I've expanded upon the cupcake birthday party for my daughter's first birthday and focused on a particular theme. She isn't really into many Disney or other characters, but definitely knows who Elmo and Cookie Monster are. So, we had a Sesame Street birthday party complete with Elmo, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster (see below) as the sweet treats.
I ordered special cupcake papers for each one. I had the solid colors for all of them, but used the fun Elmo ones for him.
After a huge batch of buttercream and a few bottles of food coloring, I used the star tip to pipe each color on to make it look like "fur." This was the easy part...
I used white chocolate fondant and colored it black for the mouth, used white circles for the eyes, orange for Elmo's nose and yellow for Big Bird's beak. This was the difficult part....now it was time for the assembly of a few dozen happy monsters.
They were almost fully assembled the evening prior and brought out for the finishing touches (eyes and oscars red tongue) on the day of the birthday about an hour before it started. Here are all the monsters on display before they were gobbled up.
Big Bird's beak was a little tough to get just right.
Cookie Monster was my favorite.
Oscar's eyebrows were a little hard to get just right, but he's a little messy anyway, right?
Elmo has a huge nose! Those that liked the fondant definitely chose him!
All displayed and ready for the taking.
Can you tell which one the birthday girl picked out? Yep...that would be Elmo!
Meringues
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