Cupcakes: Your Fave Food!

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Cupcakes are the perfect canvas for celebrating your favorite things! Today, we’re using cupcake illusions to recreate your favorite foods. Are you Team Ramen Noodles or Team Cereal?

Recipe 1/4

Birthday Enchiladas

60 Min

Easy

6-8 Servings

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 pounds (680g) pork ribs, divided into individual ribs
  • 1 small carrot (2 ounces; 60g)
  • 1 small yellow onion, halved (4 ounces; 120g)
  • 5 black peppercorns
  • 2 bay leaves

Directions:

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Recipe 1/8

Ramen Noodles

10 minutes

Easy

6 cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 6 cupcakes
  • ½ cup orange candy melts, melted
  • ½ cup green candy melts, melted
  • 1 cup beige buttercream
  • ½ cup yellow buttercream
  • ½ cup white buttercream
  • ½ cup pink buttercream
  • Pocky chocolate sticks

Directions:

  1. Cut the top off of each cupcake. Use a circular cutter to remove the centers, leaving a ring and a circle. Then, cut the round parts into small squares and circles. Cover the squares with orange candy melts and the circles with green candy melts, and let them set.
  2. Place a “ring” from the last step upside down on top of each cupcake. Fill them with beige buttercream using a grass piping tip to simulate ramen noodles. Add the coated orange and green pieces to represent carrots and peas. Form eggs with white and yellow buttercream, and add details with pink buttercream to simulate pickled ginger.
  3. Decorate with Pocky chocolate sticks to mimic chopsticks, then enjoy!

Recipe 2/8

Taco

10 minutes

Easy

6 cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 6 cupcakes
  • 1 cup green buttercream
  • ½ cup brown buttercream
  • ¼ cup shredded coconut, dyed green
  • ¼ cup red buttercream
  • ¼ cup white buttercream
  • yellow candy melts

Directions:

  1. Cut the top of each cupcake horizontally and then cut that circle in half. Cover the cupcakes with green buttercream using a star tip, and add the two halves perpendicular on top to simulate the “tortilla” of the taco. 
  2. Add brown buttercream to represent the meat, then sprinkle the green coconut dyed for the lettuce. Decorate with dots of red buttercream as tomato and a white spiral line for the cream. Serve the cupcakes on a plate and add a final touch with grated yellow candy melt. Enjoy!

Recipe 3/8

Gumball Machine

15 minutes

Easy

6 cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 6 cupcakes
  • 1 cup white candy melts, melted
  • 6 Reese's peanut butter cups
  • 6 Hershey’s kisses
  • 1 cup red candy melts, melted
  • 1 cup red buttercream
  • ½ cup mini marshmallows
  • 1 cup confetti sprinkles

Directions:

  1. Pour the white candy melts into a silicone half-sphere mold. Let it set, then unmold. Reserve any leftover chocolate.
  2. Cover the Reese’s and Kisses with melted red candy melts. Allow them to dry, and transfer any leftover candy melts in a piping bag for assembly later.
  3. Top each cupcake with red buttercream and gently press with a square of parchment paper to smooth the surface. Chill the cupcakes for 10 minutes.
  4. Remove the parchment paper from the cupcakes and place a candy covered Reese’s on each one. Use the reserved candy melts in the piping bag to attach a white chocolate hemisphere to the top of each Reese’s cup. Fill the cavity with mini candies and a tablespoon of sprinkles. Lightly heat the edge of the second white hemisphere and join to form a complete sphere.
  5. Cover half of each sphere with melted white chocolate and add more confetti sprinkles. Decorate the top with a Kiss for a final touch.

Recipe 4/8

S’mores

10 minutes

Easy

6 cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 6 frosted chocolate cupcakes
  • 1 cup chocolate buttercream
  • ½ cup chocolate syrup
  • 12 marshmallows

Directions:

  1. Cut each cupcake in half and set aside the tops. 
  2. Cover the bases with chocolate buttercream, add chocolate syrup, and two white marshmallows. Use a torch to toast the marshmallows. Drizzle with more syrup and sandwich with the inverted cupcake tops to form a s’mores sandwich. Enjoy!

Recipe 5/8

Sushi

10 minutes

Easy

6 servings

Ingredients:

  • 6 cupcakes
  • 1 cup white buttercream
  • 1 cup white sprinkles
  • 1 cup black buttercream
  • ½ cup hydrated orange tapioca pearls
  • Small colorful candies
  • Green gummy candies
  • Swedish Fish candies

Directions:

  1. Place a dollop of frosting on each cupcake and then invert the cupcakes onto a bowl of white sprinkles. Cover the sides of each cupcake with black buttercream.
  2. For the first design, only place hydrated orange tapioca pearls on top.
  3. For the second design, add colorful candy and strips of green cut gummy candies.
  4. For the last design, place a candy fish and pipe a strip of black buttercream over it.
  5. Serve the sushi to your guests and enjoy!

Recipe 6/8

Neapolitan Ice Cream

15 minutes

Easy

6 cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 6 cupcakes
  • 1 cup strawberry buttercream
  • 1 cup vanilla buttercream
  • 1 cup chocolate buttercream
  • 1 cup white frosting
  • ½ cup round colored sprinkles
  • ½ cup chocolate syrup
  • ½ cup ice cream sprinkles
  • 6 maraschino cherries

Directions:

  1. In a rectangular mold, place equal parts of strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate buttercream. Let it cool for 10 minutes.
  2. Place a dollop of white frosting on each cupcake. Invert the cupcakes and flatten the frosting on a non-stick mat or parchment paper. Freeze until the frosting is firm, about 10 minutes.
  3. Remove the cupcakes from the mat and cover the sides with round colored sprinkles.
  4. Use a small ice cream scoop to portion out Neapolitan buttercream, and add a scoop to each cupcake.
  5. Top with chocolate syrup, colorful sprinkles, and a maraschino cherry. Your ice cream cupcake will be ready to enjoy.

Recipe 7/8

BBQ

10 minutes

Easy

6 cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 6 cupcakes
  • ¼ cup Tootsie Rolls mini candies
  • ¼ cup yellow and red chewy candies
  • ½ cup black candy melts, melted
  • 1 cup red-orange buttercream

Directions:

  1. Shape hamburger patties by molding the Tootsie Roll into a round shape. Use a toothpick to press horizontal lines and give it a grill appearance.
  2. Cut a piece of the yellow candies, mold it to make the hamburger cheese, and place it on top of the patties. Mold the red candies to make sausages. Set aside.
  3. Draw the grills using melted black candy melts on parchment paper and let them dry.
  4. Decorate the cupcake with red and orange buttercream to simulate the fire of the barbecue. Place the candy melt grills, hamburger patty, and sausages on top. Enjoy!

Recipe 8/8

Cereal Bowl

5 minutes

Easy

6 cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • 6 cupcakes
  • 1 cup yellow buttercream
  • 1 cup white buttercream
  • ½ cup blue buttercream
  • Froot Loops cereal

Directions:

  1. Cut the top of the cupcake and set it aside. On the base, add a dollop of yellow buttercream, then invert the top of the cupcake onto it.
  2. Cover with white buttercream and pipe a line with blue buttercream to represent the edge of the cereal bowl. Top with Froot Loops and add a small plastic spoon. The cupcake will be ready to enjoy as part of a fun breakfast!

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