Frog Cupcakes

Name: Frog Cupcakes
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 36 mini chocolate chips (for the pupils and the flies); 4 red gumdrop fruit slices (for the tongues); 16 green gumdrop fruit slices (for the legs); 118 milliliters light-green sanding sugar; 6 mini marshmallows (for the fly wings); 473 milliliters vanilla buttercream; 12 vanilla cupcakes; 12 yogurt-covered malt balls, halved (for the eyes)

The recipe Frog Cupcakes could satisfy your American craving in about 45 minutes. This recipe serves 12. One portion of this dish contains about 4g of protein, 2g of fat, and a total of 592 calories. If you have chocolate chips, vanilla cupcakes, yogurt-covered malt balls, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. Only a few people really liked this dessert. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free diet.

Instructions

Place the malt balls cut side down on the work surface.

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Malted Milk Balls

Add a mini chocolate chip to each ball by gluing with a little buttercream as a pupil for each eye. Set aside.

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Chocolate

Cut each of the green gumdrop fruit slices horizontally into 3 thinner slices.

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Fruit Slices

Gum Drops

Cut 3 toes into each leg (snip with scissors). Set aside.

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Kitchen Scissors

Place the red gumdrop fruit slices on the work surface.

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Fruit Slices

Gum Drops

Cut each horizontally into 3 thinner slices.

Cut each slice into a narrow strip to make a tongue.

Place a mini chocolate chip at one end of each tongue. Snip tiny wedges of marshmallow with scissors to make little fly wings.

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Marshmallows

Chocolate

Chicken Wings

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Kitchen Scissors

Cut the end of each wedge off and glue 1 wedge on each side of the chocolate chip, using the sticky cut side of the marshmallow to adhere.

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Marshmallows

Chocolate

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

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Cupcakes

Place the green sanding sugar in a small bowl. Invert each cupcake into the sugar and press gently to adhere. Attach the eyes by pressing gently into the frosting. Push the legs and tongue into the edges of the cupcake. Repeat steps for all cupcakes.

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Sanding Sugar