Easter Bonnets
Easy to make and delicious, these beautiful Easter Bonnets will give your Sunday celebration a stylish flare.
Prep time: 15 min.
Baking time: 12 min.
Decoration time: 40 min.
Difficulty: Challenging
What you'll need:
- 1 bag each of M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies for Easter, STARBURST® Brand Jellybeans, SKITTLES® Brand Bite Size Candies for Easter, STARBURST® Brand FUN SIZE® Fruit Chews for Easter
- 10 medium cupcakes (2-1/2-inch), store bought or homemade
- 1 package refrigerated sugar dough, or ten 4-1/2-inch cookies
- 2 16-oz. containers prepared white frosting
- Food coloring
What to do:
- Roll the sugar dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Press out ten 4-1/2-inch cookies. Bake the cookies according to directions on the package. Set aside.
- Remove the paper cupcake liners from the cupcakes. Trim the rounded top of each cupcake to square it off.
- Ice the top of each cupcake with 1 tablespoon of frosting. Turn the cupcakes upside down and place them on the cookies. Set the "cookie hats" on a wire rack.
- Divide the icing into 4 bowls. Beginning with a few drops of food coloring, tint the icing in each bowl to a desired pastel shade. One at a time, place the bowls into the microwave for 15 seconds. Stir the icings to achieve a consistency that's easy to pour but not too runny—like a milkshake.
- Spoon icing over the hats, completely covering them. Set aside for 10 minutes to let icing firm up. If necessary, spoon icing over the hats again to coat them completely.
- Decorate each hat using M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies for Easter, STARBURST® Brand Jellybeans, and SKITTLES® Brand Bite Size Candies for Easter.
- To make hat ribbons, unwrap STARBURST® Brand FUN SIZE® Fruit Chews for Easter. Soften them in the microwave for 5 seconds. Then thinly roll them, cut them into thin ribbons, and wrap them around the hats.






