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EASTER RECIPES

Tip:

Gel food colours work
best as they will not
thin out the icing. If you
are using liquid food
colouring, avoid using
too much as this will
make your icing runny.
Once the icing is ready, If your icing becomes Fill a piping bag with the Decorate your cupcakes

add a few drops of green runny, you can add green icing. Using a grass with mini eggs, chocolate
food colouring and mix it more icing sugar to the tip (Wilton 233), pipe your bunnies and flowers.
into the icing until you mix to thicken it up, but grass onto the cupcakes. *
have your desired grass this will make it much
colour. sweeter.

* If you do not have a piping bag or a grass tip, here are some alternatives to get a grass effect:

Colour some desiccated coconut with your
green food colouring and lay it out on a plate
to dry. Spread the icing on the cupcakes with
a knife and once the desiccated coconut is dry,
you can either sprinkle it over the cupcakes or
turn the cupcakes over onto the plate, lightly
pressing down to ensure enough coconut sticks
to the icing to give you the grass effect.

Let your
Spread the icing on the
cupcakes with a fork,
spiking it up to look like imagination
grass as you go along.
run wild and

have fun!

Spread the icing on the
cupcakes with a knife. The kids
Then, using the back of a
spoon, swirl the icing until will love it!
it starts to look like grass.

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