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What you'll need for the Easter Basket Cupcake Treats:

• Basic cupcakes, any flavor
• Frosting, tinted in spring shades of yellow and pink
• Airheads® Candy bars in Strawberry or Cherry and Green Apple or Watermelon
• Airheads Xtremes® Rainbow belts
• Airheads Xtremes® Strawberry roll
• Mentos® Sours or Mixed Fruit candies
• Florist wire

Instructions for Easter Basket Cupcake Treats

1. Frost cupcakes with tinted frosting.
2. Bend 7 inch wire to form basket handle. Wrap wire with Airheads Xtremes® Strawberry roll and seal edges with frosting. Insert into cupcake.
3. Place an assortment of Mentos® into frosting in center of basket to form Easter eggs.
4. For grass, slice a long strip of green Airheads® and bend into accordion shape, wrap around outside of frosting just above paper liner.
5. For rainbow handle, bend an Airheads Xtremes® Rainbow belt into an accordion shape, insert florist wire through the center, repeat until full. Insert handle into cupcake.