Description
Create fun and colorful Monster Cupcakes perfect for parties and celebrations. These cupcakes are topped with vibrant, gel-colored buttercream frosting and decorated with playful candy eyes to give each cupcake a unique monster personality.
Ingredients
Scale
Cupcakes
- 24 cupcakes (store-bought or homemade)
Buttercream Frosting
- 4 cups buttercream frosting
- Gel food colorings (blue, green, orange, purple, and yellow)
Decorations
- 48 candy eyes
Instructions
- Divide Frosting: Separate the buttercream frosting evenly into different small bowls, one for each color you want to create for your monster cupcakes.
- Add Gel Food Coloring: Add a small dab of gel food coloring into each bowl of frosting. Use a toothpick to lightly dip into the gel and mix through the frosting until the color is vibrant and evenly combined. Repeat for all desired colors.
- Prepare Piping Bags: Fill piping bags fitted with your preferred decorative tips with each colored frosting. Refer to piping bag filling tips for ease and efficiency.
- Pipe Frosting Onto Cupcakes: Pipe the colored frosting generously onto the top of each cupcake, creating fun and whimsical monster designs.
- Add Candy Eyes: Stick two candy eyes onto each cupcake to create adorable monster faces, adjusting placement for variety and expression.
Notes
- Use gel food colorings for bright, vivid colors that won’t thin the frosting.
- Feel free to mix colors to create unique shades for your monsters.
- Store cupcakes in an airtight container to keep frosting fresh.
- This decoration works best on completely cooled cupcakes to prevent melting.
- You can also add other edible decorations like candy horns or sprinkles for more character.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake
- Calories: 280 kcal
- Sugar: 35 g
- Sodium: 193 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 46 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 1 mg
