Caterpillar Cupcakes
A creepy crawly critter made of colorful cupcakes.
Prep time: 10 min.
Baking time: 21 min.
Decoration time: 30 min.
Difficulty: Easy
What you'll need:
- 1 bag M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies
- 1 box (18.25-oz) yellow cake mix
- 2 cans (12-oz.) whipped vanilla frosting
- Orange food coloring
- 1 can (16-oz.) chocolate frosting
- 1 large marshmallow
- Blue and red licorice laces
- 2 12-cup cupcake pans
- 24 paper cupcake liners
- 3 resealable plastic bags
- Spatula
What to do:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line the cupcake pans with the paper cupcake liners.
- Prepare the cake mix according to the package instructions and divide the batter evenly between the prepared cupcake pans.
- Bake for approximately 18-21 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
- Spoon 1/2 cup of the vanilla frosting into a resealable plastic bag with a small snipped corner and set aside. Tint the remaining vanilla frosting orange and spoon into another resealable plastic bag with a small corner snipped.
- Reserve one cupcake for the caterpillar's face. Using the photograph as guide, arrange the remaining cupcakes into a caterpillar shape. Frost the top of all the cupcakes orange so that it looks like one big cake. Spoon 1 cup of chocolate frosting into a resealable plastic bag with a small corner snipped. Pipe horizontal lines every 2 inches down the entire length of the caterpillar. Cover the chocolate lines with a continuous lines of M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies.
- Frost the reserved cupcake orange. Cut the marshmallow in half and attach to the cupcake with the cut side up. Pipe a dot with the vanilla frosting and attach M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies for the eyes. Pipe dots to create a smile and attach M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies. Use the red licorice laces for antennae and the blue ones for eyelashes.

