Baking Hack: Easy DIY Penguin Cupcakes!

We recently threw a baby shower at our Church for a lovely mama-to-be, and she LOVES penguins. So what better way to honour her than with a penguin theme including these super cute penguin cupcakes!

It's really quite simple:

Cupcakes:

• Bake your cupcakes as per your recipe - boxed cake mix works perfectly fine

• Allow the cupcakes to cool

• Spread icing on top of the cupcake (vanilla gives it that snow theme)

• Place shredded coconut in a bowl and then press the icing on the top of the cupcake into the coconut to coat

• Cut a slit near in the top of the cupcake about 2/3 of the way back - this is where the head will sit

Penguins:

• Take an Oreo apart (this is surprisingly harder than it looks. The gluten free Oreos actually work much better in terms of staying intact)

• Cut out a tiny "V" at the top of the icing

• Place two mini chocolate chips for eyes

• Place one mini M&M (either yellow or orange) for the beak

• Break the non-icing side of the Oreo

• Place about half way back pointy side in to the cupcake on either side for wings

and that's it!

Need to see it in action? Checkout this video tutorial:

And enjoy your yummy and cute penguin cupcakes that are sure to impress!

xoxo Chelsea