I made these Strawberry Pistachio Cupcakes as a fun spring treat! I made this treat easy to make by using cake mixes and Wilton decorating supplies. The PEEPSĀ® look like they want to sit in a nest, so I made a nest with some blue and green edible Easter grass. Iād love for you to Pin It to your Easter or Recipe board! Hereās how I made these cupcakes:
- Yellow Cake Mix
- Strawberry Cake Mix
- Pistachio Instant Pudding (3.4 oz)
- Water (as needed for 2 boxes of cake mix)
- Oil (as needed for 2 boxes of cake mix)
- Eggs (as needed for 2 boxes of cake mix)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray two cupcake pans with no-stick cooking spray with flour.
- Follow cake mix directions to prepare Yellow Cake Mix in one bowl and Strawberry Cake Mix in a second bowl.
- Pour half of the Yellow Cake Mix into a third bowl.
- Beat in the Pistachio Instant Pudding into the third bowl.
- Drop spoonfuls of cake batter into the cupcake pans, alternating between the three flavors.
- Bake for time indicated on the cake mix directions.
- Cool then decorate.
I used Wilton products to help me decorate my Strawberry Pistachio Cupcakes. I used edible Easter grass for the PEEPSĀ® to nest in. I used a Wilton 1M decorating tip to apply green and pink frosting to my cupcakes. It was my first time to use the Wilton Royal Icing Mix and Wilton Icing Colors and I loved that the icing dries hard and itās easy to get just the right color using the concentrated gel colors.
My photo below shows how I spooned each of the three cake mixes into the cupcake pan to achieve the marbled cupcake above. Next time I wonāt fill the cupcake pan as full with batter because my cupcake tops baked right into each other. I didnāt use baking cups in my Wilton cupcake pan because they release so easily after baking itās just not needed! But I did put my cupcakes in pink and green baking cups after I baked them so Iād get a pretty contrast to the Wilton Cupcake Wraps that look like white picket fences.
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Consumer Reports warns that Peeps may contain cancer-causing dyes.
Appreciate the alert!
Oh, I want to try the lemonade flavored Peeps. I havenāt seen these yet, but I am going out for Easter basket goodies tonight and will have to look for them!
Hope you can find them ā I love it when new Peeps flavors are unveiled!
Looks so delicious! My kids will love this Easter treat
Thanks so much! My son wanted to put Peeps on EVERYTHING we made for Easter that was sweet this year.
Looks like peeps has some new flavors! I <3 Wilton Candy Melts. They are the best and I always buy them at Wal-mart for much cheaper than any other store. Great giveaway. Thanks Heather!
Yes ā there are new Peeps flavors! Hope you get to try them!