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Back to School Cupcakes
There's no better way to ring in the school year than with this adorable school bus. The cake-like formation is an impressive presentation, while the individual cupcakes make for easy serving - perfect for classroom treats! —Taste of Home Food Styling Team
22 Servings
Prep: 1 hour
Ingredients
22 cupcakes of your choice
2 cans (16 ounces
each
) vanilla frosting
Yellow, black and red paste food coloring
Chocolate wafers, miniature cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies and vanilla wafers
Other paste food coloring of your choice
Coarse sugar
Directions
On a covered cake board, place a row of five cupcakes for top of bus.
Arrange six cupcakes each in the second and third rows. Follow with
a row of five cupcakes.
Tint 2-1/2 cups vanilla frosting yellow; carefully spread over
cupcakes. Spread vanilla frosting over cupcakes as desired for
windows. Place a chocolate wafer on each tire; attach a miniature
sandwich cookie hubcap with frosting.
Tint a small amount of vanilla frosting black and a small amount red;
set aside. Pipe outlines and desired details onto bus with black
frosting.
Place a vanilla wafer in each window. Tint remaining frosting as
desired. Pipe faces on vanilla wafers; pipe hair, hats and shirts as
desired.
Spread red frosting onto cupcakes for stop sign and taillights. Fill
© Taste of Home 2013
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Directions (continued)
in headlights with coarse sugar. Yield: 22 cupcakes.
© Taste of Home 2013