Hippos

Ingredients

4 vanilla cupcakes in blue liners
1/3 cup blue decorating sugar
1 cup canned vanilla frosting
Neon blue food coloring
4 peanut butter sandwich cookies
8 mini chocolate chips
16 pieces orange cereal O's

Directions

1. Place the blue sugar in a small shallow bowl.

2. Spoon the 2 tablespoons of the vanilla frosting into a small ziplock bag, press out the excess air, seal, and set aside. Tint the remaining vanilla frosting blue with the food coloring. Spread the blue frosting on top of the cupcakes and smooth. Roll the edge of the cupcakes in the sugar.

3. For the hippo heads, press a cookie into the frosting of each cupcake, allowing one third of the cookie to hang over the edge. Snip a small (1/8 inch) corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting. Pipe dots of the frosting onto the peanut butter cookie for the eyes, nostrils and ears. Attach the chocolate chips, flat side up, to the frosting to make the eyes and attach the cereal pieces to make the ears and nose.

Source: What's New Cupcake?