Manic Mama Miles: Elmo Cupcakes

Well you can't have an Elmo Carnival without Elmo cupcakes. These were super easy to make & pretty delicious.

The cupcakes are cream cheese icing with red food coloring. I found the great red & white striped cupcake holders at Michaels.

I saw some cute ideas on Pinterest for how to do Elmo eyes, but easy won this battle when I saw these Wilton candy eyeballs at Walmart. Uh, yes please.

After adding in the candy eyes, I needed something orange for the nose. How can you always make cupcakes even more delicious? Add candy of course. As you can see on my cupcake page, I love adding mini M&Ms, tootsie rolls, airheads, etc. to cupcakes. And what candy is delicious & orange? Hello Reese's pieces.

As you can see with my owl cupcakes from Addy's "Look Whoo is 1" birthday party, I also have a tendency of adding oreos to cupcakes. : ) An oreo cookie broken in half was the perfect Elmo smile.