Recipe and Giveaway (!) from "Sweets on a Stick"

Want a cute and happy cupcake project to make with your kids (or, even better, someone else's kids)? How about these sunny Oreo cookie cupcakes on a stick? Recipe and image printed with permission from Linda Vandermeer's Sweets on a Stick: More than 150 Kid-friendly Recipes for Cakes, Candies and Pies on the Go!

Sunny Oreo Cookie Bouquet

A beautiful bunch of flower cupcakes with a cookie center

that can brighten up any day. Get the kids to practice piping

on a clean piece of parchment paper before starting on the

cupcakes.

POP TIP: If you don’t have a piping tip, just pipe round dollops of buttercream.

Piping bag fitted with #68 tip

1 batch Vanilla Buttercream Frosting, or

Cream Cheese Frosting, colored yellow

1 batch Quick and Easy Mini Chocolate Cupcakes (baked

and cooled)

Mini Oreo cookies

1. Fit the #68 tip to the piping bag and fill with the yellow

buttercream frosting. Pipe a small dot of buttercream in

the center of the mini cupcake.

2. Working around the edge of the cupcake, pipe sunflower

petals by placing the edge of the piping tip against the

cupcake, applying slight pressure to the piping bag for a

second while pulling away from the cupcake, and then

releasing the pressure while continuing to pull the tip away.

Pipe all the way around the cupcake at least 2 times.

3. Place a mini Oreo cookie in the center of the cupcake,

pressing down lightly with your fingertip to secure.

4. Insert skewers into Styrofoam blocks. Near the top of

each skewer, about ¾" from the top, tie on a small

length of ribbon with a knot. The ribbon will keep the

cupcake from sliding down the skewer.

5. Holding the sides of the cupcake, gently press the cupcake

down onto the skewer until it seems secure and the

ribbon is holding it in place.

[Adams Media, a division of F+W Media; December 2011]

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