Sesame Street Cupcakes

Hi Everyone!
Today's post is non stamping related but I wanted to share these photos with you.
This past weekend, my cousin's son had his First Birthday Party and the theme for his birthday was Sesame Street. I am sure you have seen many many Sesame Street Cupcakes out there, made many different ways. Some are made with fondant, sprinkles, piping.
I decided to tackle on Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird with my good gal pal Chanthou
Let me tell you, these little cups of sinful sugar did NOT come together as easy as we thought it would.
In total we spent about 3.5 hours, just to complete 18!! There was alot of trial and error. No biggie though, I will be making the whole Sesame Street gang again at the end of the month for my cousins babies birthday.

Here comes Big Bird:

I just noticed as I uploaded this picture how STUNNED Big Bird looks, but I promise, he did not look that startled. To make him I just added some icing to the cupcake, dipped the top in a small dish with yellow sprinkles. Hubby said that yellow Mike and Ikes would make a good beak, good choice! I cut it in half and added som red icing in the middle. His eyes are mini marshmellows, halved again and mini chocolate chips for the pupils.

Now, on to the Grouch: (sorry about the blurry pictures)


If you look closely at the picture above, you can see that the first two cupcakes at the top have a more define texture in his fur. Well.... the reason why we couldnt continue with the piping is, we had bought a jar of premade whipped topping, and the only problem with that, was the icing was just so soft and light that it took heat from our hands very quickly and just started to slowly metl as we were trying to pipe out his fur! It did look great when it worked, but it was clear the icing was just not going to work with us.
The tip that I used was Wilton's #233 grass tip. Food colouring was used for his green fur, again the halved marshmellows and mini chips for his eyes. For his brows, I used chocolate icing and used tip #47. For his mouth it was just broken orea cookies, (I used a butter knife to shave off any bumps to get a straight line) and then some red icing inside his mouth.

I hope you have enjoyed this post and I hope I inspired you to get out those baking supplies!