How to Decorate Panda Cupcakes

My daughter called me while I was baking the cupcakes and ask me what I was doing. When I told her I was making panda cupcakes, she decided to join me.

We laughed until we cried several times while making these cupcakes for this article.

Some of the photos are of the cupcakes I decorated and some of the cupcakes in the pictures were the panda cupcakes my daughter decorated.

Since this article is about decorating the cupcakes, we are going to start with the cupcakes already baked, cooled and ready for decorating.

One note about cooking your cupcakes, remember the miniature cupcakes for the face only require about 8 min. to bake. Use a toothpick to determine exact length of baking time. When a toothpick poked in the center of the cupcake comes out clean, the cupcake is ready.

Large Cupcakes (White or Chocolate ~ We used chocolate)

White Miniature Cupcakes

Chocolate Frosting

White Frosting

Black Frosting (We used a small tube of Black Gel)

Oreo Cookies

Oreo Cereal or Chocolate Cheerios Cereal

Miniature Chocolate Chips

Miniature Marshmallows

We used regular chocolate chips for some of the noses

Green Foliage optional

Step 1: For each panda, cut 2 Oreo cookies in half. These will be used for the arms and legs.

Step 2: Attach the flat side of one marshmallow to each miniature cupcake with a dollop of white frosting approximately 2/3 of the way down from the top of the "face".

Step 3: Ice the entire miniature cupcake with white frosting. This will be the head of the panda.

Step 4: Paint on eyes and mouth with black frosting. Place an inverted miniature chocolate chip at the top of each eye patch.

Step 5: Finish the nose with either black frosting or inverted chocolate chips.

Step 6: Apply the ears using 2 chocolate cheerios per panda.

Step 7: Scrape the white filling out of one Oreo cookie for each bear.

Step 8: Place the black cookies in a zip-lock bag and finely crush them. (We used a rolling pin)

Step 9: Ice the large cupcakes with chocolate frosting.

Step 10: Dip each large chocolate cupcake in the crushed cookie crumbs.

Step 11: Attach the head to the body. We used a toothpick in each one.

Step 12: Attach the arms with a dollop of chocolate frosting.

Step 13: Paint on claws with white frosting. (We used a toothpick to apply frosting)

Step 14: Set the feet at the base of the cupcake. (Feet are not attached)

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