Baby Chick Cupcakes

Name: Baby Chick Cupcakes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 24 mini chocolate chips (for the pupils); 6 orange gumdrop fruit slices (for the feet); 14 yellow gumdrop fruit slices (for the wings and tails); 12 smalls orange gumdrops (for the beaks); 24 smalls white flat sprinkles (for the eyes); 8 liters yellow sanding sugar; 473 milliliters vanilla buttercream; 12 vanilla cupcakes

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Baby Chick Cupcakes a try. This recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains approximately 5g of protein, 1g of fat, and a total of 2803 calories. This recipe covers 19% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of vanilla buttercream, orange gumdrop fruit, orange gumdrops, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. This recipe is typical of American cuisine.

Instructions

For the eyes: Arrange the white sprinkles on the work surface. Attach a mini chocolate chip as a pupil to each sprinkle by gluing with a little buttercream. Set aside.

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Chocolate

Sprinkles

Cut each yellow gumdrop fruit slice in half horizontally to make 2 thinner slices. Take 4 of these slices and cut each into 3 triangles to make the tails. Set aside.

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Gum Drops

Fruit

Cut each orange gumdrop fruit slice in half horizontally to make 2 thinner slices, and then cut each slice in half crosswise. Using scissors, snip and remove 2 triangles from each foot to form the toes.

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Gum Drops

Orange

Fruit

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Kitchen Scissors

Place the small orange gumdrops on the work surface standing upright. Snip each gumdrop with scissors straight down three-quarters of the way through the candy to make the open mouth. Snip either side of the gumdrop to narrow the overall size and shape into a tapered beak.

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Gum Drops

Orange

Candy

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Kitchen Scissors

To assemble: Frost each cupcake with about 2 tablespoons buttercream.

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Cupcakes

Place the yellow sanding sugar in a small bowl. Invert each cupcake and press gently into the sugar to adhere.

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Sanding Sugar

Cupcakes

Sugar

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Bowl

Attach the eyes by pressing gently into position. Insert the beak just below eye level. Push the wings and feet into the sides of the cupcake and the tail into the back. Repeat steps for all cupcakes.

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Cupcakes

Chicken Wings