Easy Easter Basket Cupcakes

These are an easy, but festive treat to include with your Easter family dinner or even Easter Day Brunch.
Ingredients:

1 box of preferred cake mix
Cupcake paper cups - pastel colored

Cake mix ingredients needed (eggs, water and *vegetable oil)

Cream cheese or white icing 

Green sprinkles (cupcake/ cake decoration)
Red rope licorice
Milk Chocolate Candy-coated Egg candies (such as Hershey's or M&Ms brands)

1. Prepare cake mix as cupcakes as directed on box.
2. Allow to cool completely.
3. Cover with icing.
4. Sprinkle with green sprinkles.
5. Use a small knife to make vertical pre-slits on each side of the cupcake tops.
6. Insert an end of a licorice rope into the pre-slits (you make need to cut to size) to make an arch like a basket handle.
7. Place egg candies on top (press gently to place firmly into icing...Enjoy!

*Even though cake mixes call for vegetable oil, I recommend using coconut oil.