
Top each cupcake with 2 candy eyes and 1 mini chocolate chip cookie. Cut out the center of each cupcake, fill with cookie crumbs, and top with cupcake piece you removed. Cookie Monster Cupcakes Once the cupcakes are cooled, cover them in the blue butter frosting. Ensure that you let your cupcakes cool completely on a wire rack before frosting or decorating them. You could make vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, or a combination of these. Divide frosting into five separate small bowls. Use your favorite cupcake recipe and bake as many as youd like to decorate as Cookie Monster. Cool 10 minutes remove from pans to cooling racks. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes. To make the cupcake filling, combine crushed mini chocolate chip cookies with 4 tablespoons of milk. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.Scoop into a piping bag or a ziplock bag with the corner cut off. Stir in 4 drops of blue coloring, adding more until the correct Cookie Monster color is achieved. Once it's all been added, beat on medium-high for 2 minutes. Beat together butter, vanilla and whipping cream on medium-low speed until smooth and combined. While cupcakes cool, make the frosting.Bake cupcakes for 15 minutes, or until tops spring back when touched lightly in the center. Place an Oreo cookie in the bottom of each liner. Line 24 cupcake tins with cupcake liners.Prepare cake mix according to package instructions. Add the chocolate chips and mix with a spatula. Whisk all the cupcake ingredients together, leaving out the chocolate chips. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. To make the monster cookie cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350F.Note: These are best eaten shortly after they are decorated because the cookies do get a little chewy as they sit.These Cookie Monster Cupcakes are an adorable treat the whole family will love. There’s nothing more all-American than a cookie, and these 21 recipes are the perfect sweet treats for sharing (or not, no judgment) this 4th of July. Cookie Monster Cupcakes Ingredients 1 cup unsalted sweet cream butter, softened 2 1/2 cups powder sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 3-5 tablespoons heavy whipping.Place two candy eyeballs ( they don't have to perfectly align because Cookie Monster has crazy eyes) and fill the mouth with Cookie Crisp cereal or mini Chips Ahoy cookies.Keep a paper towel nearby to periodically wipe the tip clean, so it doesn't clog. Using a grass piping tip, pipe the frosting in an erratic pattern to resemble Cookie Monster's wild furry look.Using a sharp, small paring knife, cut a large half-circle shape out of the top of the cupcake (see photos above) for Cookie Monster's mouth.Cool on a wire rack until the cupcakes are room temperature.Bake at 400 degrees for the first 5 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 350 degrees for the remaining cooking time.
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Prepare the Icing: In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the butter on medium-high speed with the paddle attachment until fluffy, or about 5 minutes.
