Adorable Puppy and Kitten Cupcakes: Guest Post from Annie One Can Cook!

Hi All! I’m Annie from over at Annie One Can Cook, a cooking and lifestyle blog that covers everything from food to weddings to life as a newlywed (my blog is “the funniest, sweetest and most entertaining blog on the net” -Carol, Annie’s Mom). It’s such an honor to be joining the Chirping Moms today!

If you’re familiar with my blog, you know that I have a terrible sugar addiction–I can never get enough! The ~~great thing~~ problem is that when I make something sweet, it’s usually just for my husband and me to enjoy. So I was so thrilled and honored when I was asked to make cupcakes for our local humane societies annual fundraiser. I knew right off the bat that it needed to be something animal related but I couldn’t figure out what.

Until I was flipping through my Betty Crocker Just Cupcakes cookbook.. Look at what I found right away:

B.I.N.G.O. And these were the cupcakes I was gonna make–o!

Seriously, how adorable are these little guys? And they look like they’d be a cinch to make, right?

Wrong, Annie. Wrong.

I took the easy route and used boxed white cake mix (I usually do homemade but I was trying to save a little time). They came out beautifully from the oven.

Perfect, right?

Then I began to frost. And frost. And frost (I was making 3 dozen).

Whew, now the hard part was over. Time for decorating fun!!

*3 1/2 Hours Later*

Oh no.. they didn’t look anything like the picture. Wa-wa-waaaa. I was so bummed..

Then my husband came home and gave me a little bit of a pep talk and I decided they weren’t so bad after all. They were kind of cute in their own Betty Crocker fail sort of way..

By morning, I decided I was really proud of my cupcakes. This is the first time I’ve ever done any kind of dessert decorating like this (minus my 4H cake decorating fails–I was the only person in my division and I still placed 2nd or 3rd in my category). I guess you gotta start somewhere, right?

Here they are on display at the fundraiser. I got so many nice compliments on them and they went over very well!

If you’re wanting to make critter cupcakes, here are the candies I used:

Puppies

Mini Oreos–cut in half (for ears)

Chocolate chips (eyes)

M&Ms (nose)

Small gumdrop–cut vertically into thirds (tongue)

Kittens

Small gumdrops (ears)

Chocolate chips (eyes and nose)

Twizzlers–cut into 1 inch strips (whiskers)–cut additional tiny piece for mouth

Well folks, that does it for me! Please swing by Annie One Can Cook sometime to say hi! A huge thanks to the fabulous Julie and Courtney for letting me stop by today and share my cupcakes!

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