How to Make Cookie Monster Cupcakes

You'll need a multi-opening cake-decorating tip and a round tip to make Cookie Monster cupcakes.

Cookie Monster cupcakes make a perfect goodie for any "Sesame Street" fan's birthday or school party. The best part is, you don't have to be a professional baker or supermom to make them. Everything you need is available at grocery and craft stores. Whip up a batch for your favorite toddler, or anyone who might like a fun sweet treat.

Things You'll Need

• Royal blue frosting
• Black or chocolate frosting
• White candy melts (available in the candy-making aisle at craft stores)
• 2 decorating bags
• Decorating tips, multi-opening and round
• Chocolate cupcakes, not frosted
• Mini chocolate chip cookies

Instructions

1. Fit a decorating bag with a multi-opening tip. This tip is used to make frosting grass or hair; it can be round or rectangular with numerous small holes. Fill the bag with the blue frosting. Pipe frosting over each cupcake in short strokes, overlapping the strands and allowing some to hang over the edges to make the frosting resemble fur. Cover the cupcakes completely with frosting.

2. Place two white candy discs at the top of each cupcake as the monster's eyes. You can lay them flat or position them in the frosting so they stick up.

3. Fit another decorating bag with a round decorating tip. Fill the bag with black or chocolate frosting. Pipe dots on each white candy disc to complete the eyes. Make the monsters look "googly-eyed" to resemble Cookie Monster.

4. Push a mini chocolate chip cookie into each cupcake where the monster's mouth would be, leaving half of the cookie protruding from the cupcake. Or, pipe a half-moon-shaped mouth onto each cupcake with the black or chocolate frosting and sprinkle crumbled cookies around each mouth.

Tips & Warnings

• You can use shredded coconut, tinted blue with food coloring, in place of the blue frosting.

References

• Cupcake Decorating Ideas: Cookie Monster Cupcakes