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What you'll need
- 1 baked ice cream cone cupcake (see directions, above)
- Skin-tone icing (mix red food coloring and cocoa powder with white icing for fair skin; mix cocoa powder or brown food coloring paste with white icing for dark skin, etc.)
- Sugar eyes (or mini jawbreakers)
- Colored icing in a tube (for hair and details)
- Red shoestring licorice or fruit leather
- Scissors
- Sugar cone
- Candy stars
- Edible glitter or coarse colored sugar
- Mini pretzel sticks
- Star-shaped sugar cake decoration
- To bake ice-cream-cone cupcakes, use your favorite box mix (not the "add butter" kind). Place flat-bottomed ice cream cones in a cupcake tray and fill three-quarters full. Bake as directed. These cupcakes are best made the same day since they get soggy after 12 hours.
- Place a big scoop of icing on top of the cupcake to make the head, smoothing as much as possible. Add sugar eyes, icing "hair," a licorice or fruit leather "smile" and any other details you like.
- To make the wizard's hat, use scissors to cut a sugar cone down to 2 inches (a parent's job). Coat with icing and decorate with candy stars, edible glitter or colored sugar.
- For the magic wand, coat a mini pretzel stick with icing, sprinkle with edible glitter or colored sugar, and attach the sugar star with a dab of icing. To finish, place the hat on the head, arrange the wand nearby, and, presto, you're done.
- Tip: If you use melted white chocolate rather than icing for the hats and wands, they can be made a week in advance and stored in an airtight container.
- To bake ice-cream-cone cupcakes, use your favorite box mix (not the "add butter" kind). Place flat-bottomed ice cream cones in a cupcake tray and fill three-quarters full. Bake as directed. These cupcakes are best made the same day since they get soggy after 12 hours.
What you'll need
- 24 cupcakes
- 2 (16-ounce) cans of vanilla frosting
- food coloring (yellow, orange, blue, green)
- M&M's
- candy fruit slice
- toothpicks
- Spoon 1/3 cup of the frosting into a ziplock bag and set it aside.
- In a bowl, tint 1/2 cup of the frosting with yellow food coloring. Evenly divide the remaining frosting among three more bowls and tint one portion orange, one blue, and one green. Cover all but one of the bowls with plastic wrap.
- Following the photo above, frost the first group of colored cupcake fi sh, then press four rows of identically colored M&M scales into each as shown (you'll need two 1-pound bags of M&M's altogether). Add 2 red M&M lips.
- Snip a corner from the frosting bag, then pipe a frosting eye onto each fish and press a brown M&M on top. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes and frosting, then assemble them into a fish shape.
- Use a toothpick to attach a candy fruit slice onto five or six of the cupcakes as shown.
What you'll need
- 1 dozen of your favorite cupcakes
- 16-ounce can of white frosting
- 3 drops yellow food coloring
- 1 teaspoon cocoa powder OR 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup
- red chocolate candies, such as M&M's
- Bake a dozen of your favorite cupcakes. Tint a 16-ounce can of white frosting with 3 drops yellow food coloring and either 1 teaspoon cocoa powder or 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup, then frost the cupcakes.
- Transfer the remaining frosting to a ziplock bag, snip off a corner, and set the bag aside. Press red chocolate candies (such as M&M's) onto the top of each cupcake as shown, then use the bagged frosting to pipe a lattice pattern over them and a zigzag crust around the edge. Makes 12 cupcakes.
- 1 baked cupcake
- White icing
- 40 mini marshmallows (white or pastel yellow and white)
- Yellow food coloring (optional)
- Clean paintbrush
- Scissors
- White construction paper
- Blue and red markers
- Frost the cupcake with white icing. To create each piece of "popcorn," cut one mini marshmallow in half and squish the two pieces back together into a whole mini marshmallow, pinching firmly. Pile the finished popcorn onto the frosted cupcake.
- For a buttery look, either dilute a drop of yellow food coloring in water and brush it on with a clean paintbrush or mix pastel yellow marshmallows in with the white.
- To make the band, cut a strip of construction paper about 1 1/4 inches by 8 inches, or to fit your cupcake, and decorate as shown.
- If you're creating many cupcakes, design just one band and color photocopy it. Wrap the band around the cupcake and secure with tape.
What you'll need
- 2 chocolate-covered graham crackers
- White decorators' icing
- Cupcake
- Frosting
- 1 3/4-inch piece shoestring licorice
- Small round candy (we used an M&M)
- Create a screen on one of the graham crackers by smearing a bit of frosting into a rectangle with a butter knife. Draw a keyboard on the other with decorators' icing.
- Frost the cupcake, then set the keyboard on top -- a little to the left, so you'll have room for the mouse.
- Place the monitor at an angle to the keyboard, pushing a small mound of frosting behind it to bolster it up.
- Add the licorice cord and the candy mouse. Tip: If you're making a batch of these, keep in mind that the cupcake frosting will stiffen quickly once it's spread. To avoid cracking, prepare the candy mice and the screens and keyboards in advance and decorate each cupcake completely before moving on to the next.
- Create a screen on one of the graham crackers by smearing a bit of frosting into a rectangle with a butter knife. Draw a keyboard on the other with decorators' icing.