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Bat Cupcake
Photo by: Levi Brown/Woman’s Day
Bat Cupcake-
Plain cupcakes take flight once decorated with blue frosting and sprinkles, dark chocolate wings and sugar-spun eyes and fangs.
Recipe Ingredients
24 (2 1/2-in.) cupcakes, baked in paper liners
1 1/2 cans (16 oz each) vanilla frosting
24 chocolate-covered marshmallow cookies (such as Mallomars)
48 Tootsie Roll Midgees (from a 12- or 16-oz bag)
Brown tube icing
Regular M&M's and mini M&M's
Recipe Preparation
1.Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting, reserving 1 Tbsp. Place cookies on top.
2.Cut Tootsie Roll Midgees into 4 pieces each. Using the palm of your hand, roll each piece into a 3-in. rope. Press into rope with tines of a fork to make texture lines. Press 8 ropes onto each frosted cupcake for legs.
3.Pipe small dots of tube icing onto cookies for eyes and nose; press on M&M's for eyes and mini M&M for nose. With a toothpick, dot eyes with reserved white frosting.