Elmo Cupcakes
These adorable Elmo Cupcakes are so fun to make, kids love them and they are perfect for a Sesame Street Birthday Party or an Elmo Party.
While searching for desserts for a Sesame Street Birthday Party, we knew that cupcakes were on the must-make list. And boy did we love the way these Elmo Cupcakes turned out … chocolate cupcakes, topped with our creamy and delicious homemade Buttercream Frosting and decorated with the most adorable Elmo face you have ever seen. They were the hit of the party. (And we never told a single soul how easy they were to make!)
Ingredients You Will Need
How to Make the Cupcakes
Step 1: Make a batch of cupcakes. You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes recipe. We used chocolate cupcakes but Vanilla Cupcakes would taste great too.
How to Make the Frosting
Step 2: The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe. It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here. One batch of frosting will be enough to frost approximately 16 cupcakes.
Step 3: Tint the frosting red, we used 10 drops of Red and 4 drops of Crimson Wilton Color Right Food Coloring to get this bright shade of red.
How to Decorate the Cupcakes
Step 4: Make sure the cupcake has completely cooled.
Step 5: Next, apply a thin layer of Red Buttercream Frosting.
Step 6: Elmo’s fur was created with Red Buttercream Frosting using a Wilton Frosting Tip #233.
Step 7: Fill the entire cupcake top with “Elmo Fur”.
Step 8: Use Oreos for Elmo’s mouth. You need to prepare the Oreo cookies before you start by opening them up and scraping out the filling. Then you need to carefully cut the Oreo Cookie crisps in half. We used a very sharp knife and carefully sawed them with the knife until they broke in half smoothly. The cookies break very easily, so go slowly. Add the half piece of Oreo cookie as Elmo’s smiling mouth.
Step 9: Then use an orange Peanut M&M candy for Elmo’s nose.
Step 10: For Elmo’s eyes, place two White Candy Melts eyes with the flat side of the melt facing up.
Step 11: And then use the Black Icing to create Elmo’s eyeballs in the middle of the White Candy Melts.
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Elmo Cupcakes
These adorable Elmo cupcakes are so fun to make, kids love them and they are perfect for a Sesame Street Birthday Party or an Elmo Party.
Ingredients
- 1 box Chocolate Cake Mix
- 1 batch The Best Buttercream Frosting
- Wilton #233 Frosting tip and decorating bag
- Oreo Cookies
- White Candy Melts
- Orange Peanut M&M's
- Black Icing
Instructions
- Make a batch of cupcakes. You can use a cake box mix, we have all the instructions you’ll need to make them taste just like homemade right here. Or you can make them from scratch with our yummy Homemade Chocolate Cupcakes recipe. We used chocolate cupcakes but Vanilla Cupcakes would taste great too.
- The key to these delicious cupcakes is our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe. It is light and creamy and buttery and super delicious! You will find the recipe and directions here. One batch of frosting will be enough to frost approximately 16 cupcakes.
- Tint the frosting red, we used 10 drops of Red and 4 drops of Crimson Wilton Color Right Food Coloring to get this bright shade of red.
- Make sure the cupcake has completely cooled.
- Next, apply a thin layer of Red Buttercream Frosting.
- Elmo's fur was created with Red Buttercream Frosting using a Wilton Frosting Tip #233.
- Fill the entire cupcake top with "Elmo Fur".
- Use Oreos for Elmo's mouth. You need to prepare the Oreo cookies before you start by opening them up and scraping out the filling. Then you need to carefully cut the Oreo Cookie crisps in half. We used a very sharp knife and carefully sawed them with the knife until they broke in half smoothly. The cookies break very easily, so go slowly. Add the half piece of Oreo cookie as Elmo's smiling mouth.
- Then use an orange Peanut M&M candy for Elmo's nose.
- For Elmo's eyes, place two White Candy Melts eyes with the flat side of the melt facing up.
- And then use the Black Icing to create Elmo’s eyeballs in the middle of the White Candy Melts.
Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!
