Pastel Cupcakes for Easter

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I’m really excited to share these cupcakes today! When I made our Rainbow Cupcakes, I thought, I wonder how this would look with some cute pastel cake batter and frosting? Needless to say, of course they turned out adorable! We topped them with some Cadbury Mini Eggs, and they are super cute. Let’s talk about how to make these pastel cupcakes for Easter!

We simply used white cake mix, plus some pretty gel food coloring to make these. We layered the cake batter, and then we topped them with our favorite whipped cream cheese frosting dyed similar colors with more gel food coloring! Gel food coloring always gives the best colors, and for these pastel cupcakes you only need a couple drops of each color.

We developed a bit of a technique for layering cake batter when we made our rainbow cupcakes, and while it’s ultimately a toss up as to how well your colors layer or mix after the fact, I felt like these turned out great.

Pastel Cupcake Ingredients

Here’s the full list of what you’ll need to make these-

• 1 box of white cake mix (we used Betty Crocker), plus the ingredients on the back (eggs, water, oil)
• Gel food coloring in your desired colors- we used pink, teal, and purple.
• 8 oz. cream cheese
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• Cadbury Mini Eggs for topping

Here’s how you make these pastel Easter cupcakes-

Easter Cupcake Directions

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees farenheit.
• In a large mixing bowl, prepare the white cake mix, according to box directions.
• Once mixed together, separate cake batter into 3 separate bowls.
• Add 2-3 drops of gel food coloring in one of each of your colors, to one bowl. Stir to incorporate the food coloring.

• Add cupcake liners to a muffin tin, then start adding your cake batter to your liners.
• You’ll want to only fill the liners about 2/3 full, and you want to do 1/3 of that with one of each of your colored cake batter.
• To get layered colors, you want to add your batter in nice even layers. We have used frosting piping bags to easily snip off the end and pipe the cake batter right into the cupcake liners.
• Fill your cupcake liner just a bit with one color, a little more with another color, then fill to 2/3 with the final color. If you have extra, you can always start the colors over again for more layers!
• Bake the cupcakes according to the box directions.

• Meanwhile, prepare your frosting. Start by adding the 1 1/2 cups of heavy cream to a large mixing bowl. Beat on medium speed for 3-4 minutes, until whipped cream begins to form peaks.
• In a separate mixing bowl, mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar until light, and fluffy, and incorporated together.
• Add vanilla, and mix well to combine.
• Fold the whipped cream mixture from the first bowl into your butter and sugar mixer, folding until the frosting is all combined.
• Add your food coloring color of choice, or you can also separate the icing into multiple bowls to do different colors, just like we did with the cake batter.
• Once the cupcakes have finished baking and cooled completely, use a frosting bag and your favorite frosting tip to pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes, then top with 2-3 Cadbury mini eggs for some adorable pastel Easter cupcake treats.

You can get a printable version of this recipe below. If you make it and enjoy it, please consider sharing on Pinterest or Facebook!

To make these cupcakes, these supplies might come in handy-

You might also like these super fun Rainbow Cupcakes!

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