Cookie Monster Cupcakes

Before I start I want to make it clear these are not my idea,I saw them on a blog & regretfully didn't add the blog to my favourites,so if anyone here knows the blog I would be more than happy to add the link to my post :)

Ok with that clarified I will babble on...lol.I had seen these on a blog & promised Darragh I would make them with him this week,as luck would have it I am sick & kept putting it off but today just had to keep my promise.They were very fun to make,Darragh is only 5 & loved messing with the icing & placing the cookie in the monsters mouth & attaching the eyes,definetly a fun evening for him :).

Have to say the blue icing left his mouth rather coloured,even his teeth,hopefully we won't be repeating theses again too soon....lol

Too start off we made a small amount of cookie dough & made mini cookies....

Then used the basic cupcake mix off...

8oz Plain Flour

8oz Castor Sugar

8oz Butter

2 Tsp of Baking Powder

4 Eggs

The icing consisted of....

225grms of Butter

400grms of Icing sugar

The colours I used to get the one I needed were

Sugarflair Baby Blue

Americolor Eletric Blue

I placed the icing on the cake with a knife,added the cookie & then mashed with a fork to get the hairy look....lol

Then I used some white chocolate buttons,melted some milk chocolate & piped it onto the white buttons & placed them on the cupcake as eyes ( sorry for the quality of the pics ).....

Thanks for looking :)

Jeany