Cookie Monster Cupcakes

November 2: Cookie Monster’s Birthday

Admit it! We are all kids at heart and have a little cookie (or dessert) monster inside of us. The lovable, googly-eyed, blue furry creature on Sesame Street TV has a voracious appetite for cookies and gobbles them up with gusto! But lately, Cookie Monster has been promoting healthier eating habits. But just for his birthday, indulge a bit with blue frosted cupcakes with—what else?—a mini chocolate cookie! Om nom nom nom—yum yum! Happy birthday, Cookie Monster!

Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 dozen cupcakes (we used Duncan Hines brand Moist Deluxe Devil’s Food cake mix)
• 1-2 cans white frosting tinted blue (we used Wilton brand Ready-to-Use Decorator Icing tinted with Royal Blue Icing Color)
• 1 tube white icing (we used Wilton brand Ready-to-Use icing tube)
• mini chocolate chips (we used Nestlè Toll House brand mini morsels)
• Oreo Cookies chocolate mini bite size

Directions

Bake cupcakes and cool completely. Tint the white frosting blue. Fill a pastry bag with the frosting and, using the star tip, pipe the surface “fur” of the cupcake.  Fit the white icing tube with a round tip and pipe the eyeballs.

Insert a mini chocolate chip on the white icing point to make “googly eyes.” Shove a mini Oreo cookie for the mouth onto the blue frosted cupcake surface. Complete all cupcakes in the same manner.

Notes

• See our Food Flop page for “what could have been” Cookie Monster macarons.
• See our blog recipe post for Elmo macarons on Elmo’s birthday on February 3.