official easter cupcakes

better late than never! here are the easter cupcakes i made last weekend for our easter sunday dinner. i decided on two flavors, coconut and lemon and made regular size as well as mini cupcakes. they were good, even though i messed up the coconut ones and forgot to add the third egg ;) i had more fun with my grass piping tip and i attempted to 'stripe' the piping bag for the lemon cupcakes and it turned out alright. i am on the waiting list for the next decorating class so fingers crossed and we may have some cupcake bouquets in the future! xo

noix de coco

spring is in the air :) and tonight we had some friends over for dinner, so for dessert i baked these coconut cupcakes with vanilla butter cream frosting. they were really good! definitely a contender and will be making it into the next voting round. i toasted the coconut myself for the topping and swirled on the frosting instead of piping it. deciding to use vanilla frosting rather than coconut frosting is key in this combination, the cake was lovely and light so adding more coconut may have over done that flavor. i am hoping to do a bit more baking this weekend as well as enjoy the weather!