Making A Life

My oldest graduated from Kindergarten this week and I couldn’t pass up the chance to bake some cupcakes for the celebration party. In the process I learned that you can make and ice about 60 mini cupcakes from a standard boxed cake mix and tub of frosting. These bathing beauties were vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, dipped in light and dark brown (sand) sugar. Topped with a strip of fruit roll-up for the towel and a gummy bear. Garnished with a paper parasol these were a hit with the kiddies.

Ingredients

• Boxed cake mix
• eggs
• oil
• Tub of frosting
• gummy bears
• light/dark brown sugar
• fruit roll ups
• paper umbrella

Instructions

• Bake the cupcakes as per the box instructions
• Ice once cooled
• Roll iced cupcakes in the sugar
• Cut the fruit roll up into towel sized pieces (I did 1″ pieces for mini cupcakes)
• put a dab of icing on the top of the cupcake to attach the towel (fruit roll up)
• Put a dab of icing in the middle of the towel and attach the gummy bear
• decorate with a paper umbrella