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Easter Treats

Tip:
DECORATING Gel food colours work best as
• Fill a piping bag with the green icing. * they will not thin out the icing.
• Use a grass tip (Wilton 233) to pipe your If you are using liquid food
grass onto the cupcakes. * colouring, avoid using too much
• Decorate your cupcakes with mini eggs, as this will make your icing
chocolate bunnies and flowers. runny. If it does become runny,
• Let your imagination run wild and have you can add more icing sugar to
fun with it – the kids will love it! the mix to thicken it up, 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
Then, using spiking it up on the cupcakes with a knife
the back of a to look like and once the desiccated
spoon, swirl grass as you coconut is dry, you can either
the icing go along. sprinkle it over the cupcakes
until it starts or turn the cupcakes over
to look like onto the plate, lightly pressing
grass. down to ensure enough
coconut sticks to the icing to
give you the grass effect.

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