Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Monster Cupcakes




24 cupcakes
1 tub white frosting (1/3 colored pink, 1/3 colored a dark color, 1/3 left plain)
Cake Mate decorating gel 1 red 1 black (found by cake decorating supplies)
Oreo cookies
licorice (colored makes it more variable)

Make cupcakes and cool
frost 1/2 with pink rounding up the sides smoothly
frost other 1/2 with the darker color roughly for texture or pipe it on w/ the star
outline the pink with the red gel
cut oreo in half and take off top cookie and place in darker color
squeeze a circle in the bottom center of the oreo cookie
cut licorice to 1 to 1/2 inch strips poke in behind cookie
Pipe white frosting for teeth on the pink inside the gel lines

Pasta Salad w/ green onions and cilantro


1 pkg curly pasta (cooked, drained, rinsed, cooled)
3/4 cup Italian dressing
2 green onion stalks chopped
1 roma tomato chopped
1 can black olives diced
3 Tbsp cilantro chopped

Combine and chill before serving. The longer the ingredients have to blend the better the flavor.