Brunch is a fantastic time to enjoy these easy, sweet, pineapple juice mimosas.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 24 cupcakes |
Ingredients
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package white cake mix
- 1 ¼ cups water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 4 large egg whites
- 1 (16 ounce) can prepared vanilla frosting
- 6 drops green food coloring, or as needed
- 12 marshmallows
- ¼ cup green decorator sugar
- 48 semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 drop red food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.
- Mix cake mix water, oil, and egg whites in a large bowl with an electric mixer on low speed until moistened, then mix on medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 1/2 full.
- Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, 19 to 23 minutes. Cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely, about 20 minutes more.
- While the cupcakes are cooling, stir 2/3 of the frosting with green food coloring in a small bowl until well combined. Place remaining frosting in another small bowl and set aside. Cut each marshmallow in fourths widthwise to make four thin circles. Place green sugar in a shallow bowl. Set out a very small bowl of water.
- Frost cooled cupcakes with green frosting and sprinkle with some green sugar.
- Wet half of each marshmallow circle with water, then dip the wet part into green sugar to coat. Place two dipped marshmallows onto each cupcake for the frog’s eyes; the green sugar should be facing up for the eyelids. Use a tiny bit of white frosting to glue a chocolate chip onto the center of each marshmallow for the pupils.
- Stir red food coloring into remaining white icing. Transfer to a plastic bag. Snip off one corner of the bag and pipe pink icing onto cupcakes to draw mouths and nostrils as desired.
Reviews
Great, but we dont have frosting unless its christmas
I couldn’t get the marshmallows to stay on without toothpicks, but these turned out cute and my kid loved them
Made these for my lady. I love how they came out!
They were so cute and fun! I made them for my family and they were such a hit! (I didn’t have the right things for the eyeballs, so I used marshmallows)
I just used the recipe as inspiration for the decor – I made mini cupcakes, the eyes are mini marshmallows, I drew the pupils on the mini marshmallows using one of those black gourmet food writer pens and the mouths are dissected Twizzlers. Big hit!
Did a frog themed B-day for my Grandson. I made a 9 x 13 cake as a pond and put the frogs around it – Everybody loved it!
I think they are really cute and they would be perfect for for a birthday party
I’m in love with this recipe so much:)
love this. so easy and adorable.
These were relatively easy to make and assemble! So cute and a great hit with young ones and adults alike.
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I loved the frog cupcakes! They turned out perfectly! My family love them and thinks they are adorable!
Super cute! They were a hit at my son’s birthday party. Make sure to put the green sprinkles on while the frosting is still wet, otherwise they don’t stick, and only put enough frosting to cover the cupcake. If you put more, they eyes tend to melt off.
Very cute and so easy to make!
this is great I taught pre-K several yrs back. I reminded me of that!The kids(and grown ups) love this. In Fact I used the candy eyes from th craft store…they stayed on fine. Thy come in different size. nd I colored my batter green……although my neighbor boys said the inside should be red….kids gotta love em
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Love’d it !!!
My frog cupcakes turned out so cute and were a hit. I used the vanilla frosting tinted with green food coloring. I then dipped the frosted cupcake in green sugar I bought from Kroger. Just beware that this will get messy when little kids eat them. My poor niece Hannah’s lips, tongue, and teeth were green:)
love it! i think it is great for your little ones birthdays!
My youngest son is obsessed with frogs, so I made these for his 6th birthday this weekend. They were a big hit. I did have trouble with the marshmallow eyes wanting to slide off, and I used quite a bit of extra frosting heaped on in order to hold them in place. In the future I will trim the marshmallows to be semi-circles with flat bottoms, hopefully that will solve the problem. I also pushed the pointy end of the chocolate chip into the marshmallow to make the pupil, instead of using a dot of icing, as suggested in the how-to video. This was time consuming, and they looked as if they wanted to pop out (although none did) Next time I will use a food writer pen and just draw the pupil on.
I made these over the weekend and they were a big hit with my grandson an the other kids and I had fun making them 3 hours but it was worth it.