That’ll do, Pig. That’ll do.

January 30th, 2008

I LOVE CUPCAKES. I mean, who doesn’t right? They are little bites of heaven…and as my friend Matty Binks wisely wrote…”Whoever created the first cupcake deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.” Anyway…I love to make fun animal inspired cupcakes. I like to say they are for my nieces and nephews…but really…I make them for me because I love cute things. Especially sugary frosted baked goods type cute things! These little piglet cupcakes were inspired by some cupcakes I saw on Flickr. YUM. But after going to 50 different cake decorating stores, and not finding any pink candy chocolates…I had to improvise. I ended up with the following recipe:

PIGGIE CUPCAKES
recipe from Julie Foxworthy

INGREDIENTS:
Strawberry Cake Mix
Eggs (for Cake Mix batter)
Oil (for Cake Mix batter)
Strawberry Frosting
Marshmallows (Large)
Mini Chocolate Chips
Strawberry Pink Sugar Wafer Cookies
Bag of Mini M&Ms
Pink Decorator Sugar

RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Bake and frost cupcakes per package directions
2. Slice big marshmallows in half, and dip the sticky side in the pink decorator sugar
3. Drill two little holes (I used a wooden kabob skewer) into the marshmallow where you would like the nostrils to go
4. Fill each nostril with an upside down mini chocolate chip (so the flat side is showing)
5. Set aside snouts
6. Cut strawberry wafers into triangle shape pieces with a sharp chef’s knife…(some of the wafers will pull apart from the cream filling, but I just kept cutting a bunch of them, until I had enough that had stuck together)
7. Pick out a bunch of blue mini M&M’s out of the bag and set aside
8. Assemble the Pigs by placing on the snout, the ears, and the eyes
9. Enjoy!

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