Yield: 24 cupcakes
Decorate: 1 hr
[post_ads]Ingredients
- 24 Nutter Butter cookies
- 3 strawberry Twizzlers
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 48 Wilton edible candy eyes
- 24 orange candy-coated sunflower seeds
- 24 baked jumbo chocolate cupcakes
- Canned chocolate frosting
- Candy corns (about 190)
Directions
- Using a serrated knife, cut off about one-fourth from a short side of each Nutter Butter cookie.
- With scissors, cut Twizzlers into pieces measuring about 1/2 x 1/3 inch.
- In a small bowl, whisk confectioners' sugar and 4 tsp water, creating a thick frosting.
- Using sugar frosting, attach eyes, a candy-coated sunflower seed for the beak and a Twizzlers piece for the wattle to each Nutter Butter.
- Spread cupcakes with chocolate frosting, stick a decorated Nutter Butter into each cupcake and add candy corns as tail feathers (7 or 8 per cupcake).
