Make a Monkey Cupcake!
Jennifer e-mailed us asking for a design for a monkey cupcake. Seems she has a little monkey in her family that she wants to surprise with cupcakes!
Our Big-Top project in our book Hello, Cupcake! has a whole circus full of ideas, including this adorable little monkey face.
How about starting with a banana cupcake! Frost the cupcake with chocolate icing. Trim a graham cracker to make the shape for the mouth area, then frost it pink. Add white frosting for the whites of the eyes and give each a brown mini M&M center with a chocolate jimmie for the eyebrows. Add more chocolate jimmies for the hair, chocolate O-shaped cereal for the ears, pink candy coated sunflower seeds for the nose, and red licorice lace for the mouth. A dot of white frosting on the eyes gives them a sparkle. We always make one cupcake all the way through, making any changes to get the look we want. Then we make an assembly line of all the parts and decorate the rest of the cupcakes.
Good luck! Please send an image if you can and let us
know how they turned out.
Happy decorating, Karen and Alan
Our Big-Top project in our book Hello, Cupcake! has a whole circus full of ideas, including this adorable little monkey face.
How about starting with a banana cupcake! Frost the cupcake with chocolate icing. Trim a graham cracker to make the shape for the mouth area, then frost it pink. Add white frosting for the whites of the eyes and give each a brown mini M&M center with a chocolate jimmie for the eyebrows. Add more chocolate jimmies for the hair, chocolate O-shaped cereal for the ears, pink candy coated sunflower seeds for the nose, and red licorice lace for the mouth. A dot of white frosting on the eyes gives them a sparkle. We always make one cupcake all the way through, making any changes to get the look we want. Then we make an assembly line of all the parts and decorate the rest of the cupcakes.
Good luck! Please send an image if you can and let us
know how they turned out.
Happy decorating, Karen and Alan
hi uncle alan guess who it is? sarah! i have the best idea for you. make a forest cupcake. put trees all over the cupcakes. put lions and tigers and bears in the forest. it will become a hit trust me. love u!
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Thanks for the picture on the blog site. It’s so cute!
Jennifer
Hi Jennifer,
Karen called me and asked if I could locate a monkey photo for you. I am going to try to post it to our BLOG for you later today. Just go to our website and then link to our blog or go to blog.hellocupcakebook.com to check. If I can find a close up of the monkey I will post it there.
All the best and keep on cupcaking,
Alan
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: hello, cupcake!
From: Jennifer Warren
Date: Fri, February 22, 2008 4:36 am
To:
Thanks for the ideas, they do help. I was thinking of using the monkey face
on his Robeez as a guide.
I'm curious, if I were to pre-order the book and send you the receipt, could
you send me a photo of your big top project?
Thanks again,
Jennifer
> Hi Jennifer, your little monkey! How about starting with a banana
> cupcake. We have a monkey face in the book in our big top cupcake
> project. I am sorry that I can't send you an image of it. But you could
> do something like the Paul Frank monkey logo and use mini Oreos for the
> ears and a trimmed graham cracker for the mouth area. Then frost it. I
> like to look at kids story books for inspiration and images on google.
> The go to the grocery store and think what you could use for the parts.
> M&M's for the eyes, mini chocolate chips for the nose, fruit leather for
> the mouth. I will make one first all the way through making my changes
> and then I make an assembly line of all the parts. Then I put each
> together.
>
> Sorry if I haven't been too much help. I know a photo is worth a
> thousand words. Maybe you have a favorite monkey face in one of your
> books at home. Good luck! Please send an image if you can and let us
> know how they turned out.
>
> Happy decorating, Karen
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: hello, cupcake!
>> From: Jennifer Warren
>> Date: Thu, February 21, 2008 5:35 pm
>> To:
>>
>>
>> Karen,
>> Thank you for your generous offer to help. I was thinking of something
>> monkey related, since we call him our little monkey. Maybe a cute face with
>> tail?
>>
>> I really liked your website, it was very inspiring!
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Jennifer
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