Cupcakes & Frosting Ingredients:
- 6 oz. - cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup - butter or margarine, softened (2 sticks)
- 1 tablespoon - vanilla flavoring
- 1 - (2 lb.) pkg. Domino® Confectioners Sugar
- 2/3 cup - milk, divided
- 4 - large eggs, slightly beaten
- 2 1/2 cups - all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon - baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon - salt
- 2/3 cup - water
Decorating Ingredients:
- 1 (14 oz.) bag - shredded coconut
- yellow food coloring
- 1 (12 oz.) bag - small chocolate-coated chocolates
- 24 - orange jellybeans or gumdrops
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 muffin pans with paper liners.
Frosting:
In large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla flavoring at medium speed until smooth. Add confectioners' sugar alternately with 1/3 cup milk, beating 1-2 minutes or until blended. Remove 2 1/2 glasses of frosting from bowl, placing right into a separate bowl, and hang aside.
Cupcake:
With mixer at slow speed, add eggs and 1/3 cup milk to remaining frosting in mixing bowl. Beat until blended. In separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add flour mixture to frosting mixture alternately with water and continue beating 1-2 minutes or until well blended.
Pour to fill muffin cups midway, and bake 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick placed in the heart of a cupcake arrives clean. Awesome completely before frosting.
To Create Baby Chicks:
Before decorating cupcakes, make certain they've completely cooled remove from muffin tins.
Place shredded coconut inside a large resealable food-storage plastic bag. Add 2-3 drops yellow food coloring seal bag and shake to paint coconut put aside.
Add 2-3 drops yellow food coloring to reserved frosting. Mix until well combined and preferred color is arrived at. Utilizing a butter knife, or icing knife, spread yellow buttercream frosting onto cupcakes. Roll tops of cupcakes in coconut to pay for.
For eyes, add two brown small chocolate-coated chocolate pieces in center of cupcakes. For beaks, use orange jellybeans or small gumdrops, and flatten having a moving pin. Having a paring knife, trim flattened gum drops into triangles to resemble beaks put on cupcakes.
Add more yellow coconut to create a Mohawk towards the mind of the people chick, after adding eyes and beak.
Makes about 24 cupcakes