Here’s an idea for President’s Day cupcakes. A fun President’s Day party treat. Delicious and easy-to-make Abe Lincoln cupcakes will be the perfect treat for a fun day.
Abe Lincoln Cupcakes
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Ingredients Needed for These Abe Lincoln Cupcakes
- Baked vanilla cupcakes in cupcake wrappers
- Chocolate Frosting
- Reese’s Candy – regular-sized cups
- Snack Sized Hershey bars
- Candy Eyes
Extra Equipment Needed:
- Pastry Bag with a writing tip
- knife
How do you make Abraham Lincoln Cupcakes?
Grabe the printable with full instructions below
- insert a Reese’s about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the cupcake
- using a writing tip, make a beard out of the chocolate frosting
- add candy eyes
- place half of the Hershey’s snack bar over the Reese’s
Make-Ahead and Storage:
These cupcakes are best eaten the day of making them but can, when covered and stored at room temperature will stay fresh for up to 2 days.
Tips and Tricks for these Abraham Lincoln Treats:
- make these cupcakes as easy on yourself as possible by using a boxed cake mix baked in a muffin tin (cupcake pan)
- another shortcut is to use store-bought chocolate frosting
- you should be able to find a bag of snack-size Hershey bars in the candy aisle, but if you can’t – you could always use regular-sized bars broken apart in sections for the hat
- cut a section out for Reese’s cup with a knife and notch out another bit of cupcake above that for the hat top to rest on
- if you are struggling to get something to hold because your frosting is too thin – mix a little bit of powdered sugar into the frosting to thicken it up
- no need to frost these cupcakes. Kids will get a bit of frosting from Abe’s beard and a little under the eyes and Hershey’s bar, as well. Other than that, they can enjoy all of the yummy treats on top of the cupcake
Is your frosting too thin?
- If you find your frosting is too runny to hold anything, try mixing powdered sugar into the frosting to thicken it up
- Another method is to mix in softened butter
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Recipe
Abraham Lincoln – President’s Day Cupcake Idea
Equipment
- Pastry Bag with a writing tip
- spreading knife
Ingredients
- 18 baked vanilla cupcakes in cupcake wrappers
- 6 oz. Chocolate Frosting
- 18 Reese’s Candy – regular-sized cups
- 18 Snack Sized Hershey bars
- 36 Candy Eyes
Instructions
- about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the cupcake, cut out a section the same width as the Reese’s cup
- cut a small notch above that for the Hershey’s bar to set
- insert Reese’s cup into the cupcake so the top part is facing down
- starting at one side of the Reese’s, pipe chocolate frosting in a curl pattern making a large U shape going all the way to the bottom of the cupcake, and ending up on the other side of the Reese’s
- place a small amount of frosting on the back of 2 candy eyes and place them under the Reese’s for Abe’s eyes
- break the snack-sized Hershey bar in half and place some frosting on the side with the wording and notches
- set that down into your section you cut out centered – above the Reese’s
Notes
Nutrition
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Made these cute cupcakes for President’s day this past week. My kids loved learning about all the different president’s and then trying to recreate them as a cupcake. It was so fun!! ❤️
That is so great! I’m so glad that you had fun with this idea! Thank you for coming back to tell me.