How To

Design
From the
Kitchen of…
Kathryn,
Kate
&
Chelsey
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Puppy-Dog
 Cupcakes
Have you ever gone to a party where the desserts looked
too cute to eat? To impress your guests, get together a
few common ingredients, follow these simple steps, and
transform ordinary cupcakes into cute puppies.

To complete this creative dessert:

1. Learn how to frost your cupcake like a pro.
2. Add embellishments to create puppy faces.

Time: 30-45 minutes per dozen cupcakes

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Materials

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 Cupcakes
Baked and cooled

Frosting
Flavor and style of your choice
Brought to room temperature
Approximately 1 Tbsp. per cupcake

Spreading Utensil
Frosting spatula (may substitute with a knife)
Decorating Icing

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 Colored black
In a tube with pointed decorating tip

M&M’s or like candies

One brown candy per cupcake
One yellow candy per cupcake

Chocolate medallions
Flat and approximately one inch in diameter
One candy per cupcake

Cookies
Flat oval-shaped cookies
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 (i.e. Nutter Butters, Vienna Fingers or like cookie)
Two cookies per cupcake
Note: If you have chosen a sandwich cookie like either
cookie suggested above, sides of the cookie should be
separated and icing removed creating two cookies from
one.

Optional
Other edible decorations like sprinkles, coconut, etc.

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 Instructions

First, be sure to have a clean, flat, open workspace.

Frosting your Cupcake The goal of frosting your

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cupcake is to neatly spread the frosting to cover the top
of the cupcake.

1. Make sure frosting is at room temperature and stir it

so that it is easier to spread.

2. Place approximately 1 Tbsp. of frosting in the center of

the top of the cupcake using the frosting spatula.

Note: It may help to

3. Gently spread the frosting spread the frosting
from the center of the top of using small circular
motions.
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 the cupcake toward the edge. Try to get the frosting as
close to the paper liner as possible without going over.
4. Hold the spatula (or knife) at a slight angle and
remove any excess frosting to smooth the frosted
cupcake top.

Note: Though frosting

can be intricate, for
the purpose of the
design, it should be
relatively smooth.

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Decorating your Cupcake The goal of decorating your
cupcake is to creatively design a puppy face.

Note: If you have chosen a sandwich cookie, you

need to carefully separate the two cookies.
Without breaking the cookies, gently twist the
cookies apart and remove the icing from the
backs of the cookies. This now provides the two
cookies needed to make the ears.

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1. Attach the first ear. See picture below.

• As though the top of your

cupcake is a clock, place
the narrow oval end of the
cookie at one o’clock. This
end is the top of the
cookie and designates the
top of the puppy’s face.

• Half of the cookie should be balanced on the

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 cupcake and secured with icing.

• The cookie should be tilted 60 degrees away

from you so that the other half of the cookie is hanging
off of the cupcake. This end is the bottom of the
puppy’s ear.

2. Use the other cookie to symmetrically attach the

second ear.
3. Now, move on to making the eyes.

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• Attach the chocolate medallion on the right side of
the face so that the edge of
the circle is in the middle of
the cupcake. The lower half of
the medallion will be in
contact with the frosting and
the upper half will overlap the
cookie.

• To create the Note: If needed, sparingly

left eye, carefully place add frosting to the back of
the yellow M&M between the medallion to adhere to
the right eye and the left the cookie.
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ear.

4. Add the nose by

placing the

chocol
ate
M&M
just
below
the
center
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of the
cupca
ke so
that it
is
below
the
eyes
and
center
ed.

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5. Use the Black Decorating
Icing to finalize the puppy’s
face. (Attach decorating tip if
necessary.)
Warning: Icing may be
runny. Shake and knead the
closed icing tube. Test it on
a paper towel before using
it on your cupcake.

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• Add two tiny dots of black
icing for pupils — one on the
yellow M&M and the other
toward the bottom of the
chocolate medallion.

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•To create half of the
mouth, draw a J-like shape
beginning from the center
of the nose toward the
bottom of the cupcake. To
create the other half of
the mouth, make a
symmetrical shape on the
other side of the face.

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 Congratulations!
Your cupcake should now look like a cute puppy!

Now you use your

imagination and be a bit
more creative!
For instance, add a red candy to
the mouth and coconut to the
face and ears for a panting,
white, fluffy puppy.

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