14 Easy and Adorable Easter Cupcake Decorating Ideas

Use our lemon-scented cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting as the base for any of these decorating ideas. Get the recipe!

Turn bite-sized mini cupcakes into chirping spring chicks. Start with a layer of robin's-egg blue frosting, then top with a beak fashioned from fruit leather triangles and mini chocolate chip eyes. Present in a "nest" of shredded paper or Easter grass.

Kids will love using chocolate chips, chewing gum and mini marshmallows to create their own lamb cupcakes. To create the lamb's ears, cut a slice of a full-sized marshmallow, cut it in half and then cut it into quarters. Attach to a frosted white cupcake alongside the eyes.

Ring in spring with this brightly colored cupcake topped with a "nest" of edible Easter grass and a few speckled malted milk eggs. To make the nest, twist several pieces of the grass into a circle, then wrap another strand around to secure.