Campfire Cupcakes
These Campfire Cupcakes are decorated with green frosting grass, a graham cracker tent, candy campfire, marshmallow, and sleeping bag for a fun camping dessert idea kids will love.
Yield: 1 cupcake
Cost: $5
Equipment
- 1 toothpick
- 1 Kraft brown paper cupcake liner optional
Materials
- 1 baked cupcake (any flavor)
- Green frosting• Red frosting• Yellow frosting
- Grass piping tip• Star piping tip and Piping bag
- Mini pretzel sticks
- 1 Graham cracker sheet
- 1 dehydrated mini marshmallow
- Airheads Xtremes rainbow candy strip
- 1 gummy bear
Instructions
- Place baked cupcake into kraft paper liner if using.
- Pipe green frosting over the top of the cupcake using a grass decorating tip until the surface resembles grass.
- Stack pieces of mini pretzel sticks near the front of the cupcake to create campfire logs.
- Use frosting to secure.
- Add yellow and red frosting to one piping bag fitted with a star tip and pipe flames over the pretzel logs.
- Push a dehydrated marshmallow onto a toothpick and place next to the campfire.
- Break one graham cracker sheet lengthwise to create two long rectangles.
- Pipe frosting along the top edge and press graham crackers together to form a tent.
- Place tent onto the cupcake.
- Cut a small rectangle from an Airheads Xtremes rainbow strip and tuck inside the tent as a sleeping bag.
- Add a gummy bear near or inside the tent and serve.
Notes
• Any cupcake flavor works.
• Natural food coloring may create pink or magenta flames instead of bright red.
• Traditional gel food coloring creates brighter campfire colors.
• Decorate the same day for best texture.