From: Martha Stewart
Happy times with kids call for cheerful cupcakes.
Easier to serve than cake, cupcakes require no slicing, no plates, and
no forks -- and every child gets her fair share of icing.
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These sweet treats start as Chocolate Cupcakes or Vanilla Cupcakes iced with Swiss Meringue Buttercream -- perfect for spreading in thin layers or sculpting into thick mounds (and licking from the bowl).
The
cupcakes can be baked a week ahead and frozen, but decorate them no
more than a day before serving. Set up an assembly line, and put kids in
charge of affixing candy eyes, gumdrop cheeks, and other trimmings.
Pack the cupcakes in a shallow plastic container, and stuff crumpled
waxed paper in between. Then dole them out and watch kids marvel for a
second before opening wide!
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Butterfly Cupcake How-To
Come
April, pretzel-winged butterflies take flight; their bodies -- piped
dots of blue buttercream -- end in candy-coated- chocolate heads and
licorice antennae.
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