Grover Cupcakes

Guess who? It's GROVER!

This is #4 on my Sesame Street Adventure!

Grover is super easy to make!

Here is what you need:

Cupcakes

white and black fondant

Pink Peanut M&M's (from the Valentine selection- Easter would work as well)

Sandwich type cookies cut in half

blue icing (I used a mix of royal blue and sky blue)

pinkish red icing (mix of red and pink)

Tip 233

Tip 12

While cupcakes are baking, prepare the eyes or eyes may be prepared in advance. Roll white fondant to 1/8 inch thick, cut with opposite end (wide side) of size 12 tip and shape into an oval. Using the small opening of the size 12 tip cut out black pupils. Glue together with a food safe brush and a very small dab of water. Be careful, too much water and the black will bleed.

For the mouth, cut the sandwich cookies in half.  Using pinkish red icing in zipper bag with tiny corner snipped off, outline bottom lip of cookie.

Ice cupcake in blue using piping bag fitted with tip 233, using a squeeze and release motion cover the cupcake. Assemble as shown in photo and that's it!

Grover did seem to have a hard time keeping his hands off the cupcakes! He just wanted to reach out and grab the other cupcakes, so I had to have him keep his hands crossed!

Look for a new Sesame Street Character next Tuesday!

  

Other Characters that I have made:

Big Bird

Cookie Monster

Elmo

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Big Bird Cupcakes

It's BIG BIRD!

This is #3 on my Sesame Street Adventure!

These guys took a little more time than the others, but I love working with fondant and they were a lot of fun to make!

Here is what you need:

Cupcakes

fondant in yellow, red, blue, pink, white, and black (or color white fondant)

icing colored yellow

Tip 67

A couple days ahead of time shape Big Bird's beak with yellow fondant, add inside of mouth using red and tongue using pink. If parts don't adhere well to each other, use a decorator brush with just a drop of water. For the eyes, I cut white fondant circles using Wilton's smallest fondant circle cutter, but the opposite end of your decorating tip can be used as well. I also made circles in blue and pink for the eyes and just cut the parts that I needed. The black pupil was cut using the opening on a size 12 tip. All eye parts were "glued" together using a brush with just a drop of water. Allow the beaks and eyes to stiffen up a day or two, if not they will lose shape when they are placed on the icing.

For the feathers I used buttercream colored yellow and tip 67. They were piped using a squeeze and release motion. Place on your facial features and you are finished!

*Be sure not to use too much water when adhering fondant parts together or your colors will bleed and the fondant will break down.

Again, my inspiration was a tiny stuffed animal!

Look for a new Sesame Street Character next Tuesday!

   

Other Characters that I have made:

Cookie Monster

Elmo

Grover

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I link up at these fun parties!

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

It's COOKIE MONSTER!

Now that I have begun on making the Sesame Street Characters, I can't stop! This week I have made Cookie Monster!

I had really started to get bored of cupcakes until I started by making the Elmo Cupcakes last week! Now, I am on a quest to make all of the characters that we have stuffed animals of, maybe more!

These lovable little guys are just as easy as Elmo to make!

 

All you need is:

Cupcakes

Sandwich type cookies cut in half

Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies (I used Mini Chips Ahoy!)

White Necco Candy

Black Candy Writer

Icing colored blue (I used Wilton Royal Blue)

Tip 233

Heat the candy writer and make the black dots on the white Necco candies, let set. Color icing blue. Ice cupcakes using piping bag fitted with tip 233 and using a squeeze and release motion cover the cupcake. Add the eyes and mouth. With a dab of icing, stick on the mini chocolate chip cookies! That's all! That's it!

Cookie Monster love cookies....and cupcakes!

Look for a new Sesame Street Character next Tuesday!

 

Other Characters that I have made:

Elmo

Big Bird

Grover

 

(Note: I did not have a problem with the blue dye bleeding into the Neccos like I did with the red dye)

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Elmo Cupcakes

It's ELMO!

This has been something on my to do list for 2 years now! I first got the idea from the Sesame Street Cupcakes at Busch Gardens. We spend a lot of time at Busch Gardens every summer and all of the characters have become like a part of our extended family!

I ended up settling on the Cookie Monster cupcake on that hot summer day back in 2010 and decided to recreate the characters myself. However, I just kept pushing my remake of these cupcakes farther and farther down the list. I kept putting them off until recently seeing Cookie Monster at The Weekly Sweet Experiment and that was enough to make me want to get moving on this project! My daughter had really hoped for Abby Cadabby first, but I already had the WhoNu? Cookies to use for the mouth and red icing in the refrigerator, Elmo was the character that I decided to create first!

These lovable little guys are super easy to make too!

All you need is:

Cupcakes

Sandwich type cookies cut in half

Orange M&Ms (I used Pretzel M&Ms)

White Necco Candy

Black Candy Writer

Icing colored red

Tip 233

In advance, heat the candy writer and make the black dots on the white Necco candies.

I also find it is best to color your icings a day in advance, because the colors do tend deepen with time. I had already previously colored the icing with Americolor Super Red, so it had time to deepen. Color it a shade lighter and give it this extra time, if possible. I have actually had a red icing that I colored and used immediately turn burgundy within about 6 hours.

Once you are ready to decorate, ice cupcakes using piping bag fitted with tip 233 and using a squeeze and release motion cover the cupcake. Add the eyes, mouth, and nose, and wallah! Elmo is finished!

*Note: I did find that after these cupcakes sat for quite a few hours the red began to bleed into the Neccos. I have already made the eyes for the next character as well, so we will see if it is just the color red or other colors as well. Upside down candy melts or cut marshmallows are another option for the eyes.

That first year that I began taking my youngest daughter to Busch Gardens, each visit she got a new mini character. Her first was this Elmo! Maybe I should go back and look at pictures and make all of the characters in the order that she got the mini of the character! I don't know if she would like that very well though, since Abby wasn't available for a very long time! She has always loved the characters, we never had the problem with her crying or running from them like some kids we have seen, she always ran to them! I can't wait for summer again!

Other Sesame Street Characters that I have made:

Cookie Monster

Big Bird

Grover

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