Cute Easter Basket Cupcakes!

I have been loving making cupcakes lately, and here's my version of a recipe I found on the Disney Family Fun site.
You will need:

-Cake Mix (any flavor you want)

-White Icing

-Mini Robin Eggs

-Bag of Sweetened Flake Coconut

-Twizzlers

-Bag of Assorted Easter Chocolates

-Tooth picks

The kind of candy eggs I used---Whopper's Mini Robin Eggs. The regular size are too big for cupcakes.

The candy I used: Palmers Peter's Sweet Shop Assorted Easter Chocolates

I was specifically looking for little bunnies, which is why I bought Palmer's...they had these adorable fudge bunnies!

I got chocolate Twizzlers because I thought the brown would look better as the basket handle, and I don't like the other flavors, but you can get the black or red ones, whichever you prefer.

You will also need some green food coloring

Optional--green decorative crystals

Optional---Ribbon and cellophane

DIRECTIONS:

Prepare the cake mix according to the directions. Bake and allow to cool for about 20-25 minutes.

Lightly ice the cupcakes

Add a few drops of the green food coloring to the coconut flakes and mix well.

Start by adding a few drops and slowly add to it until it reaches and pretty bright green.

Put a spoonful atop a cupcake and gently press into the icing.

Now the fun part!

Unwrap a fudge bunny and push a tooth pick in the bottom, and stick it into the cupcake. Put a few eggs in front of him.

Take a Twizzler (no need to cut them, they are conveniently the perfect length!) and push a tooth pick into each end. Secure into opposite sided of the cupcake to look like a basket handle.

The finished product:

 I made quite a few!

I used the green crystals on a few of the cupcakes because I do not like coconut and I wanted to be able to eat one! 

To make them cute, I wrapped them in cellophane and tied with a ribbon. I took these to my family Easter dinner (we had it early this year).

I also individually wrapped some for friends :)

I hope you enjoyed this! Do you have any cute cupcake suggestions?

My friend Tasha also likes baking cupcakes, go checkout her Cupcake Blog: My Cupcakes

Have a wonderful Easter! :)