Easy Cute Easter Basket Cupcakes
What is Easter without cupcakes?!! Making cupcakes that look like Easter Baskets, makes for a special treat on Easter Sunday. These Easter Basket Cupcakes will be a fun hit this Easter! They are much easier to make than you are thinking!
Easter Basket Cupcakes Ingredients:
- box cake mix
- Easter cupcake liners
- food coloring
- semi-sweet coconut shavings
- Edible Easter Basket Grass
- chocolate mini-bunny
- jelly beans or Cadbury Easter Candy Coated Mini Eggs
- cake icing
Really with this you can use a chocolate cake or white cake mix. If you use a white cake mix you can use a little food coloring to give it an Easter color if you like. I made mine green. Also, look around and find a cute Easter cupcake paper to give them an extra touch.
While your cupcakes are cooking you can color your semi-sweet coconut. To do this just put a few drops of food coloring in a zip-lock bag with the coconut and shake. Tip: When making pink only use 1 drop of red food coloring.
You can find Edible Easter Basket Grass to use as the handles. Just cut to the length you want.
Take your icing and put a little food color in to match your coconut colors. Now you have everything ready to put them together.
First put the icing on….it does not take a lot. Just enough to make the coconut stick. Then add the coconut of the matching color. Next, stick in a chocolate mini-bunny and place a few jelly beans or Cadbury Easter Candy Coated Mini Eggs. Lastly, place the edible grass on top. Those make take a little bit of time to place but, the trick is to stick them down in the icing.
Then you are Done! An impressive treat your kids and family will love!
- box cake mix
- Easter cupcake liners
- food coloring
- semi-sweet coconut shavings
- Edible Easter Basket Grass
- chocolate mini-bunny
- jelly beans or Cadbury Easter Candy Coated Mini Eggs
- cake icing
- Bake cupcakes according to box directions. Except, add food coloring if you like.
- Coconut Color. To do this just put a few drops of food coloring in a zip-lock bag with the coconut and shake. Tip: When making pink only use 1 drop of red food coloring.
- Use Edible Easter Basket Grass to make the basket handles. Just cut to the length you want.
- Take the icing and put a little food color in to match your coconut colors. Now you have everything ready to put them together.
- First put the icing on….it does not take a lot. Just enough to make the coconut stick. Then add the coconut of the matching color.
- Next, place on a chocolate mini-bunny along with a few jelly beans or Cadbury Easter Candy Coated Mini Eggs.
- Lastly, place the edible grass on top to make the basket handles. Those make take a little bit of time to place but, the trick is to stick them down in the icing.

Such a cute idea! I love the use of coconut for grass instead of icing, I tried using a tip to make icing grass… not fun! Also, the cupcake liners are PERFECT! I need to find me some of those liners 😉 Thanks for joining in the fun at our #PinUP Pin Party!!
Dawn from pin-n-tell.com
These cupcakes are so cute! I love the cupcake liners, they really add a nice touch!
At first glance I really thought these were Easter baskets lol! I love this recipe. Thank you for posting it.
I love this… I will try to make these this Easter it’s right around the corner. I love this idea so much I’ll be sure to pin it so I don’t forget (:
I really like these. They rally do look like little Easter baskets.. I’m going to make these for my grand children for Easter. Thanks for the recipe and idea. I’m sure they will love them.
Those little baskets are so pretty! I think I’ll make them for my Sunday School class.
Those are really cute. The perfect size for a younger child that you don’t want to have too much candy. Or, take them in as a school treat.
What a great idea and I was not aware that they now made edible grass. This would be great for so many easter ocassions.
Such a wonderful and fun idea, I am sure my grandchildren will love making these. Thanks for sharing and I do love that they are not hard to make..
These are super cute and so creative I have to make this for Easter thanks for sharing this one.
I love different kinds of cupcakes. I’ll try it.
These are just adorable!!!!!! I will definitely be making these this Easter.
These look wonderful. I think I will have to try them before hand just to make sure they aren’t a fail on Easter. 🙂
These little Easter baskets are so cute! I’ve been so busy I almost forgot Easter is fast approaching!
I think I need to make these for my son to share at school, super cute!
Bookmarked to do with my daughter 🙂
This is so cute. Me & my daughter can’t wait to make this. Thanks for the great idea
These are so cute and unique. My grandkids would love to makethese. I love the completed look. Great Easter craft to do with the kids. Thank you for sharing.
Carol L
This is so adorable and is a great idea for Easter. The Easter basket will be perfect for my nephew who is still little. Thank you.
My son and I love to bake together! These are so adorable and I am saving the recipe! Thank you for sharing 🙂
How cute.. think I’m going to try this.. ty
What a cute idea! And they do look really easy to make. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
Love it! Too cute. I’m going to do this for the kids in our family at our annual Easter Egg Hunt.
These are just so cute. Great idea. Thanks for the recipe.
I’m making these right now and they look great
Those look very cute and very yummy! Thank you for sharing!
Very nice! I’ve never seen anything like these before 🙂
Adorable! Never heard of Edible Easter Basket Grass before.
