I don't know about you, but everytime I try to create a gingerbread house, it looks like a natural disaster hit it. My little cousins have found this very dissappointing of me - so last year, after our gingerbread house was yet another failure, I decided a new project: cupcake snowmen. This was a success because they were SO happy that they worked out AND they were delicious.
Here's how I did it:
1. Buy box cake mix, white/vanilla icing, black bead sprinkles for eyes, mouth, & buttons, then red licorice for scarf, orange bead sprinkles/frosting for carrot nose, and toothpicks to stack cupcakes and to give them arms
2. Make sure you have a pan for big/regular size cupcakes and a pan for small cupcakes
3. Follow the directions and bake 6 big cupcakes and 12 small cupcakes (makes 6 snowmen)
4. Frost all cupcakes with white on top (paper will be around cupcake)
5. Stick a toothpick through bottom cupcakes and place one small cupcake on top of every big cupcake
6. Now, for the heads, turn the remaining small cupcakes sideways so that the top is facing you and connect with toothpick
7. Decorate the faces how you like and wrap red licorice around the neck for the scarf effect
8. Place two toothpicks in the side of each snowmen for arms and put sprinkles down the middle for buttons
9. That's it! Enjoy as centerpieces/decorations for a day until you eat!
My little cousins LOVED this idea that I came up with and were not dissappointed like the Gingerbread house. I highly recommend doing this with young children, they will love decorating their own snowmen! Unfortunately, I can't find the pictures on my computer - but they were super cute.
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