North Pole-r Bear Cupcakes

Ingredients:

• Your favourite cupcake recipe or mix
• Your favourite buttercream frosting
• Flaked coconut
• Cornstarch
• Large marshmallows

Tools:

• Wilton Candy Eyeballs
• 12 cup muffin pan
• Cooling rack
• Spatula
• Wilton 12-Inch Disposable Decorating Bags, 12-Count
• Wilton Black Icing Color
• Wilton Baking Cups
• Wilton Round Cake Decorating Tip 12
• Scissors

Directions:

1. Bake cupcakes: Prepare cupcakes following recipe instructions. Using standard size batter scoop, spoon into baking cups. Bake and cool.
2. Make ears and muzzles: Dip scissors into cornstarch, then cut marshmallows in half widthwise. Take one of each cut half, and cut again lengthwise for the ears. Trim remaining halves to ½ inch for muzzle.
3. Decorate cupcakes: With spatula, smooth ice cupcakes with buttercream frosting. Attach ears at the tops of cupcakes, attach muzzle to bottom. Sprinkle coconut on cupcakes, press in slightly.
4. Add eyes and nose: Prepare decorating bag with buttercream and tip 12, pipe small dots of icing to attach 2 candy eyes to each cupcake. Tint buttercream black with icing color. Prepare another decorating bag with black buttercream and tip 5. Pipe noses on marshmallow muzzle, pat smooth.