Jungle Animal Cupcakes

Name: Jungle Animal Cupcakes
Prep time: 2 h 45 min
Cook time: 2 h 45 min
Total time: 2 h 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow or devils food cake mix; 24 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits; 355 milliliters caramel popcorn; 12 Cheerios® cereal (any flavor); 12 smalls round chocolate-covered creamy mints; 296 milliliters Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting; 6 black chewy licorice-flavored gumdrops (not sugar coated), cut in half vertically; 6 miniature marshmallows, cut in half crosswise, pieces flattened; 12 orange chewy fruit-flavored gumdrops (not sugar coated), cut in half crosswise, top halves discarded; 12 pretzel sticks; 591 milliliters Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting; 6 round vanilla wafer cookies; 24 servings Yellow and red food color

Jungle Animal Cupcakes might be just the American recipe you are searching for. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains roughly 2g of protein, 8g of fat, and a total of 303 calories. This recipe serves 24. A mixture of rich & creamy vanilla frosting, rich & creamy chocolate frosting, devil's food cake mix, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans).

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Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Decorate cupcakes to make 6 lions, 6 tigers, 6 monkeys and 6 zebras.

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Cake Mix

Cupcakes

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Wire Rack

Muffin Liners

Oven

In small bowl, mix 1/2 cup chocolate frosting with black food color to make black frosting.

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Chocolate Frosting

Food Color

Frosting

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Bowl

Place in resealable plastic freezer bag; cut small tip off 1 corner of bag. Use black frosting to decorate lions, tigers, monkeys and zebras (steps 3 through 7).

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Frosting

Lions and Tigers: In medium bowl, mix 1 cup vanilla frosting with enough yellow and red food colors to make orange. In small bowl, mix 1 tablespoon orange frosting with 3 tablespoons white vanilla frosting to make lighter orange for muzzles. Frost 12 cupcakes with darker orange frosting. For muzzle, spread or pipe small circle of lighter orange frosting on each cupcake.

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Frosting

Cupcakes

Orange

Spread

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Bowl

For lions, place caramel corn around edges of cupcakes for mane. For eyes, add brown baking bits. For whiskers, break about 1/2-inch pieces off each end of pretzel sticks and insert in cupcakes. For ears, add cereal pieces. Using black frosting, pipe on mouth and nose.

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Pretzel Sticks

Caramel Popcorn

Cupcakes

Frosting

Cereal

For tigers, use black frosting to pipe on stripes, nose and mouth. For eyes, add brown baking bits. For ears, add gumdrop halves.

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Frosting

Gum Drops

Monkeys: Frost 6 cupcakes with chocolate frosting. In small bowl, mix 1 tablespoon chocolate frosting and 2 tablespoons vanilla frosting to make light brown. For muzzle, spread or pipe circle of light brown on each cupcake that starts in middle and extends to edge; pipe small tuft of hair on opposite edge. For each eye, attach brown baking bit to marshmallow half with frosting; place on cupcakes. With black frosting, pipe on nose and mouth. For ears, add mints.

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Chocolate Frosting

Frosting

Marshmallows

Cupcakes

Spread

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Bowl

Cut small horizontal slit in top of 6 cupcakes near edge of paper cup. Insert edge of vanilla wafer cookie into each slit to create elongated face, adding small amount of vanilla frosting to cookie before inserting to help stick. Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting. For muzzles, frost cookies with black frosting. With black frosting, pipe on stripes and mane.

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Frosting

Cupcakes

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