The Ice Festival Mascots…

January 29th, 2008

Every year in Plymouth, Michigan they have a pretty cool Ice Sculpture Festival, and every year I throw a party for my family and friends at my tiny little apartment (which is right downtown). It’s my one chance a year to really bust out and experiment with making a bunch of treats for my friends to fill up their bellies. This year, I decided that I needed to do some wintery/icy types treats…and in my vast searches, I found this amazingly cute recipe for making polar bear cakes. They were literally too cute to eat!
Check out the directions for assembly below.

Polar Bear Cakes
Recipe from FamilyFun.com

INGREDIENTS:

Light-colored cupcakes, 1 regular and 3 mini
White frosting
Shredded coconut
3 large and 2 small white gumdrops
1 Junior Mint candy
Chocolate chips, 4 regular and 4 mini

RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS:

1. First, frost the top, sides, and bottoms of both a regular-size cupcake and a mini cupcake with white frosting. For each cupcake, frost the bottom first; then use a fork stuck into the bottom to hold the cupcake while you frost the rest of it.
2. Roll the cupcakes in shredded coconut; then, working on waxed paper, set the cupcakes on their sides with the top of the smaller cupcake stuck to the bottom of the larger one to form the bear’s head.
3. Add 2 horizontal slices from a large white gumdrop for ears, a Junior Mint candy for a nose, and 2 chocolate chips for eyes. For each cub, frost a mini cupcake and a large gumdrop, then roll them in coconut and arrange them on their sides as shown. Add 2 horizontal slices from a small white gumdrop for ears, a chocolate chip nose, and 2 mini chocolate chip eyes.

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