Crocodiles

Ingredients

4 vanilla cupcakes baked in blue liners
1 cup canned vanilla frosting
Black and neon blue food coloring
1/3 cup each blue and green decorating sugar
4 peanut butter sandwich cookies
8 pieces green cereal O's

Directions

1. Tint 2 tablespoons of the vanilla frosting black with the food coloring. Spoon the black frosting into a ziplock bag, press out the excess air, seal, and set aside. Spoon 1/4 cup of the vanilla frosting into a ziplock bag, press out the excess air, seal, and set aside. Tint the remaining vanilla frosting blue with the food coloring.

2. Place the blue sugar in a small shallow bowl. Spread the blue frosting on top of the cupcakes. Roll the edge of the cupcakes in the sugar.

3. For the croc heads, trim the edges of the cookies with a serrated knife to from a long V-shape. Place the green sugar in a shallow bowl. Snip a small (1/8-inch) corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting and pipe on top of the trimmed cookies to cover; spread smooth. Press the frosted side of the cookies into the green sugar and cover completely. Attach the sugared cookies to the frosted cupcakes, sugar side up, allowing one third of the cookie to hang over the edge.

4. For the eyes, trim the bottom edge of the green cereal pieces. Pipe 2 dots of vanilla frosting at the back of the head and attach the trimmed pieces of cereal, cut side down. Pipe teeth on the outer edges of the heads with the remaining vanilla frosting in the bag, starting at the top edge of the cookie and using the squeeze-release-pull technique. to make sharp teeth. Snip a small (1/8 inch) corner from the bag with the black frosting and pipe dots to make the nostrils and eyes.

Source: What's New Cupcake?