Elmo cupcakes recipe
Kids and grown-ups alike love him and now you can easily have Elmo cupcakes at your party. Take your favourite cupcake recipe and decorate just like this for little effort and lots of wow factor.
Prep Time:
10 mins
Cook Time:
20 mins
Ingredients:
1 quantity buttercream icing
3 tsp red food colouring
1 quantity pre-prepared basic cupcakes
36 white marshmallows (for the eyes)
1 tube (50g) Queen black writing icing
1 roll (150g) Oreo biscuits
18 orange jelly beans
Method:
Tint the buttercream icing with the red food colouring and spread the top of each cupcake generously.
Use the flat of the knife to rough up the surface so it resembles red fur.Press 2 marshmallows for eyes on each cupcake. Squeeze a dot of writing icing to create pupils on the eyes.
Use a serrated knife to split the Oreo cookies in half and remove the cream. Cut each disk in half by using a gentle sawing motion and put in place for Elmo’s mouth. Add the jelly beans for his nose.