Now I'm labeling this as crafty, but you must know there are much better instructions/pictures/videos to be found. If you stopped here and are too lazy to search further, you should still be able to fashion a monkey from a little cake. One more thing- this is a quickie tutorial, but it gets the point across.
Here goes.
Chocolate cake mix works well as a monkey color. Frost with chocolate, unless you are going for a rare albino monkey look,
but that's just weird.
(Gee whiz, this picture sure looks creepy!) Mix a little chocolate frosting with a bunch of vanilla to get the oddly tinted light brown. Pipe on some hair, because it's cute, and three circles for eyes and the mouth. The next step is to smooth the light brown circles with your spatula, but I found out that I have ZERO spatula smoothing skills. So I wet my finger with a drop of water and patted my circles down. They didn't look that great, but whatever! They still tasted good. Did I mention I had never done this before?
Now you add eyes and ears. I used jumbo chocolate chips (upside down) for the eyes and Junior Mints for the ears. You may have to glue the ears with a little extra frosting. (Notice the surgery to the monkey's right ear?) Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I melted some of the eyes (aka chocolate chips) to pipe on the mouths.
Five hours and 53 cupcakes later I was done. I am forever impressed with the peeps on Cupcake Wars for churning out 1,000 cupcakes in 2 hours. INSANE! If you take a closer look at the pan on the back, right side, you will see some of the monkeys are deaf because I ran out of Junior Mints. I'm sure it wouldn't take anyone else as long as it did me, but it was fun! You should try it.
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6 comments:
This is SO cool Tauna!! Not only were they incredibly cute, but they tasted AWESOME. Too many professional bakeries have a product that is cute to look at, but then the cake is dry and not memorable. Great job!! -Catherine S.
Very cute! LOL about the deaf monkeys. ;-)
So cute! I'm like you--willing to try. But with me, let's just say it's a good thing they taste good. :)
They were SUPER!!!!
Those are so cute..I think it would be cool try.. You come up with some of the cutiest ideas.. you are so creative...
I didn't come up with the idea myself. I looked it up online. Most of the ones I saw used a vanilla wafer for the mouth, but I didn't want to bite through a dry cookie.
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