by TerriRexson
These reptile eye cupcakes work well for a variety of party themes. I first made them when my older son was crazy about dinosaurs. My boys have since got interested in knights and castles so they became dragon eye cupcakes.
And now my boys are crazy about snakes and reptiles in general. So they're snake eye cupcakes.
What ever kind of reptilian creature your kids are into, these cupcakes look great and are really simple to make. They can easily be adapted to make reptile eye cake pops too.
 Snake Eye Cupcalkes |
These reptile eye cupcakes are very easy to make and look very striking. Kids love them and they are simple to make.
The work well for various party themes:
Bake or Buy Cupcakes
Use your favorite white or chocolate cake recipe or mix to make 12 cupcakes or 24 mini cupcakes or enough for your guests. Mini cupcakes are best because then you can give each guest a pair of snake eyes.
Make the Fondant Eyes
Roll out the green fondant (use a fondant rolling pin and mat and dust with confectioners sugar for the best results as it can get sticky.) Other colors like red work well too for the main eye color.
Cut circles of fondant to fit on top of the cupcakes - you could completely cover the topic of the cupcake if you like.
Add smaller circles of yellow fondant and black fondant pupils - I shaped those by hand.
And make green fondant eye ridges and add them on.
Stick the Eyes to the Cupcakes
Spread a little apricot jelly on the top of each cupcake and stick the eyes on top. You can use any flavor of jelly or jam that you have around but apricot is traditional (I had a Saturday job in a bakery decorating cakes as a teenager) because it's sweet without being overpowering.
Kids would probably appreciate a nice dollop of bright red jelly as they bite into the snake eyes though!
It's more fun if kids can have a pair of snake eyes each. Or dragon or dinosaur eyes! Use a mini cupcake or muffin pan to bake your cupcakes and they'll be able to have two cupcakes each without giving them too much sugar!
You can easily adapt these snake eye cupcake to become cakepops. Just cover your cake pops with green fondant and add the other fondant pieces on top. You'll probably want to make a bigger eye ridge.
I always use ready to use fondant for kids party cupcakes. It's quick and easy. You don't have to stick to green for the main color for your snake eye cupcakes. Red works well for snakes and dragons. And brown is a good color for snakes, dinosaurs and other reptiles.
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Did you like the Snake Eye Cupcakes?
Oh how cool, love it and so will my snake loving daughter. Plus she loves art, great cupcakes :)
Here I am, the cupcake fan! :) Love this idea with snake eye. I am child within my soul. :)
Terri these cupcakes are very attractive. I'd just serve them to grown ups and let them assume that they're just an abstract design. I live by the ocean and the blues would fit in perfectly. Of course I could have some fun and tell them what they are! Great idea.