One of my best girl friends from college had her baby shower this past weekend, and I was so excited to have the opportunity to make the dessert! The theme was “Owls” and was perfect being in the fall season. I decided on Mama Owl Cupcakes and Acorn cookies because of the presentation. For the chocolate cupcakes I used Martha Stewarts, “Chocolate Cupcakes” recipe.
For the vanilla cupcakes I utilized Betty Crocker Vanilla cake box for time purposes, and Betty Crocker’s Vanilla Whipped Frosting. I had purchased some neon food coloring, and was able to blend some blues and green to reach the desired blue hue. Here’s a list of topping materials I bought to decorate the Mama Owl:
- Circus Peanuts- cut to mold her beak and talons
- Junior Mints- for the pupil of her eyes
- Jelly Rings- for her eye color
- Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers- these were super hard to find since they are a seasonal item. The only place I could locate them was at Schnucks grocery store. These were cut for eyebrows and layered for wing depth
- Sweetened coconut (1 cup used for texturized front of her chest)
- Mini chocolate chips- used to give speckled chest
- Long Pretzel Rods for tree branches at the end of her feet
- White board to place her on-purchased from Hy-Vee bakery
- 3 plastic cupcake containers to transport cupcakes, highly recommended to assemble at location J
The cupcakes were a big hit, and the Acorn cookies were also really popular. Ingredient wise the Acorn cookies were really simple to assemble. There are close to 70 mini Nutter Butter cookies in a package, so make sure to allocate back some time back because you will have to do it in batches.
Acorn Cookies:
- Package of mini Nutter Butter cookies
- Dark Chocolate Hershey Kisses
- Caramel Hershey Kisses
- Mini chocolate chips
- Almond Bark (melted) to “glue” the cookies, kisses and mini chocolate chip together
Enjoy!
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