Playful Spring Cupcakes

 

I made these playful cupcakes for the students with special needs to sell on their coffee cart at school.   I was worried that the icing would turn the students mouths different colors but the students loved them and they were gone within 5 minutes. 

Give them a try!

Ice cupcakes with white, orange, green, blue, and yellow medium consistency icing.

Ladybug: On orange iced cupcake, use spatula to imprint a line down the center of the body.  Use tip 12 and black icing to pipe dot head.  Use tip 2 and white icing to pipe dot eyes, nose, and outline mouth.  Use tip 2 and black icing to pipe dot pupils and dots on body. Cut black shoestring licorice and insert for antennas.

Rainbow: On white iced cupcake, use tip 5 and violet, pink, blue, green, and yellow icing to pipe rainbow and sun.  Cut 2 white miniature marshmallows into 1/4 squares and add for clouds.

Fish: On blue iced cupcake, use tip 12 and orange icing to pipe dot body.  Use tip 3 and green icing to pipe zigzag tail, fin, gills, bead mouth, and sea weed.  Use tip 2 and white icing to pipe dot eye and tip 2 and black icing to pipe dot pupil.

Teddy Bear: On yellow iced cupcake, use tip 12 and brown icing to pipe dot head.  Use tip 5 and brown icing to pipe dot ears and muzzle.  Use tip 3 and black icing to pipe dot eyes, nose, and outline mouth.   Use tip 3 and multiple colored icing to pipe dot confetti.

Worm: On white iced cupcake, use tip 5 and green icing to pipe increasing sizes of dots from tail to head.  Use tip 3 and white icing to pipe dot eyes, tip 2 and black icing to pipe dot pupils and outline mouth, tip 2 and green icing to pipe dot nose.

Cyclops: On light green iced cupcake, use tip 3 and dark green icing to pipe dots.  Use tip 3 and black icing to outline and pipe-in mouth.  Use tip 3 and white icing to pipe dot eye and tooth.  Use tip 3 and black icing to pipe dot pupil.  Cut black shoestring licorice and insert for hair.

Baby Shower Sleeping Babies

 

Materials Used:



Colored Mini Marshmallows
Black Food Coloring
Colored Cupcake Liners
Chocolate, White, Yellow, and Red Candy Melts
Blue Food Coloring
Brown Food Coloring
Teddy Grahams
Candy Molds
Toothpicks
Chocolate Frosting
Teddy Grahams

I made these sleeping babies using standard size cupcakes for the body. The heads were made in my Baby Cakes mini cupcake machine which I just absolutely love.  I secured the head to the body using two toothpicks.  The bonnets and pillows were made using colored marshmallows which I secured by piping small dabs of canned chocolate frosting.  The bottles and rattles were molded using candy melts. Teddy Grahams were used for the little bears. The eyes and hair were piped on using black icing.   Buttercream icing was the choice for this project.

Rabbit Hole Cupcakes

 

 

I made these cupcakes with my kids for Easter.  I found the idea in the What's New Cupcake book and altered the recipe a little. I did not use the circus peanuts and chocolate covered sunflower seeds.  They were pretty quick and easy to make.  

Materials Used:

Yellow cake mix
Cream Cheese Icing
Chocolate Icing
Green Wilton Paste Food Coloring
Whopper Malted Eggs
Flower Candy Decals
Oreos
White Fondant


Directions:

We started out by baking 24 yellow cupcakes.

 

Grass cupcakes-Wilton grass tip (Tip 233) and cream cheese icing dyed green using Wilton green paste food coloring.

Dirt cupcakes-6 cupcakes were iced with chocolate frosting and rolled in crushed oreos

                         

 

Bunny cupcakes-white fondant was rolled and shaped into bunny feet and tails.  I used brown icing to pipe the bottom of the feet and to hold the feet and tail in place.

 

 

We strategically placed the burrowing bunnies throughout the grass cupcakes and finished decorating the grass with Whopper Malted Eggs and Flower Candy Decals.