Night-Owl Cupcake Cake

I am DYING over this cupcake cake. Yes, please!

One look at this fantastic creation from familyfun.go.com and your guests will have major owl envy.

To add more luster to his “feathers”, just add some shredded coconut. Love it!

Here’s all that you need:

Ingredients

• cupcakes
• 16-ounce can plus ½ cup of vanilla frosting
• green food coloring
• blue food coloring
• purple food coloring
• finely chopped sweetened coconut
• chocolate sprinkles

• chocolate wafer cookies
• jellyrings
• Junior Mints
• mini chocolate chips
• circus peanuts
• M&M’s
• pretzel rods

Instructions

1. You’ll need a 16-ounce can plus ½ cup of vanilla frosting. Spoon ½ cup into a ziplock bag (snip off a corner for piping), tint 1 cup with green food coloring, and reserve the rest.
2. From 2 cups fi nely chopped sweetened coconut, tint ½ cup blue, ½ cup purple, and reserve the rest.
3. Frost 10 cupcakes green and 8 white. Roll the edges of two of the white cupcakes in chocolate sprinkles.
4. Arrange the Mama Owl as shown at right. Use a serrated knife to halve 5 chocolate wafer cookies (we used Famous Chocolate Wafers) for the wings and trim the sides from another cookie for the brows. Make each eye from a whole cookie, piped-on frosting, a jelly ring and a Junior Mint. Sprinkle the white coconut over the chest and scatter with mini chocolate chips. Add pretzel-rod branches and trimmed circus peanuts for the beak and talons, as shown above.
5. Make each owlet’s wings and beak with the same ingredients used for the Mama Owl. Add colored coconut and chocolate chips for the chest, smaller cookie pieces for the brows. Use jelly rings and brown M&M’s for the eyes.