Alligator Cupcakes

This picture didn't turn out great, but these cupcakes were really cute! Fun and reasonably easy. Remember to refer to the picture if you don't understand what it's going to look like. Here is how...

INGREDIENTS:

12 baked cupcakes

12 nutter butter cookies

24 green fruit loops

1/2 c. green decorating sugar

2 cups frosting

Blue and black food coloring

Small ziploc bag

2 pieces scotch tape

Start by coloring the frosting. Color 2 T. of the frosting black. Split the rest of the frosting into two bowls and color one blue. Set them aside. Take one cookie at a time and cut one end to form the nose of the gator.

Frost the cupcakes with the blue frosting. You don't need much frosting. You only need about 1 T. of frosting for the entire cupcake. Frost the top of the cookie with the white frosting. Cover completely with green decorating sugar. Push the gator into the blue frosting.

Next we'll do the eyes. Take the green froot loops and cut the bottom part off so that it can lay flat on the alligator's head. Push them into the green frosting by the top of the head. Use the black frosting to pipe little dots in the froot loops for the pupils and nostrils.

The teeth are easy, but it takes practice. Don't get discouraged if your first few don't turn out the way you want them to. Reinforce the corner of your ziploc bag with a piece of scotch tape. Flip the bag over and reinforce the other side. Fill the corner with the rest of the white frosting. Snip a small straight line across the tape. The opening should only be the size of the tip of a ball point pen. Along the top of the gators jaw pipe the teeth. The best way to get nice sharp teeth is to squeeze the bag and keep the bag in the same place. Stop squeezing when you have the size of tooth you want and pull away the bag. Do Not pull the bag away while you are still squeezing.