These are adorable and it does not look that difficult. I will give them a try, thanks
These are really cute cupcake ideas I might give it a try thanks for sharing the recipe and direction on how to do it right.
These are so cute and will be fun making for my grandchildren. They will just love them.
How cute! I love the pastel colors. What a great idea for my nieces to make.
Wow ~ these are really amazing! Very, very impressive. Dazzle your family, party guests or if you’re feeling really flush, make a few dozen for your child’s classmates and teachers!
At first I thought “Whoa! This looks like a lot of complicated, time consuming work!” But after reading your recipe and descriptive photos, I thought, “Hey, I can do this!” Very nice. Thanks for sharing : I shared too by tweeting and pinning.
Oh wow these are great ideals how make Easter cake. thank you for sharing this on here.
These are so adorable! I’ve haven’t seen those cupcake cups they are so cute! I’ll have to look for them, I love these!
How cute is that!
these are so stinking cute.i thought it was a real easter basket at first.adorable yummy looking cupcakes
Adorabke
This is really cute and would definitely stand out in a party! I love how it’s not difficult to make either!
I love this idea easy to do and great for the kids for easter..
Adorable! My daughters would love doing this.
This recipe looks super easy and super cute. I may try this one.
OMG they are adorable. Kids will love them.
Thank you will do this probably with some variations
These are super cute. I will have to give these a try. Thank you for sharing
I really like the simple projects that require a few things and look so cute like these baskets. Pinning this one for the kiddos as a project.
Those are cute. It’s a project that the kids can help with. Even if it’s only eating the candy.
These are so cute, I wanna make these for my sons class.
Oh my goodness, these are so cute! I can’t believe how easy this is. I never would have guessed it because they look so great. I can’t wait to try this out!
Thank you for the recipe. So very cute. We may have to give this a try.
This is such a cute idea to do with the little ones. I can’t wait to do this with my grandchildren.
Such a clever and cute idea! Thanks for sharing!
these are so cute and at the same time a fantastic way to get the kids involved and cut down on the cost of easter goodies. I love it thanks for sharing
Oh my gosh!!!! These are so cute! I’m sure you have heard that from everyone– I think I’ll make only a few of these with a 1/2 cake mix so if they don’t get eaten at least I don’t have to toss to much– Thanks for the great idea
i dont celebrate easter but these are very cute and the idea can be transitioned to other events and holidays, even bdays. so cute and easy to make as well.
I REALLY think this is SO CUTE I LOVE holidays n sweets
Absolutely adorable!
How cute are these and it is something I can let my grandkids do with me , they are so cute and there not that hard to make
They are cute. That sounds like something the kids would really enjoy.
This is such a cute and special idea to do with the little ones.
This is so adorable. I love that it is easy and can use simple ingredients.
Oh How much fun would these be for me and my grandkids to do I could make these on any day with them and they are easy to make and fun
This absolutely too cute! I’ll have to try it next year for my granddaughter!
I like these very much. The overall design and shape for the basket is very unique. My favorite part is the cut out area you made on the cupcake paper. I might vary the recipe by substituting a licorice-type candy, like Twizzlers, for the handles. That kind of a color would really make the overall look ‘pop’!
What an adorable cupcake. Perfect for a family, Easter get together. Makes for a fun project for the kids. I could try them but I am sure mine would not turn out as cute as yours did.
So cute and creative – I’m going to have to add this to my list for Easter activities!!!
I love this idea, easy enough to make yet the results are absolutely adorable! Using coconut on top is just perfect for the grass.
These are adorable. Thanks for the idea.
These Easter basket cupcakes look really scrumptious and fun to make; I’ll definitely try these out! Thanks for posting!
So cute, my granddaughter would love these
these are so cute
very creative cupcakes! I love the new cupcake papers available, they are so classy. I can’t wait to try these! Thanks for sharing.
Those are so cute! I’ve never used (or eaten) edible Easter basket grass. Does it come in different colors?
These look like mini Easter baskets. So cute!
Simple can be the best way to go. Very cute and yummy. Love the use of the Easter grass as the handles. That is so creative. Thanks.
These cupcakes are adorable, I’m looking forward to trying this recipe out! Thanks for posting.
What a fun idea and they are so pretty too. How creative!
These are so darling and they look easy and fun to make. I love this creative idea.
OH my!! These are so super adorable!! How fun for Easter!!
I’ve never seen cake liners like these before – they’re so sweet!
I think this looks wonderful. I am going to try it out for the holiday.
oh this awesome! My nieces and nephews are spending their easter holiday with me and these would be such fun things to do with them. thanks so much! 🙂
These are adorable cupcakes! I’ll definitely want to give these a try, thanks for posting!
Love this post ad the creativity involved! Thanks for sharing and I will try and make them myslef!
Thanks for sharing these are so cute!!
these are the cutest cupcakes I have ever seen
soo cute but need more info.
Those look adorable and super cute ! great recipe.
my are these ever adorable! thank you for sharing!
So cute and adorable! Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe.