Hoppy Easter!

Every year my husband’s work holds an auction to help raise money for charity. As you all know I L-O-V-E to bake so I take this opportunity to bake my little heart out. Unfortunately this year my sweet procrastinator of a husband let me know on Wednesday that the auction was today....only leaving me one day to bake. Ugh. So instead of sending in a variety of delectable’s I only had time to do one.

Being close to Easter I saw these amazingly cute cupcakes online. I added a Marshmallow Cream center and a few unique flares of my own and Voila! Total cupcake cuteness!

The only thing I did not anticipate was how much time it would take to place all the embellishments on the bunny faces using a pair of kitchen tweezers. 24 cupcakes....all with faces...and pink pearl polka dots....that equals 144 whiskers, 48 eyes, 24 noses, 48 sprinkle dipped marshmallow ears and about 288 polka dots...all by hand. For those of you that have never worked with tweezers and sprinkles it can be really frustrating! If you squeeze too hard the sprinkle bursts into dust, squeeze too lightly and it pops right out of the tweezers and rolls across the counter and onto the floor where your pet wiener dogs awaits with gleeful anticipation. I lost half the bottle of pink pearls to that dog.

From start to finish these baking beauties took 6 hours, an afternoon well spent in my book! Of course I ate one just to make sure they were yummy and man were they ever! The marshmallow cream center is a total keeper!!

Coming soon- Coconut Chick Cupcakes with marshmallow cream centers! Stay tuned!!