These Sesame Street Cupcakes, featuring some familiar faces, will be a hit at your child’s next birthday party!
Normally I’d walk you through how to bake cupcakes but this time we’re going to focus on decorating. After all, it’s the star of the show this time around!
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What We Love About This Recipe
- 45 Minute Dessert: These adorable cupcakes will be ready in 45 minutes.
- Easy Ingredients: All found in pantry.
- Family Friendly: The kids are going to absolutely LOVE these!
- Adaptable: Can make it low-carb, or lower sugar!
- Fun Project: Once you get the hang of it, these cupcakes are so fun to make! Your kids might even want to help!
Ingredient Notes
- Red, yellow, blue and green food coloring: To create the characters’ unique colors.
- White frosting: You’ll use the food coloring to create different colors from the white icing.
- Deco eyes: Cute little edible eyes work best.
- Orange jelly beans: To create Elmo’s nose.
- Candy corn: Create Big Bird’s beak with these.
- Mini chocolate chip cookies: For the Cookie Monster of course.
Variations and Substitutions
- If you’re up to it, try making each character a different flavor of cake!
- If you’re not artistic at all, try using edible cupcake toppers!
How to Make Sesame Street Cupcakes
These are the basic steps for making Sesame Street Cupcakes. Please refer to the recipe card below for more detailed instructions.
STEP 1: Bake
Bake cupcakes following the directions on the box, cool completely.
STEP 2: Cookie Monster
Use black gel icing to draw on mouth. Use tip 233 to pipe blue fur on remainder of cupcake from the mouth outward as shown. Attach eyes and place mini chocolate chip cookie in mouth.
STEP 3: Elmo
Use black gel icing to draw on mouth, just like we did for Cookie Monster. Use tip 233 to pipe red fur on remainder of cupcake from the mouth out as shown. Attach eyes and place an orange jelly bean for the nose
STEP 4: Oscar the Grouch
Use black gel icing to draw on mouth. Use tip 233 to pipe green fur on remainder of cupcake from the mouth out as shown. Attach eyes and use black gel icing to create eyebrows.
STEP 5: Big Bird
Use tip 70 to pipe yellow feathers over entire cupcake – start at the center and work your way out to the edge, repeat process all the way around. Press in 2 candy corn, point up, to form the beak. Attach eyes and a craft feather.
Optional: Use a blue edible marker to create eyelids on deco eyes!
Prep and Storage Tips
HOW TO MAKE THIS RECIPE AHEAD OF TIME
You can make the cupcakes up to 2 days ahead of time before they start to dry out.
HOW TO STORE CHARACTER CUPCAKES
Store in an airtight container to prevent air from drying them out. Better yet, refrigerate them! They’ll be good for about 1 week.
HOW TO FREEZE THIS RECIPE
Freeze your character cupcakes for up to three months in an airtight container.
Frequently Asked Questions
Make sure to use a gluten free cake mix. Also, check to make sure that your food coloring is gluten free!
Sure! Just make sure you grab the corresponding food coloring.
Absolutely! This recipe is super easy to double or half!
Expert Tips for Making This Recipe
- Liners: Sesame Street cupcake liners are the perfect addition!
- Sprinkles: Add some sprinkles that correspond to the character’s colors!
- Short cut tip: Feel free to add as many tips as you need in this section
- Variation: If you’re feeling like it, divide the cupcake batter before you bake and add food coloring that corresponds with each character!
- Alternate cooking method tip: Feel free to add as many tips as you need in this section
What to Serve with Sesame Street Cupcakes
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Sesame Street Cupcakes
Equipment
- Wilton Deluxe Cake Decorating Kit with Piping Tips and Pastry Bags, 46-Piece
Ingredients
- 1 white cake mix, Prepared per directions
- food coloring, Red, yellow, blue, and green
- White frosting
- Black gel icing
- Deco eyes
- Orange jelly beans
- Candy corn
- Mini chocolate chip cookies
Instructions
- Bake cupcakes per recipe directions, cool completely.
- Elmo:
- Use black gel icing to draw on mouth
- Use tip 233 to pipe red fur on remainder of cupcake from the mouth out as shown
- Attach eyes and orange jelly bean for the nose
- Cookie Monster:
- Use black gel icing to draw on mouth
- Use tip 233 to pipe blue fur on remainder of cupcake from the mouth outward as shown
- Attach eyes and place mini chocolate chip cookie in mouth
- Oscar:
- Use black gel icing to draw on mouth
- Use tip 233 to pipe green fur on remainder of cupcake from the mouth out as shown
- Attach eyes and use black gel icing to create eyebrows
- Big Bird:
- Use tip 70 to pipe yellow feathers over entire cupcake – start at the center and work your way out to the edge, repeat process all the way around
- Press in 2 candy corn, point up, to form the beak
- Use a blue edible marker (if desired) to create eyelids on deco eyes
- Attach eyes and a craft feather
Expert Tips
- This Recipe Can be Doubled: A great recipe for a crowd. Simply increase the ingredients proportionately and make following the directions on the recipe card.
- LINERS: Character cupcake liners for Sesame Street characters.
- TOPPERS The addition of these toppers really make these cupcakes special.
- VARIATION: Feel free to make several different flavors of cupcakes for each character.
- QUICK FIX: If you really are not artistic, use this quick cheat, edible Sesame Street characters.
I remember making these for my grandson years ago. They are super cute. My own kids loved watching that show.