Supplies needed: – pink-tinted frosting – Circus animal cookies 1. Frost a cupcake with pink frosting (you could also use white frosting — or pink & white swirled frosting!) 2. Place a few circus animal cookies on the top of…
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Animal Cupcakes: Sheep
Supplies needed: – white frosting – mini marshmallows – large marshmallows – chocolate frosting, red frosting 1. Frost a cupcake with white frosting. 2. Pipe eyes, nose, and smile onto the cupcake with chocolate or red frosting. 3. Cover the…
Animal Cupcakes: Monkey
(sorry that this photo is a little blurry!!) Supplies needed: – Chocolate frosting – Light blue M&Ms – Red frosting – Nilla wafers – Peanut butter wafer cookies 1. Frost a cupcake with chocolate frosting. 2. Cut about 1/4 of…
Animal Cupcakes: Lions & Tigers
Supplies needed: – Orange-tinted frosting – Yellow Necco wafers – Chocolate frosting – Pretzel sticks – Caramel corn 1. Frost a cupcake with orange frosting. 2. Pipe the eyes, nose, and smile of the lion onto the yellow Necco wafer…
Animal Cupcakes: Pig
Supplies needed: – pink-tinted frosting – large marshmallows – chocolate chips – chocolate frosting – strawberry wafer cookies 1. Frost a cupcake with pink frosting. 2. Cut a large marshmallow in half and place it on the cupcake. Pipe two…
Animal Cupcakes: Bunny
Supplies needed: – Pink-tinted frosting – White frosting – Pink M&Ms – Blue M&Ms or blue chocolate-covered sunflower seeds – Chocolate jimmies – Pink sprinkles – Large marshmallows 1. Frost a cupcake with pink frosting. 2. Pipe a large circle…
Animal Cupcakes: Panda
Supplies needed: – Chocolate O cereal – Oreo cookies – White frosting and chocolate frosting – Brown M&Ms – Toothpick 1. Frost a large cupcake and cover the cupcake with Oreo crumbs (you can use a food processor to grind…
Animal Cupcakes: Worms in the Dirt
Supplies needed: – Oreo cookies – Chocolate frosting – Gummy worms 1. Frost a cupcake with chocolate frosting. 2. Crush Oreos in a food processor and cover the frosted cupcake with Oreo crumbs. 3. Place the gummy worms on the…
Animal Cupcakes: Cat
Supplies needed: – Brown food coloring (or you could use chocolate frosting) – Red-tinted frosting – Pink chewing gum – Yellow fondant (you could also use white chewing gum instead) – Two pastel green M&Ms 1. Frost a cupcake of…
Animal Cupcakes: Owl
Supplies needed: – Oreo cookies – Junior mints – Yellow M&Ms or banana runts – Chocolate frosting (I used store-bought frosting in this case) 1. Frost a cupcake of your choosing with chocolate frosting. 2. Remove one of the cookies…
Zoo Cake!
I made an animal-themed birthday cake for my niece’s 1st birthday party. It was a labor of love and I was drowning in buttercream by the time I was finished! Here are the steps I went through to make the…
Oreo Cupcakes
Mmmm Oreos. So bad, but so, so good. These cupcakes are semi-homemade. The cake is from a box mix (funfetti… I wanted white cake, but I only had funfetti!). I added crushed Oreos to the cupcake batter and baked according…
