Wild Kratts Party — Jungle Animal Cupcakes Directions!

The jungle/safari ani­mal cup­cakes were such a hit at the boys’ Wild Kratts Birth­day party! (Yes, I know it was ages ago!) At the time, I was so busy that I didn’t take the time to take step by step pho­tos and fig­ured I wouldn’t really do a post on them. BUT, I’ve received so many com­ments and emails about them, that I decided to just go ahead and do a quick post about them!

First up, you must know that I got the idea for the croc­o­dile and hippo from my favorite cup­cake book…

“What’s New, Cup­cake?” is my favorite lit­tle bak­ing book. It has great ideas & designs, com­plete with great instruc­tions for all kinds of dif­fer­ent hol­i­days and themes. There are quite a few dif­fer­ent ani­mal ideas in here. The ones that applied best for what I was doing were the croc­o­dile and hippo. There is also a cute flamingo idea (my friend actu­ally did them for her daughter’s birth­day party).

Cute huh?! But, they are WAY more involved than the croc­o­dile and hippo. So, I opted not to include those. I ended up doing mon­keys instead–they were SUPER easy! If you want step-by-step instruc­tions with pic­tures, I def­i­nitely rec­om­mend get­ting the book. But, here’s at least a brief descrip­tion in case you can’t tell from the pictures.

Hippo & Croc­o­dile Cupcakes:

• Nut­ter But­ter cookies
• white choco­late or white bark/candy coating
• mini choco­late chips
• Fruity “O’s” cereal (either the fruity Chee­rios or Fruit Loops work well)
• green candy melts or green frosting
• black dec­o­rat­ing icing or choco­late jimmies

The croc­o­dile & hippo head are both Nut­ter But­ter cook­ies. For the croc­o­dile, you just need to cut the cookie into a tri­an­gu­lar shape. Then coat the cookie either in melted green candy coat­ing or green frost­ing. Then pipe on some white teeth & put two jim­mies sprin­kles (or use black dec­o­rat­ing icing) on for nose holes. The eyes, hippo’s ears & nose (which are all the cereal) are just held on with a lit­tle piped melted white candy bark. For the eyes, just stick on mini choco­late chips before the melted coat­ing hard­ens. Mon­key  Cupcakes:

• Vanilla Wafers
• white choco­late or white bark/candy coating
• mini choco­late chips
• pull-apart licorice rope
• mini-chocolate chips
• black dec­o­rat­ing incing

The monkey’s ears & muz­zle are the vanilla wafers. For the ears, cut one wafer in half. For the muz­zle, cut off the top 1/3. The eyes are the same as the hippo’s. Then, for the mon­key nose, I just used two dots of black dec­o­ra­tor icing, The mouth is a piece of pull apart licorice stuck on with the melted candy coating.

Really, pretty easy! And they were a BIG hit with the kids! Def­i­nitely made for the per­fect desserts for our Wild Kratts Party!!

Have you made any types of ani­mal cupcakes?

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