Marshmallow Flower Cupcakes

What You'll Need

• frosted cupcakes 
• 1 bag of mini-marshmallows
• scissors
• colored sugar sprinkles 
• sandwich baggie
• & patience!

Instructions

1.  Fill first baggie with desired colored sugar sprinkles. 
2. Cut mini-marshmallows in half diagonally and place into bag. [you can also cut them into thirds, that is how I did the ones above, but it's much less frustrating to do halves.]
3. Shake the baggie until the sticky marshmallow side[s] are covered in the sugar.
4. Carefully [I suggest starting from the inside] place marshmallows in a circle 'spiralling' outwards.

NOTE: if you do multi-colored [like pictured], I suggest doing a large amount of petals [marshmallows] before hand so you don't have to keep making different colors. I also recommend doing a few of one color first, it's much easier to do and less time consuming. [also I personally like the look of the single colored ones better to be honest.]

Cake Bites

Normally I'd post a recipe; but I found theresahelmer's Cake Poppers on deviantART and decided I should just direct you to those instructions because they are soooo much easier. 

Watermelon Cupcakes

Watermelon Cupcakes

Ingredients

1 pkg. regular white cake mix

1 pkg. cherry kool-aid

1/2 c. mini-chocolate chips

1 c. white frosting [store bought or home made]

red & green food coloring

Directions

1. Mix cake mix as directed. Add in cherry kool-aid and a few drops of red food coloring as desired. Gently add in mini-chocolate chips.

2. Put into cupcake tins, filling about 3/4 of the way to the top

3. Bake as directed by the cake mix

4. Allow to cool. Meanwhile, take mix green food dye into frosting until desired shade[s] of green.

5. Frost cupcakes when cooled.

6. [optional] Sprinkle extra mini-chocolate chips on top after frosted OR mix in when mixing frosting

***this is NOT an original recipe***