
Orange All Star Vanilla Funfetti frosting
Pop in two candy eyeballs and use black gel icing to draw on the pupils and give them some personality.
candy eye balls, black gel icing

Use whichever Pillsbury cake mix is your favorite - Funfetti would be really cute.
I also used some Funfetti Vanilla Marshmallow frosting to frost a few cupcakes and added sanding sugar stripes to look like Easter eggs.