Things You'll Need:
- Box cake mix
- Cupcake pans
- Cupcake liners
- White buttercream icing
- Green food color
- Black food color
- Rectangle platter or cake board
- Offset spatula
- Pastry bag with star tip
- Pastry bag with small round tip
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Step 1
Bake 20 cupcakes in any flavor according to package instructions. Allow cupcakes to cool completely.
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Step 2
Prepare your icing. Divide white buttercream icing into four unequal parts. Color the largest amount dark green, using a generous amount of green food color. Use less color to make the second bowl of icing a lighter green. Leave the third portion white. Color the final, smallest portion of the icing black.
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Step 3
Arrange cupcakes on a rectangle platter or cake board to create the frog's shape. First, make a solid circle in the center of the board using 10 cupcakes. Place three cupcakes at an angle on either side of the circle to create legs. Place a single cupcake at the end of each leg to create a foot. Finally, place two cupcakes at the top of the circle to create bulging eyes.
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Step 4
Once you have a shape you like, secure each cupcake to your board with a small amount of buttercream.
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Step 5
Using an offset spatula, ice the main body, legs and feet with dark green icing. Ice the eyes with white buttercream.
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Step 6
Ready one pastry bag with a star tip and fill with light green icing. Carefully outline the frog's eyes in light green. Add outline details, spots or decoration to the entire cake using light green icing.
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Step 7
Place a round tip on the second pastry bag and fill with a small amount of black icing. Draw a wide, smiling mouth through the center of the cake's main body. Create pupils by squeezing a small amount of black icing near the bottom of each of the white cupcake that make up the eyes.
