Beach Cupcakes
These Beach Cupcakes are fun to make during the summer for birthday parties, pool parties, any summer party, and kids can help assemble them! Made with your favorite cupcake flavor, ocean blue frosting, candy beach towels, crushed graham cracker sand, cute little Teddy Grahams and colorful paper umbrellas.
Servings: 18 cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 box of white or yellow cake mix plus the ingredients on the box
- 1 can vanilla frosting
- 4 sheets graham crackers
- 1/2 cup Teddy Grahams
- 1/4 cup Life Saver gummies
- 2 candy strips any color, cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces
- paper cocktail umbrellas
- blue food coloring gel
Instructions
- Prepare cake mix according to box instructions as you would to make cupcakes. I like to add more batter to each cupcake divot, yielding to 18 cupcakes instead of 24. Bake according to box and allow to cool completely.
- In the meantime, in a medium bowl, mix together the frosting and add a few drops of blue food coloring gel until you reach your desired shade of blue- I usually only put 2-3 drops.
- To make the graham cracker crumbs, place the graham cracker sheets in a large heavy duty ziplock bag and roll with a rolling pin. Roll to crush into crumbs to make the sand.
- Frost the cooled cupcakes with a frosting knife or pipe the frosting on with a pastry bag. Sprinkle half of the cupcakes with the graham crackers to make the sand to make a beach look.
- Decorate the cupcakes as you wish with the paper umbrellas, candy strip pieces for the towel, Life Saver gummies, and Teddy Grahams. I like to add a "towel" to the sand and a Teddy Graham on top, with a gummy Life Saver on the side. Get creative and feel free to decorate them differently for fun! Serve and enjoy!