Paw Print Cupcakes

These cupcakes are great for all the kids and animal lovers in your life. Easy to make, adorable to look at and delicious to eat.

Paw Print Cupcakes

Ingredients:
Vanilla or Buttercream Frosting
Coconut Flakes
Peppermint Patties
Chocolate Covered Raisins
Chocolate Cupcakes

Directions:
Bake the cupcakes according to the package directions. Or of course, you can whip them up from scratch if you have enough time.

Using a knife, cover the top of the cupcake with a generous amount of frosting. It needs to be thick enough to hold the chocolate and coconut in place, so make sure the entire top is evenly covered and don’t be stingy.

Press the Peppermint Patty into the icing towards the edge. Press it so it goes all the way through the icing until it hits the cupcake. The icing will hold it in place.

Find three similarly sized chocolate covered raisins and press them into the icing above the peppermint patty.

Fill a small bowl with coconut flakes and make a well in the center. Then holding the cupcake by the bottom, gently press the frosted part of the cupcake into the coconut, rolling it around to cover all the edges. As long as you used enough frosting, the chocolate pieces should stay in place.

If you miss any spots, use a spoon to press some coconut flakes into the frosting. Some of the spots between the toes didn’t quite make it into the coconut, but other than that, it was pretty well covered.