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Mentos snowman cupcakes

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:33:01 +0000

Mentos snowman cupcake

The white Mentos mint candies are just the right shape and size to make a nice, fat snowman. Get out your food-safe pens and decorate your snowman! (you could use a Sharpie, but you’d need to make sure no one actually eats the candies — and that’s kind of a bummer).

What You Need: 1 cupcake; chocolate frosting; 3 mint (white) Mentos candies; orange candy-covered sunflower seed (or other triangular candy); black food-safe pen; strip of fruit roll (I used Rainbow Airheads Extremes); white star, flower or snowflake sprinkles.

How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Use food-safe pen to draw buttons, eyes, etc. on your snowman. Use dab of icing to attach orange sunflower seed nose. Cut or tear strip of fruit roll for scarf and wrap/place it between the first and second mint. Arrange snowman’s parts on your cupcake. Add “snow” sprinkles.

Smores cupcakes

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:42:06 +0000

Smores cupcake

Counter a winter cold snap with a tasty, cute s’mores cupcake. These are especially delicious with chocolate cupcakes, or get really adventuresome and try a rocky road cupcake. Scouts would love them, too.

What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; snowflake-shaped sprinkles; 2 squares Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal; 1 mini marshmallow; 1 chocolate chip.

How to Make It: Frost cupcake and sprinkle with snowflakes. Carefully sandwich the chocolate chip and marshmallow between the 2 cereal squares and microwave, on a safe plate, for a very short time — maybe 5 seconds. Press top square down a bit so the chocolate melts more and the marshmallow oozes out a bit. Place on top of cupcake.

Minty snowman cupcakes

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:46:21 +0000

Minty snowman cupcake

A mint hat adds the finishing touch to this snowman cupcake.

What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; 1 thin mint (such as by Necco); 1 Junior Mint; 2 black M&Ms; candy orange slice; 5 mini chocolate chips.

How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Use dab of icing to stick Junior Mint to center of thin mint for hat and place at top of cupcake. Add M&M eyes. Cut piece off candy orange and add for nose. Place 5 mini chocolate in a smile shape.

Snowman pick cupcakes

admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:35:22 +0000

Cupcake pick snowman

Don’t take this cupcake design literally; it’s just one example of how you can use the 1M swirl technique and plastic picks to create cute cupcake figures. You can buy plastic picks for all occasions!

What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; pastry bag and IM metal tip; snowman pick; 3 red mini M&Ms.

How to Make It: Follow technique linked above to make IM swirl in white. Stick pick in top. Add M&M buttons. That’s it!

Fat snowman cupcakes

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:42:44 +0000

Fat snowman cupcake

You don’t have to get all three-dimensional to make a snowman cupcake. This easy snowman’s fruit roll scarf creates the appearance of a head and round body!

What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; 2 green M&Ms; 6 brown M&Ms; red fruit roll; 2 mini pretzel twists; candy corn.

How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Using a knife or scissors, cut a strip of fruit roll and roll into a scarf. Place scarf about two-thirds of the way from the bottom of the cupcake so it separates the head from the body. Fold one end of the “scarf” over a bit. Add brown M&M mouth and eyes. Add candy corn nose. Add 2 green M&M buttons. Break pretzels in to shapes to look like stick hands and place on either side of snowman.

Teddy Bears winter picnic

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:05:24 +0000

Teddy bear winter picnic

Sure, teddy bears love their picnic cupcakes, but did you know they also like to party in winter?

What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; coconut; red and green gummi bears, white gumdrops or spice drops covered with white non-pareils.

How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Sprinkle with coconut. Add gummi bears and “snow drift” gumdrops.

Snowman with earmuffs cupcakes

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:13:34 +0000

Earmuff Snowman cupcake

This snowman is chilly, but thankfully he brought his earmuffs (in the form of cherry LifeSavers.) These cupcakes are easy to make, especially for kids, because all you do is place the candy on the cupcake!

What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; 2 black or brown M&Ms; 2 red LifeSavers candies; strand of red licorice; 1 orange candy (I used something called a Cry Baby, but you could also try candy corn or part of an orange candy slice.)

How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Add M&M eyes and candy nose. Place LifeSavers at sides of face for earmuffs and connect with strand of red licorice. You can add a mouth if you’d like, but I thought my Frosty looked cute without.

Snowflake cupcakes (rounded)

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:43:11 +0000

Here’s another take on snowflake cupcakes. Instead of piping your design on flat-topped cupcakes, make snowflakes on fat, rounded cupcakes. Include a variety of patterns for a more realistic snowstorm.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); icing tinted light blue; white icing (add piping gel to homemade icing and use pastry bag with round tip, or just buy a tube of white writing icing.)
How to Make It: Frost cupcake light blue and let sit for awhile so frosting “crusts” slightly. Using pastry bag and metal tip (we used tip No. 3), or prepackaged tube, pipe snowflake shapes. To keep from getting unwanted peaks in your lines, stop squeezing before you pull away.

Snowman cupcakes (lying flat)

admin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:19:47 +0000

There are as many ways to make a snowman cupcake as there are to make a “real” snowman! This version comes to life someday thanks to two piped icing blobs, mini M&M eyes and red licorice arms.

What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white icing tinted light blue; white icing; pastry bag and #5 tip (or just use packaged tube of icing or a plastic bag with a hole cut in it); 2 brown mini M&Ms; red licorice strings.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake blue. Fill pastry bag or plastic sandwich bag partway with white frosting. (If you’re using a plastic bag, cut a small hole from which to squeeze the icing. If you’re using a pastry bag, use metal tip #5 or similar.) Squeeze icing into one spot until you have a quarter-sized blob. Stop squeezing before you pull away so the blog stays flat (You can flatten it yourself if you need to, but do it before the icing hardens,) Pipe a similar but smaller blob above the first. Place 2 mini M&Ms, upside down, on the top circle for eyes. Cut strands of red licorice for arms. You could also add buttons, a fruit leather nose or whatever you’d like!

Snowflake cupcakes

admin — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:11:45 +0000

Just as every snowflake in nature is unique, so it can be for your next batch of cupcakes. Have fun experimenting with different designs and colors. Maybe even add some sprinkles, or Wilton Cake Sparkles.

What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); icing tinted light blue; white frosting in decorating bag and round tip 1, 2 or 3 (or just use a commercially made tube of writing icing).
How to Make It: Frost cupcake blue. Using fluid motions and even pressure, pipe snowflake shapes onto cupcake. It’s easiest if, for each “line” in your design, you lightly touch the tip to the surface of the cupcake, pull away as you gently squeeze the length of the line, and touch the tip down again to reattach. Be sure to stop squeezing before you pull away.