Ingredients
2/3 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 12-cup muffin/cupcake pan or line with paper baking cups.
In a large bowl, mix butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Stir in the eggs, one at a time, blending well after each one. Stir in the vanilla and flour just until mixed. Spoon the batter into the prepared cups, dividing evenly.
Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 18 to 20 minutes. Cool in the pan set over a wire rack. When cool, arrange the cupcakes on a serving platter.
After the cupcakes have cooled, you’re ready for the fun part! Let’s decorate!!
There are a variety of ways to create the blue fur of the Cookie Monster on a cupcake. You can use blue sanding sugar, blue frosting, blue sprinkles, and/or coconut flakes tinted blue. Any craft store with a cake and candy aisle will have all that you need to get the right color blue. Tip: use the brightest blue you can find. Paste food coloring works best to get the richest, deepest colors. It works just like regular food coloring drops. You just add as much as you need to white frosting.
Frost each cupcake with blue frosting. Then, add the sprinkles, sanding sugar, or coconut.
Next the mouth – make a small horizontal slit in the top of the cupcake for the cookie. Stick 1/2 of a chocolate chip cookie in it just like Cookie Monster would eat. Now add some googley eyes. You can use mini white marshmallows or white chocolate rounds and a chocolate chip for the pupil.
Enjoy like the cookie monster would!
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