Slow and steady wins: Enhance your aquatic-themed party with these sea turtles. They won’t bite, but you might!
| Yield: | 12 turtle cupcakes |
Ingredients
- 6 small green gumdrops (for the tails)
- 12 vanilla cupcakes
- 2 1/4 cups vanilla buttercream
- 3/4 cup green sanding sugar
- 12 green jelly beans (for the heads)
- Black or brown food coloring gel
- 12 green gumdrop fruit slices, halved horizontally and vertically (for the flippers)
- 84 green candy-coated chocolates, such as M&M’s (for the shell)
- 84 brown candy-coated chocolates, such as M&M’s (for the shell)
Instructions
- For the tails: Place the small green gumdrops on the work surface standing upright. Cut each gumdrop in half by cutting straight down with a sharp knife.
- To assemble: Frost each cupcake with about 2 tablespoons buttercream. Place the green sanding sugar in a small bowl. Invert each cupcake into the sugar and press gently to adhere.
- Stick a green jelly bean straight into the frosting for the head. Using a #2 round piping tip, pipe on 2 buttercream eyes. Then dip a toothpick into the black or brown food coloring gel and create the pupils for the eyes. Push the flippers into the edges of the cupcake frosting. Attach a half gumdrop tail between the back legs. Pipe a little frosting onto 7 green and 7 brown candies before gently pressing them into the frosting on the “back” of each turtle to make the shell. Repeat steps for all cupcakes.
Reviews
Very cute, great for parties.