Please remember that I don’t eat this stuff so I did not test this recipe. I’m just posting so you can try it!
Jungle Animal Cupcakes Food Craft Recipe
INGREDIENTS:
check for ingredient coupons here
24 baked cupcakes of your choice
Betty Crocker Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
Yellow, red and black food color (depends on which animals you make)
Lion Decorations
1 1/2 cups caramel popcorn
12 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
12 pretzel sticks
12 pieces Cheerios™ cereal (any flavor)
Tiger Decorations
12 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
12 orange chewy fruit-flavored gumdrops (not sugar coated), cut in half crosswise, top halves discarded
Monkey Decorations
12 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
6 miniature marshmallows, cut in half crosswise, pieces flattened
12 small round chocolate-covered creamy mints
Zebra Decorations
6 round vanilla wafer cookies
24 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
6 black chewy licorice-flavored gumdrops (not sugar coated), cut in half vertically
See my Darlene’s Concoctions videos!
DIRECTIONS:
1: Decorate 24 cupcakes using the instructions below to make 6 lions, 6 tigers, 6 monkeys and 6 zebras. Or you can bake less cupcakes and create just one animal to use less ingredients.
2: In small bowl, mix 1/2 cup chocolate frosting with black food color to make black frosting. Place in resealable plastic freezer bag and cut small tip off 1 corner of bag. Use black frosting to decorate lions, tigers, monkeys and zebras (steps 3 through 7).
3: Lions and Tigers: In medium bowl, mix 1 cup vanilla frosting with enough yellow and red food colors to make orange. In small bowl, mix 1 tablespoon orange frosting with 3 tablespoons white vanilla frosting to make lighter orange for muzzles. Frost 12 cupcakes with darker orange frosting. For muzzle, spread or pipe small circle of lighter orange frosting on each cupcake.
4: For lions, place caramel corn around edges of cupcakes for mane. For eyes, add brown baking bits. For whiskers, break about 1/2-inch pieces off each end of pretzel sticks and insert in cupcakes. For ears, add cereal pieces. Using black frosting, pipe on mouth and nose.
5: For tigers, use black frosting to pipe on stripes, nose and mouth. For eyes, add brown baking bits. For ears, add gumdrop halves.
6: Monkeys: Frost 6 cupcakes with chocolate frosting. In small bowl, mix 1 tablespoon chocolate frosting and 2 tablespoons vanilla frosting to make light brown. For muzzle, spread or pipe circle of light brown on each cupcake that starts in middle and extends to edge; pipe small tuft of hair on opposite edge. For each eye, attach brown baking bit to marshmallow half with frosting; place on cupcakes. With black frosting, pipe on nose and mouth. For ears, add mints.
7: Zebras: Cut small horizontal slit in top of 6 cupcakes near edge of paper cup. Insert edge of vanilla wafer cookie into each slit to create elongated face, adding small amount of vanilla frosting to cookie before inserting to help stick. Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting. For muzzles, frost cookies with black frosting. With black frosting, pipe on stripes and mane. Add brown baking bits for nostrils and eyes. For ears, add black gumdrop halves, cut sides down.
Darlene’s Tips: Make it easy and just look at the images and use whatever you think you can use to create the animals. You could use black licorice for decorating instead of black frosting. These would be awesome for a birthday party!
BE COOL -> Subscribe to my Youtube channel
