Easter Gift

My friend Tracey over at A Cottage Industry did the cutest Easter gift I've seen in a long time.  I just had to give it a try to give to family and friends on Easter.  The little cupcakes fit with perfection into the egg carton just as Tracey had said. Give these a try I know you'll get rave reviews.  For my cupcakes I made carrot cake with a cream cheese frosting.  See recipe at the bottom of this thread.

Tracey had ordered egg cartons in pretty spring colors, by the time I saw what she had posted I didn't have time to do that so I used regular egg cartons.  At first I was going to try and spray paint them but then decided I was find with the look of the regular carton, in fact I think everyone thought I was bringing them a dozen eggs from our egg lady and they were pleased to find cupcakes instead.

 Since my cartons were ventilated I needed to put the cartons into a bag to keep the cupcakes fresh.  The single bread bags from King Arthur click here worked great, just the right size.  If you are a baker the three sizes of bags that King Arthur carries are wonderful to have on hand.

 

The tags were something I did on my Cricut, obviously I still haven't had time to figure this machine out but the cards were made with pretty paper from Hobby Lobby and I attached them to the ribbons but using an antique button.

Carrot Cake

2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups white sugar

2 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

1 1/4 cups cooking oil

3 cups shredded carrots

4 eggs

Sift dry ingredience, add oil and mix well.  Add eggs, one at a time and then add carrots.  Mix well and bake at 350 for 45 minutes for a 9X13 or two round cake pans.  For the mini muffins I adjusted the baking time to 20 minutes.

Cream Cheese Frosting

 1 8oz. package of cream cheese

1 stick softened butter

1 lb. package powdered sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

Cream cheese and butter together.  Gradually add sugar mixing well after each addition.  Add vanilla.

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