The Baby is going through the Terrible Twos and being, well – grouchy. So I made cupcakes. Maybe I can toss them at him to appease his anger. Ugh. Call me when he’s three.

ingredients:
frosting tinted green
black frosting
marshmallows
m&ms
small lollipops

Tint some frosting. As always I recommend using gel food coloring. Liquid food coloring from grocery stores is AWFUL. Frost your cupcakes. You can pipe the frosting, but I found that if you just frost it…messily you get some pretty good looking Oscar ratty-looking fur.

Now for the eyes I used marshmallows, but the key to Oscar is, his eyes are kinda half slanty. Not full and round like Elmo’s. So I cut the marshmallow in half and then in half again:

Place them on the cupcake, then pipe his unibrow. Now you can use m&ms for the eyes, but since my Kid is allergic to chocolate, I just piped the eyes as well.

Using the black frosting again, I piped the mouth – I considered using fondant, but I wanted to be able to stick the ‘tongue’ in easily, so I opted out of the fondant plan. Oscar’s mouth goes all the way across his face, so make it big.

Now for the tongue I pulled the sticks out of Trader Joe’s organic lollipops. They are nice and small and the perfect size. Stick the ’stick-less’ lolli in his mouth and there you go!

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