It’s Pinata Cupcakes! It’s colorful and sweet. The kids love it.
Pinata Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
- box chocolate cake mix
- 3 cups sweetened shredded coconut
- Yellow, red and blue food coloring
- 1/2 cup mini candy-coated chocolates
- 0.5 cup cup Nerds
- 0.5 rainbow nonpareil sprinkles
- 3 cups vanilla frosting
Instructions
- Bake 24 cupcakes according to the box instructions. Let cool completely.
- Pour 1 cup of the shredded coconut into a bowl.
- Add 3 teaspoons of yellow food coloring and whisk with a hand mixer on low until coconut is bright yellow.
- Set aside
- Add 1 cup shredded coconut to another bowl. Add 3 teaspoons of yellow food coloring and 1 1/2 teaspoons red food coloring then turn the mixer on low.
- Mix until the coconut is a uniform reddish orange. Set that one too aside
- In a separate bowl, add the remaining 1 cup coconut.
- Turn the mixer on low and add 6 to 8 drops of blue food coloring.
- Mix until the coconut is a uniform bright blue. Transfer to a third bowl.
- Mix together the chocolate candies, fruit candies, and nonpareils in a medium bowl.
- Set aside.
- Using a 1/2-inch round cutter, cut out a well in each cupcake.
- Then use a small spoon to scoop out the wells.
- Fill each cupcake well about 2 teaspoons with the mixed candy.
- Cover the holes with the cut-out tops of the cupcakes.
- Frost the cupcakes with the vanilla frosting.
- Press some of the blue coconuts onto the outer third of the top of each cupcake to form a stripe.
- Then press some of the yellow coconuts in the center third and finally the orange coconut in the final third.
- You should have 3 equal stripes on the top of each cupcake.
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