Monkey Cupcakes! (Let me introduce myself...)

So all of my friends have been starting their own blogs lately, and I keep wondering to myself if I should start one as well.  I've come to the decision (obviously as you can see) to go ahead and follow the pack.  Coming up with a subject for my blog took a little bit, but today I had the idea to start one where I can show off all of the different confections that I like to make.

For the past couple of years, I have been experimenting with different cakes, cookies, and cupcakes.  I regret not taking pictures of them all, but I hope to change all of that with this blog.  I plan to start out with different ideas that I come up with to make, as well as recreate things so that I can take pictures of them.  At some point, probably when I run out of ideas, I will gladly take suggestions and try to make what *you* can come up with.

Today, I would like to present to you the monkey cupcakes that I made with my sister-in-law for my niece's 2nd birthday party.  She loves monkeys, so Cassie found a recipe in a magazine for these monkey cupcakes that we followed.  Without further ado...

And the girls of the bunch (my favorites... possibly because I decorated them  :P )

They're super easy to make!  All you need (for 2 dozen cupcakes) is the following:

1 box of cupcake mix (whatever flavor you want, banana would be a great flavor for these!)

1 tub of frosting (either chocolate, peanut butter, or white frosting with brown food dye)

12 Nutter Butter cookies (with the peanut butter scraped out, and the halves cut in half...ears)

24 Vanilla Wafers (1/4 cut off)

48 Candy Buttons (eyes)

Variety pack of gel icing (to decorate with)

Imagination!

Have fun, and I'll see you on my next adventure!  

-Krystina

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