Snowman cupcakes
Submitted by glory on August 06, 2002 at 11:40 am

We have a tradition of making snowman cupcakes.

Make the cupcake recipe of your choice. I usually use lemon. Make however many cupcakes you need and make mini muffin cupcakes to match- one per cupcake.

Ok, icing has to be white of course. So, ice the top of the regular-sized cupcake. Then ice the flat top of a mini-muffin. This is the snowman's face. Stand it up on its edge on the cupcake.

Now for the features. Eyes are mini-chocolate chips, OR you can use the mini brightly colored candy coated baking chips KA has- green, blue, brown and purple look best (those are the Elizabeth Taylor snowmen!), nose is candy corn with the yellow fat end cut off first- this then looks like an orange carrot with snow on its nose. Smile is red licorice whip piece. The smile is the best part. Some of your snowmen will have straight line mouths, some will have smiley "U" shaped mouths. All of them will have a different personality.

For scarves use 1/4 inch ribbon in festive colors, or the beads that you can find on long rolls in the cake decorating store, I have also used Mylar stars that come on a Mylar covered wire.

Coat each snowman with any of the following: teeny-tiny white nonpareils (I get these at a cake decorating store), Crystalized sanding sugar, or flaked coconut. (I never do coconut because too many kids don't like it.)

Oh, I also really like these cupcakes in gold foil cupcake liners. I bring these into school every year for my daughter's "half birthday" in January. Because she is a summer baby, we decided this was a better time for us. This ends up being something fun to do together over Martin Luther King weekend. Her friends get so excited about this. I am tickled and honored that they actually look forward to someone ELSE's birthday!