How many of you remember Sesame Street? My goodness it brings back memories. Almost sitting on top of the television I could never be too close! Big bird, The Garbage monster, Elmo and The cookie monster are to name but a few.Colour overload for my little eyes. Phrases like ' me eat cookie' and ' me want cookie' make me realise maybe we were separated at birth.
So today I've decided to blog about baking cookie monster cupcakes. I needed to track down some eyes and blue hair not for myself now for the cookies. I just know half of you were thinking I'd look fab with blue hair. I decided to go with blue butter cream icing and marshmallows for the eyes. I used my usual vanilla cupcake recipe. I started by creaming the butter and sugar together to my neighbours dismay :P. Gradually adding 2 eggs with some vanilla careful not to have a heavy hand with the vanilla lol. Fold in the flour add a bit of cow (milk) and spoon into cases. After 15 minutes the magic should have happened. Nice golden cupcakes yet moist on the inside.
Meanwhile in a separate bowl beating the butter until it becomes a wonderful cream. Approx 5 minutes . Dropping in some blue food dye as you go . Now the fun begins blue goes EVERYWHERE when you restart the whisk.Goggles on and away you go until the colour resembles that of the monster himself. Then pipe this mixture onto the top of the cupcake using a fancy fitting for the bag. Now for the eyes get some small marshmallows and push them in as eyes and use chocolate chips as his pupils. A little bit of icing will stick them on lovely. And no cookie monster is complete without a cookie in his mouth so snap a cookie in two and stick one in his mouth. Eat the other yourself well I did.I felt it was well deserved!
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