These cupcakes are something to roar about: super easy and fun for kids, too.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); icing tinted yellow; yellow mini marshmallows; black licorice with candy coating; chocolate chip; 2 blue M&Ms.
How to Make It: Frost cupcake yellow. Place marshmallows around edge of cupcake. Add M&Ms for eyes and cupcake for nose. Arrange licorice for mouth.
Get your baaa-d self together and make these lamb cupcakes, which are so easy they’re a perfect choice for kids to make.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white frosting; mini marshmallows; black (licorice flavor) Necco wafer; candy “eyes” or just use dots of icing or writing gel.
How To Make It: Frost cupcake white. Place Necco wafer in top one-third of cupcake and add eyes. Fill in rest of cupcake with marshmallows. That’s it!
The moon on this cupcake, which is perfect for Halloween, is actually a banana candy!
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); chocolate frosting; Junior Mint; brown M&M; bit of black licorice (for tail); black writing icing or gel and Runts banana candy.
Make That Cupcake!: Frost cupcake. Position Junior Mint as cat body and M&M as head. Use writing icing to draw triangle ears. Add black licorice for tail (or you could just draw the tail). Add banana moon and there you go! A fun cat for Halloween or anytime.
These fast frogs come together thanks to gumdrops, red hot candies and cut-up fruit roll tongue.
What You Need: 1 cupcake (baked and cooled); white or off-white frosting; liquid or paste green food coloring; two green gumdrops; 2 cinnamon imperials (“red hots”), red fruit roll (We used Fruit by the Foot).
Make That Cupcake!: Tint frosting green and frost cupcake. Use dab of icing to stick red hots to front of gumdrops and place on cupcake for eyes. Cut notch in fruit roll for tongue shape and stick to front of cupcake for tongue. You can make a bunch of frogs, all with different tongue lengths!
