Sesame Street Cupcake Making

These Sesame Street themed birthday party is giving this mamma a run for her crafting! My next ambitious ordeal is making the famous Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch in delicious cupcake form. For this project I needed two boxes and cake mix, ingredients for the cake mix, a ginormous container of ready made frosting, frosting coloring gels, pastry bags and tips, and ingredients for the faces of the characters.

First came Elmo, the most famous of all that my kiddos are obsessed with. He consisted of lemon cake, red furry monster frosting, an oreo cookie mouth, M&M nose, and two candy eyeballs. He was delicious!

Big Bird was used with a petal frosting tip to look like a big old yellow bird, and his beak was candy corn (thank goodness for Halloween candy) and more candy eyeballs. 

Oscar, the Grouchy little fellow was messy green frosting, devils food cake, an Oreo cookie mouth (sticking out his tongue) candy eyes with his famous brown bushy eyebrows. 

  By the time I got to Cookie Monster I was fresh out of eyeballs and thanks to Halloween season, every grocery store in a 10 mile radius was also out of them. After an epic meltdown and a run to McDonald's drive thru, I ran over to Michael's Craft store and luckily they had one box left! This blue cookie fiend was devils food chocolate cake, blue furry monster frosting, chips ahoy cookie, and those hard to find candy eyeballs. These were a big hit at the party! Check back to see how I crafted some decorations for the party.