With April fools day coming up, I just had to do something fun for the boys’ preschool class. When Keanna was in preschool I made these totally fun spaghetti cupcakes.
Looks like it belongs on a potluck table! |
Piped frosting, strawberry jam, Ferrero Rocher, and grated white chocolate. |
But I’m not very creative. I get all my really good ideas from other people. Enter Pinterest! My sister found this post about nacho cupcakes from Sweet Simple Stuff. And they really are simple! A lot of the fun cupcakes I’ve done in the past require a lot of little candies and cereal that I normally don’t have on hand.
Had to buy: sandwich cookies, root beer Jelly Bellys, and Milk Duds |
Had to buy: chocolate wafer cookies, orange slice candy, candy-coated sunflower seeds |
You can use any cupcake recipe or any frosting (even canned!). I chose to go with yellow cake (using this recipe with yellow cake mix and vanilla pudding) and a vanilla powdered sugar frosting.
The cinnamon chips are super easy to make and are a great treat! I’ve made these before and served them with fruit and peanut butter dip. All you do is get some cinnamon sugar to stick to a tortilla, cut it into wedges, and bake them. You can use cooking spray to get the cinnamon sugar to stick. But I don’t buy cooking spray so I just brush some water onto each tortilla. You could also use melted butter.
One thing that helps get the realism is to put your cupcakes in a dish that you’d expect to use for nachos. I went with a 9X13 cake pan, a pie plate, and some to-go boxes.
Flour tortillas (soft taco size work best)
Water, cooking spray, or melted butter
Cinnamon sugar
Preheat oven to 425°. Brush or spray each tortilla with water, cooking spray, or melted butter. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
Using a pizza cutter, cut tortilla into wedges.
I wanted small chips for the cupcakes so I cut each tortilla like this. |
For a sweet snack, I just cut them into wedges. |
Transfer to baking sheet. Bake 7-9 minutes or until golden brown and crispy. Chips will crisp up as they cool.
Soooo yummy!! |
Nacho Cupcakes
Cupcakes
Frosting, tinted with yellow and orange
Strawberry or raspberry jam
Cinnamon chips
Sour straws, snipped
Position cupcakes in dish right against each other. Place a blob of frosting on each one and spread cupcake cake style, covering cupcakes completely. Or you could pipe the frosting as Sweet Simple Stuff does.
Yes, it's technically a CCC. Sorry, Jen. |
Add a dollop of jam on top of each cupcake.
My apologies for this horribly yellow, 80's fluorescent lighting photo. |
Insert cinnamon chips into frosting and sprinkle with snipped sour straws.
What kid (or grown-up) wouldn't be excited to see this on the table on April Fools day?!? |
If you want to go all out, you could add a little vanilla or plain yogurt for sour cream and snipped black licorice for olives.
2 comments:
Those are so creative! And the meatball ones really had me stumped! They looks so real! Great ideas!
And I'm curious-- do you not buy cooking spray because of cost, or the chemicals? I usually get one of the ones at Trader Joe's that doesn't have the propellants, but was wondering if there was something else I should be watching out for.
I mainly don't buy cooking spray because of the cost. The price per ounce is outrageous---paying for convenience. But also, you do end up breathing some in. And I find them to be messier. Even if I spray them over the sink, I still end up with oil where I don't want it. I usually just use regular vegetable (or olive) oil and a paper towel.
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