Easy Cupcakes

Kids would have a lot of fun adding the sprinkles to these butterfly cupcakes.

What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white or off-white frosting; green paste or liquid food coloring; vanilla cookie (such as Nilla Wafers); colored sprinkles; black licorice whip.
Make That Cupcake!: Reserve some white icing and tint the rest green. Frost cupcake green. Carefully break cookie in half. Spread white icing in a semi-circle on the cookie, but leave some cookie showing. Sprinkle with sprinkles. Place halves together on cupcake with rounded ends touching. Add short lengths of black licorice for antennae.

The secret to these cute cupcakes are those little candy dots that come on a strip of paper. (Necco Candy Buttons) You could make a whole bunch with various colors of butterflies.

What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white frosting; candy dots; mini sugar-coated fruit slices; black licorice laces.
Make That Cupcake! Frost cupcake. Place two fruit slices with round sides together and a small space between them. Cut two small lengths of licorice laces and place in middle for antennae. Peel candy dots off paper and place randomly all over cupcake.