Then, I remembered that my sister-in-law gave me a really neat recipe book for cupcakes for Christmas. It is called "Hello, Cupcake!" It is full of a ton of really neat ideas for decorating cupcakes. And the best part is, they are all pretty easy and you don't have to have all the professional tools to make them. In fact, most people have all the tools needed to make most of the cupcake designs. So.. I got out the cupcake book and started looking through it. I wanted to find something that I could just play around with that wouldn't take too long and that I already had all the ingredients for. I ended up with these:
All I did was frost the cupcake and then roll the edge in a plate full of sprinkles.
Then I melted some dipping chocolate and put it into a Ziploc
sandwich bag and cut off the very tip of one corner. Using the templates from the book, I squeezed the chocolate from the bag onto wax paper and made the bugs and then stuck the M&M's in the right places.. The book had 6 different bug designs, but I only used three; the spider, the tick, and the centipede. I thought they turned out quite cute. There are also templates for an ant, a beetle, and a scorpion in the book.
I just used what I already had in the house, so that is why there are pick M & M's on them. I had those left over from a girl Baby Shower that I did. But it worked out good because my girls had picked out pink cupcake cups and Red Velvet Cake Mix
. So they were very "PINK" cupcakes.These would be great for a Halloween Party, just use different colored M&M's so they look a little more scary.
After making these, I can't wait to try out some of the other ideas in the book. I will let you know when I try them and how they turn out.
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