Truffula Tree Cupcakes

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These Cotton Candy Truffula Tree Cupcakes are a fun and easy dessert for your Lorax birthday party. Serve them on frosted grass cupcakes for a fun Lorax dessert.

Cotton Candy Truffula Trees Idea

Dr. Seuss-themed food crafts are the best. With so many colorful ideas from Dr. Seuss books, there is a potential for a lot of fun treat ideas for Dr. Seuss parties. If you are hosting a Dr. Seuuss party, you’ll love this Dr. Seuss Party Game, Pinwheel Truffula Trees party decoration, and Cat in the Hat Cupcakes

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What You’ll Love about this Lorax Cupcake

It is an easy cupcake to make
The cupcakes are so much fun and so colorful – A big hit with the kids
Perfect for a Lorax birthday party

Ingredients

White Cake Mix – I used Super Moist Cake Mix from Betty Crocker.
Vegetable Oil – I used 1/2 cup of vegetable oil because that is what the particular cake mix I purchased suggested on the back of the box. If you use another type of white cake mix, then your measurements might be different.
Large Eggs – I used three eggs per the boxed cake mix suggestions. Be sure to double-check with your cake mix on the amount of eggs needed.
Water – My cake mix recommended one cup of water. Again, check with your boxed mix and adjust this measurement if needed.
Cotton Candy – I found the perfect cotton candy at my local Walmart. Try to find tubs of round cotton candy that are around the same colors that you would find in The Lorax book. I used orange, purple, and pink cotton candy.
White Frosting – If you can find green frosting, then you can use that in place of the white frosting and green coloring
Food Coloring – You’ll add this to the white frosting.

Extra Equipment

Striped Paper Straws
Grass Tip for Piping Bag
Kitchen Scissors

How to Make Truffula Tree Cupcakes

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit

Mix the cake mix with oil, water, and eggs

Bake for 15-19 minutes, and let completely cool

Add a few drops of green food coloring to the white frosting and mix

Spoon the green frosting into a piping bag fitted with a grass tip

Use the grass tip to make grass-style frosting on the cupcake.

Do this by squeezing the frosting out to make long strings and pulling the tip straight up to release the grass frosting.

To make the truffula trees, cut a slice of cotton candy

Cut slits around the cotton candy to make it flow a little more around the edges

Cut the paper straws in half

Use a little frosting to glue the cotton candy to the straw – To do this, gently pull a cut piece apart and insert the frosted straw. Push the cotton candy around the straw.

Push the straw into the center of the cupcake.

Expert Tips

Cotton candy is very fragile. It will pull apart easily, so be gently when cutting it.

If you have one completely fall apart, use frosting as glue to glue it back together. If this does not work, use the tiniest drop of water to cement it together. Be careful with that strategy, becuase cotton candy melts in water

If you house is humid, then moisture will collect on the cotton candy, so it is best to wait until you are almost ready to serve the cupcakes before adding the cotton candy trees

FAQs

How to I make Grass Frosting?

Find a grass piping tip to add to your piping bag. Fill your piping bag with green frosing. Squeeze frosting onto the dessert to make long strings, stop squeezing and pull the frosting tip straight up to release the grass frosing

Can I make Fake Grass for dessert that is not frosting?

Yes. For years, bakers have been adding food coloring to sweetened coconut flakes to resemble grass for Easter desserts and other sweet treats

Make Ahead and Storage

You can make this cupcake several hours before the party

Storing: Store uncovered on the counter

I do not recommend storing the cotton candy trees in an airtight container. Moisture will start to accumulate and the cotton candy will get wet. It will shrink and harden

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