How to Make Cookie Monster and Elmo Cupcakes

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Sometimes I think I should have named this site SuperSimple.com.   Wait, I just checked and that is taken.  Good thing I stuck with Crystal & Co.

Yesterday I made the coolest cupcakes for Garrett’s birthday. They were so stinkin’ easy to make.   Ewe, wait a minute- www.stinkineasy.com is available. That would be a great blog name. Stinkin’ Easy… making easy stuff that isn’t stinky.

 I really should be a blogging consultant, hua? To think- I could be paid for my brilliance!

Imagine that.

Back to the cupcakes.

Yes, Garrett turned 12 and I made him Elmo and Cookie Monster cupcakes. Now, let me tell you why.

Sixth graders are weird. Is that an understatement? At the local skater shops, and other crazy stores, you can buy (for adults as well) shirts with the faces of Elmo or Cookie Monster on them. In turn, the kids have decided there is Team Cookie Monster and Team Elmo. Whose team are you on? 

Months ago I found this precious blog where the creator made these awesome Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster cupcakes using colored coconut.  Garrett and Anthony loved them.  I shared a link to her creation with my Crystal & Co. Facebook  likers. (You follow me over there, right?)  Now, I can not find the site… I spent an hour searching and Googling for it yesterday… so I opted to create off of memory. (I need to start bookmarking stuff.)

These cupcakes are awesomely adorable. You’re gonna love them! 

How to Make Cookie Monster and Elmo Cupcakes

Bake your  favorite cupcake recipe.

 

Let them cool. Then use store-bought icing, because we need easy today, and smear it over each cupcake. (Cream cheese icing rocks. Just sayin’.)

 

Take your coconut and place it in a ziplock bag. I did a bag for blue and a bag for red. Squeeze some food coloring in each bag. I used 3/4 of a bottle for each bag of coconut to get the depth of color I wanted. Seal the bag and squish it all around to mix the food coloring into the coconut. Really, it is that easy!

 

Pour your coconut onto plates- each color on a separate plate. Take each iced cupcake and cover it in coconut- red for Elmo and blue for Cookie Monster, obviously.

 

To make eyes, pipe some of the icing onto the cupcakes and place chocolate chips in the center of the icing to represent eyes.

For Cookie Monster, place a piece of cookie cereal where his mouth would be and for Elmo use an orange candy wafer to represent his nose.

 

 

How easy was that?!  Stinkin’ easy? What a fun birthday party this would make.

I am sharing this tutorial on these  crafty and resourceful sites.

23 Comments

  1. Oooh…these will go great with my coffee this morning!! Happy belated birthday to your little man! 😀
    BTW, just found your blog (thanks to twitter) and I got a question for you, how do you manage to not go crazy with 5 boys!? I have 2 and I am going nuts! :S Kudos to you!

    1. Sofia- I am so glad you found me! Yay!

      Five boys… well, I live in a delusional state of mind most of the time. I have embraced the fact that they will never stop peeing on the toilet seat. I pray for them daily. I pray for me daily. Out loud. usually. I have embraced the fact that boys are pigs and could sleep with 100 things on their beds and just because it bothers me does not mean it bothers them. I’ve learned to let go! 🙂

  2. I love them!

    For Faith’s second birthday, we did Elmo as a theme, so I ended up making an Elmo cupcake cake. She got one of the eyes when I passed them out, because red icing freaked me out. (Not because of the dye, but because I didn’t want her outfit messy, LOL!)

    This is it, but I’m not sure if it will link:
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v192/bourriquet76/Misc/DSC02276.jpg

  3. You’re right. That DOES look stinkin’ easy! I love coconut, so these are perfect!!

  4. abeachcottage says:

    Those are really cute cupcakes! and so easy to make too. Thanks for sharing 🙂

  5. o my heck sooo cute:) love it

  6. I helped my daughter make some Elmo and Cookie Monster cupcakes a year ago (http://neverbored08.blogspot.com/2010/01/creative-cupcakes.html). I wish I had known about the coconut trick. That would have been a LOT easier than getting the frosting tinted the correct color! I need to remember this in case we ever do it again. Thanks for sharing.

  7. Becky Perry says:

    They are so very cute. I think maybe even I could make those! 🙂

  8. Whitney Ulrich says:

    It is seriously fate that I found this post. I am planning an elmo birthday party for my little mans 1st birthday and these would be so cute. Thank you so much for sharing. I am visiting from tip junkies link party. Come say hi I love visitors
    tyandwhitneyulrich.blogspot.com

    1. Whitney, I love fate. 🙂

      Thanks for stopping by.

    1. Thanks Winnie. It doesn’t hurt that they are super easy to make! 🙂

  9. Those are so incredibly cute! The coconut is the perfect fur, who’d have thought?! Thanks so much for linking up!

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