July Cupcake

from Parents Magazine

July Cupcake
Yield: 16 cupcakes

Ingredients

  • 1 can (16 ounces) plus 1 cup vanilla frosting
  • 16 cupcakes
  • 16 mini cupcakes
  • Red star sprinkles
  • white star sprinkles
  • blue star sprinkles
  • Red nonpareils
  • white nonpareils
  • blue nonpareils
  • Red fruit leather, cut into 16 3-inch pieces
  • Twizzlers Pull-n-Peel red licorice, cut into 16 2-inch pieces

Make It

1. Frost cupcakes. Roll edges of larger cupcakes in star sprinkles. Roll edges of mini cupcakes in nonpareils. Wrap a piece of fruit leather around one end of each licorice bundle. Separate the licorice pieces at other end. Insert a bundle into center of each mini cupcake. Stack mini cupcakes on top of larger cupcakes.

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