Back to School Chalkboard Cupcakes
Get creative and celebrate a new school year with these super-cute chalkboard cupcakes!
Back to School Chalkboard Cupcakes
Want to start the new school year off on the right foot with your child’s new teacher? Bring them cupcakes!!
We love to treat our teachers and office staff to baked goods throughout the year, and these chalkboard cupcakes are not only adorable, but they are perfect for back to school.
Plus, kids will have a blast making them and it might help get them excited about going back to school.
Back to School Chalkboard Cupcakes Ingredients
- 12 cupcakes, prepared and unfrosted
- 1 can white frosting
- 1 can chocolate frosting
- 1 pkg. candy cigarettes
- Red gumdrops
- Chocolate covered sunflower seeds, green
- Black food coloring
(Makes 1 dozen cupcakes)
Directions
You can use any cupcakes to make this recipe, whether store-bought or homemade. To save time, we used a box mix.
Using the black gel food coloring, darken the chocolate frosting until it is a rich shade of black. Add food coloring one drop at a time to avoid using more than necessary. Frost tops of cupcakes completely with black frosting.
Scoop white frosting into a piping bag and cut a small piece off the corner. You can also use a detail frosting tip with your piping bag to write letters, numbers, words, or math problems on each cupcake.
Break the candy cigarettes in half to resemble chalk and lay one piece on each cupcake.
Cut a tiny hole in the top of each gumdrop and insert a green sunflower seed for the leaf and set one on each chalkboard cupcake.
(Note: if you have trouble finding green chocolate covered sunflower seeds in the store, you can also create your own with green melting chocolate).
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Ingredients
- 12 cupcakes, prepared and unfrosted
- 1 can white frosting
- 1 can chocolate frosting
- 1 pkg. candy cigarettes
- Red gumdrops
- Chocolate covered sunflower seeds, green
- Black food coloring
Instructions
- You can use any cupcakes to make this recipe, whether store-bought or homemade. To save time, we used a box mix.
- Using the black gel food coloring, darken the chocolate frosting until it is a rich shade of black. Add food coloring one drop at a time to avoid using more than necessary.
- Scoop white frosting into a piping bag and cut a small piece off the corner. You can also use a detail frosting tip with your piping bag to write letters, numbers, words, or math problems on each cupcake.
- Break the candy cigarettes in half to resemble chalk and lay one piece on each cupcake.
- Cut a tiny hole in the top of each gumdrop and insert a green sunflower seed for the leaf and set one on each chalkboard cupcake.
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