Owl Cupcakes

 Last weekend when the girlies were over, we made cupcakes.  I had seen a cute way to make owl cupcakes and I knew they would enjoy making them.

I made the cupcakes ahead of time and had picked up a container of frosting at the store to make it easy.

Here's Alaina frosting her cupcakes.  

When we had them frosted, we opened oreo's and used them for the eyes.  We found it wasn't easy to get them open and keep the frosting neat.  You use one side with the frosting on and put two on each cupcake.

The directions said to use brown M&M's for the eyes, and use colored ones for the nose.  However, I couldn't find regular M&M's, even in the little bags at the checkout.  So, I bought peanut ones, but we found they didn't work for eyes.  So here you see Ruby using a little of the chocolate frosting for the center of the eyes.

Here they are, each holding one of their cupcakes.

Here's one of the finished cupcakes. If we had regular M&M's, the nose would be one put in sideways, which makes it look more like an owl.

Here's a pan of them, ready to bring home.  You can see that they didn't decorate them all the same, they just had fun doing what they wanted!