Me want cookie! Me want cupcake too!
I have seen a few versions of the cookie monster cupcake, but this picture made me laugh (look at the cookie monsters at the bottom!) The cookie monster cupcakes are a fairly easy and entertaining to make! There are a lot of recipes out there, but this was one of my favorites.
These would be great for kids birthday parties, family celebrations and may even make great baby shower cupcakes! Have fun being creative!
This is a basic vanilla cupcake recipe, but if you want to make things easier you can also use a packaged cake mix. Also, no reason to use vanilla, you can use any flavor you like as the frosting will completely cover the top of the cupcake.
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 12-cup muffin/cupcake pan or line with paper baking cups.
In a large bowl, mix butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Stir in the eggs, one at a time, blending well after each one. Stir in the vanilla and flour just until mixed. Spoon the batter into the prepared cups, dividing evenly.
Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 18 to 20 minutes. Cool in the pan set over a wire rack. When cool, arrange the cupcakes on a serving platter.
After the cupcakes have cooled, you’re ready for the fun part! Let’s decorate!!
There are a variety of ways to create the blue fur of the Cookie Monster on a cupcake. You can use blue sanding sugar, blue frosting, blue sprinkles, and/or coconut flakes tinted blue (my favorite way). Any craft store with a cake and candy aisle will have all that you need to get the right color blue. Tip: use the brightest blue you can find. Paste food coloring works best to get the richest, deepest colors. It works just like regular food coloring drops. You just add as much as you need to white frosting.
Frost each cupcake with blue frosting. Then, add the sprinkles, sanding sugar, or coconut.
Next the mouth – make a small horizontal slit in the top of the cupcake for the cookie. Stick 1/2 of a chocolate chip cookie in it just like Cookie Monster would eat. Now add some googley eyes. You can use mini white marshmallows or white chocolate rounds (whatever you can find that look like eyes) and a chocolate chip for the pupil.
Lastly, put the cupcakes on a fun designed tray or serving platter. Enjoy like the cookie monster would!
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WoW. This is so cute. I think this is perfect for kids birthday parties. Thanks for sharing this.
Oh. It’s so cute. My little sister and brother will surely love this when I make some for them. Thanks for sharing this.
These look absolutely cute! Perfect for the kids on their birthday.
These look good and i mean no offense, but does no one else see the irony that these are COOKIE monster CUPCAKES!!!???
A recipe and photos of AMAZING Cookie Monster cupcakes!
Yummy……Absolutely great….
My young bro will like it for his birthday
This is fantastic! I will try it
So cute! I love Cookie Monster!
its ridiculous food. don’t go too crazy cathy
I can’t wait to make these cute cupcakes for a child’s birthday!
nice
Fun Cookie Monster Cupcake Recipe – awesome recipe book here – thank youy
Awesome project! I’m making these for a kid’s birthday party. Great idea
Aww, nice! I’m gonna make these for my cousin’s little ones, they’ll LOVE them!
Love them! I will try to make these for my son, he loves Cookie Monster.
ADORABLE! I totally look like that when I eat cookies. YUM!
Oh to the Em to the Gee!! This is adorkable! Aw! I love it!
Very cute….will have to make these!!
So cute, want to eat.
Have just made these tonight for my daughter’s 2nd Birthday… can’t wait to see her face when she sees these!
Yay! How fun!! I would love to see your pictures!!
I will try and post pictures this week once I download them to my computer! Overall they turned out great! I would have made the icing a bit darker blue. I used mini chips ahoy which were perfect instead of breaking cookies.
I did this a while ago (before i saw this) and they were really good! I, at first, used one blue frosting, it was apparently meant for cookies and looked like toothpaste, had to find another. Point of the story, don’t use cookie icing
WOW this is totally amazing…… i am going to eat it while wearing my favorite cooks monster shirt
so cute at a bakery close by i buy elmo cupcakes for my son cuz elmos his favorite and theres the exact same cookie monster cupcakes there also i was wondering can u put up the recipe for elmo too thanx
Love this idea! I’m making these for my hubby for his B-day this weekend! Everyone else on here seems to be making these for children, but my hubby is a big kid so I think it will work out. lol
Mine is too
Have fun!