Description
For a fun and easy fall dessert, you have to make these cute scarecrow cupcakes! They’d be a lot of fun to decorate with kids!
Ingredients
- Cupcakes made from boxed cake mix or from my homemade yellow cake recipe. For these, I used a boxed chocolate cake mix.
- White frosting
- Milk chocolate chips – two for each cupcake
- Orange gumdrop candy (like Dots) – one for each cupcake
- Red candy-coated chocolate candies (like M&Ms) – two for each cupcake
- Chocolate jimmies/sprinkles – 1 tablespoon will make approximately 12 cupcakes
- Vanilla sugar wafer cookies – two for each cupcake
- Red peel apart candy (like Twizzlers Pull ‘n’ Peel candy), separated – one unpeeled strand
- Coconut flakes (sweetened or unsweetened)- about 1 teaspoon for each cupcake
- White chocolate or vanilla almond bark, melted – about 1/4 cup for 12 cupcakes (melting wafers are especially good for this, but regular chocolate is also fine)
Instructions
- Bake the cupcakes. Then prepare a plate or baking sheet with waxed paper. Melt the chocolate or almond bark on the stovetop or in the microwave and set aside.
- Begin by making the scarecrow hats. Each scarecrow requires two vanilla sugar wafer cookies. Cut one of the wafers (for each scarecrow) to be about 1 inch shorter than the other cookie. Using a toothpick, run melted chocolate or almond bark along one side of the shorter cookie. Press the chocolate-lined edge against the longer cookie, centering the shorter cookie.
- Place the cookie hat on the baking sheet. As you press the two cookies together, a line of chocolate will squeeze out. Cut a piece of the red peel apart candy to match the length of the seam and press it into the chocolate.
- Allow hats to set completely at room temperature or place in the refrigerator for faster results.
- Toast the coconut flakes under the broiler of a toaster oven or conventional oven (with the broiler set to low). Stir every 1 to 2 minutes until the coconut has turned a golden brown (watch it closely- don’t let it burn). Remove from oven and set aside.
- Ice each cupcake with frosting. Gently press hat into place. Arrange chocolate morsels for eyes, orange gumdrop candy for nose, chocolate jimmies for mouth, and candy-coated chocolate candies for the corners of the mouth/cheeks. Press coconut along the hairline.
- Enjoy! If you have extra, or have prepared these to serve later, store the scarecrow cupcakes in an airtight container in the refrigerator.