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Ingredients
- 2-3 chewy chocolate candies (such as Tootsie Rolls)
- 1 fruit roll (or red/pink chewy candy such as Tootsie Rolls)
- 3 small chocolate candies or sugar pearls or chocolate frosting
- 1/4 cup additional vanilla frosting for decorating
Method
- Add a thin layer of vanilla frosting to the top of the whole cupcake.
- Press or roll out chewy chocolate candies. Using a round cutter that is approximately 2 1/2-inches in diameter, cut a circle. Cut again to make two crescent moons, then to snip the end of the "moon". The shapes will resemble an upside down apostrophe. Reserve remaining candy pieces.
- Place one brown candy piece on frosted cupcake, making sure the points are at the top and facing toward one another.
- Using the extra rolled candy reserved from Step #1, cut two small, tear-drops for ears; set aside.
- Fit a piping bag with a #12 tip. Fill with vanilla frosting. Pipe frosting to make cheeks by applying pressure, heavy, light, heavy. It should look like an upside down heart without a "tail". Place a chocolate candy, the size of a pea, in the center of the piped icing as a nose.
- Using the same piping bag, pipe a small disk, slightly smaller than a dime, in the center of each brown candy piece that was placed on the cupcake in Step #2, brushing the icing disk's bottom against the cheeks.
- Cut a small piece of fruit roll for the tongue. Insert tongue piece below the nose, tucked under the cheeks.
- Place a small chocolate candy (or sugar pearl or chocolate frosting) in the center of each disk for the dog's eyes.
- Place small, tear-drop ears at the point of each brown candy piece, point facing outward.
- For the basic frosting on top of each cupcake, you'll only need enough to lightly coat the top of each cupcake, about 1/4 cup frosting per cupcake. Too much frosting on the cupcake will make it harder to decorate into the puppy face.
