Tempt My Tummy Tuesday (Pupcakes)

My daughter LOVES to help me in the kitchen.  She also loves to do things in the kitchen by herself.  Pumpkin-Seed has been making cakes since she was about 8 years old.  Boxed cakes, that is.  But she has been making them from start to finish for about 4 years now.  Someone gave her a cookbook a while back called  “Kids Cake Mix Magic”.   It’s a book full of recipes you can make with a standard cake mix.  One of the recipes is for these adorable Pupcakes.

PUPCAKES

• 1 (18 1/4 oz ) package chocolate cake mix, plus ingredients to prepare per directions
• 1/2 c.  (1 stick) butter , softened
• 4 c. powdered sugar
• 1/4 – 1/2 c. half and half or milk
• Red and yellow fruit roll ups
• Assorted colored jelly beans and candy-coated chocolate pieces

1. Preheat oven to 350°.  Line 24 standard  (2 1/2 inch) muffin pan cups with paper liners.
2. Prepare cake mix and bake in prepared pans according to package directions.  Cool cupcakes in pans on wire racks 15 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
3. Beat butter in large bowl with electric mixer until creamy.  Gradually add powdered sugar to form very stiff frosting , scraping the sides of bowl occasionally.  Gradually add half and half until frosting is of desired consistency.
4. Generously top cupcakes with frosting.
5. Cut out ear and tongue shapes from fruit roll ups with scissors; arrange on cupcakes, pressing into frosting as shown in photo.  Add candies to create eyes and noses.

We didn’t have the yellow fruit roll ups so we used those milk maid caramels that look like tootsie rolls and flattened them out , that worked really well.  Really, just use your imagination, lots of different things could work!! Have fun!!

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