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Easter Treats

DECORATING Tip:
• Fill a piping bag with the green icing. * Gel food colours work best as they will not
• Use a grass tip (Wilton 233) to pipe your thin out the icing. If you are using liquid
grass onto the cupcakes. * food colouring, avoid using too much as
• Decorate your cupcakes with mini eggs, this will make your icing runny. If it does
chocolate bunnies and flowers. become runny, you can add more icing
• Let your imagination run wild and have sugar to the mix to thicken it up,
fun with it – the kids will love it! but this will make it much sweeter.

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

• Spread the • Spread the • Colour some desiccated
icing on the icing on the coconut with green food
cupcakes cupcakes colouring and lay it out on a
with a knife. with a fork, plate to dry. Spread the icing on
Then, using spiking it up the cupcakes with a knife and
the back of a to look like once the desiccated coconut is
spoon, swirl grass as you dry, you can either sprinkle it
the icing go along. over the cupcakes or turn the
until it starts cupcakes over onto the plate,
to look like lightly pressing down to ensure
grass. enough coconut sticks to the
icing to give you the grass
effect.

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