There are plenty of ways to make cute pig cupcakes. Don’t squeal if you don’t have the exact same candies we used. Just have fun with it!
What You Need: 1 cupcake; icing tinted pink or mauve; 2 pink heart candies; 1 pink Jordan almond; 2 blue mini M&Ms; white writing icing.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Place hearts, upside down, at top for ears. Add almond nose. Use white writing icing or gel to make pig nose nostrils.
Great for the fisherman in your life and a fun project for kids!
What You Need: 1 cupcake; icing tinted blue; stick pretzel; goldfish cracker; white writing icing.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Place pretzel on top at an angle. Add fish about to be “caught.” Use white icing to “draw” a fishing line connecting the pretzel pole and the fish.
Get ready for the Final Four (Go Bruins!) with these easy basketball cupcakes.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; icing tinted orange (if you want your icing to have a “rust” look, try adding a little red paste dye to your orange frosting); black writing gel.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake orange. Use black writing gel to “draw” two semi-circles with a line in between them, as shown.
Here’s another take on Easter bunny cupcakes. These have cute licorice ears.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white icing; 2 mini marshmallows; red jellybean; 2 red mini M&Ms; pink gel writing icing; thin, stiff red licorice strands.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake white. Add mini M&M eyes, red jellybean nose and mini marshmallow muzzle as shown. Using pink writing gel to add mouth. For ears, place end of one licorice strand into cupcake, loop around, and place other end into cupcake. Repeat for second ear.
Kids love these creepy, crawly cupcakes that are super easy to make.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; frosting (green or chocolate); 2 gummi worms; chocolate sandwich cookies (such as Oreos).
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Crush cookies in plastic bag and sprinkle crumbs on cupcake. Add gummi worms. (We cut one in half so it would look like the worm was crawling out of the dirt.)
Silly rabbit. What’s with those teeth? They’re Tic-Tac mints! Have fun making these easy bunnies for Easter.
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white frosting; regular-size marshmallow; pink sugar; 2 chocolate chips; pink jelly bean; 2 white Tic-Tacs; scissors or kitchen shears; pastry bag and No. 4 or 5 round metal tip or tube icing and round tip (this step is optional.)
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Cut marshmallow in half widthwise and sprinkle each half with pink sugar and place on cupcake for ears. If you’d like and have the gear, pipe (squeeze while holding tip in same place, stop squeezing and pull away) white icing in two mounds for bunny cheeks. Add chocolate chip eyes, jelly bean nose and Tic Tac teeth.
You can make great St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes without any fancy fondant or funky tools other than a small, heart-shaped cutter. The secret is gumdrops. (However, we do have easy tips on fondant clover cupcakes, too.)
What You Need: 1 cupcake; white icing; a few large green gumdrops or spice drops; rolling pin or glass; small, heart-shaped cookie cutter; scissors or kitchen shears; a bit of flour or powdered (confectioner’s) sugar.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake. Flatten gumdrop to about one-quarter inch in height by rolling them with a rolling pin or the edge of a glass. Put a little flour or powdered sugar on the surface and roller if the gumdrops stick too much. Dip heart cutter in flour or powdered sugar to keep it from sticking and cut out 3 heart shapes. Use scissors, knife or spatula to cut small stem for clover. Arrange parts on cupcake.
