Making the beach cupcakes

Making the 'sand' for the beach cupcakes, and getting it on the cupcakes, was a lot easier than I thought it would be. Simply grind up some teddy grahams and graham crackers in the food processor. I hesitated before I pushed the button, thinking of the fate of those poor bears. Then I realized I had already shoved a bunch in my mouth, and they were all goners anyway. True story!


Slap some frosting on a cupcake. Don't worry about getting it perfectly even.

Smush the cupcake into the pulverized teddy grahams, and the 'sand' distributes fairly evenly and sticks without a problem.

Seriously, once the sand was on there, it didn't come off. Not even in transit to work the next day. This technique worked really well.

To make the bears' swimsuits, I used candy decorating pens from Wilton. Simply heat the pens up in hot water, and draw on the bears. This step was actually a lot harder than I thought it would be. Those bears are small, and those pens aren't the best at precision decorating. Originally, I had envisioned a beach full of 50 or so decorated bears. I stopped at 12. It was just too time-consuming.

Another funny tidbit: can you read the mug? It's that Maxine character from Hallmark, and she's saying "It's my body, I'll have pie if I want to." Anyone who knows me in real life knows that this is absolutely true. I don't think I've ever said no to pie. Ever.

So that's how I made the beach cupcakes. Sand = easy, swimsuits on teddy grahams = hard.

Tomorrow, making the shark cupcakes. Sharks have never been so tasty!