Critter Cupcakes Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
• Beat all ingredients except frosting, candies, cookies and decorating gel in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Fill cups 1/2 full.
• Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cupcake comes out clean. Remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• Spread with frosting. Decorate with candies to look like butterflies and ladybugs .

Steps:

• To prepare the cupcakes: Frost each cupcake with about 2 tablespoons of frosting.To make animals: Make a face of any animal you chose on the top of each cupcake. Some simple animals are a mouse, bear, cat or raccoon. To make ears, use any small cookie of your choice and stick into the frosting. To make a nose, use a cookie for a snout or try a gumdrop or jelly bean. To make eyes, use small candies. To make a mouth, use small pieces of licorice whips.