Easy Little Pandas
By Eat More Chocolate Team Cake & Cupcakes Birthday, Everyday Baking
April 15, 2015
Get creative with these cute panda cupcakes!
Directions
Chocolate Cupcakes
Fill mini cupcake tray with cupcake liners.
In a large bowl, mix dry ingredients together with a wire whisk.
Add eggs, oil, vanilla and milk and mix until combined.
Fill cupcake liners about 3/4 full.
To decorate
First frost your cupcakes. Use a decorator bag with Ateco Tip #807 and you can whiz right through this part.
Pipe a small mound of frosting on top. You don’t need to cover the cupcake completely.
Because you will be pressing it into a bowl of sanding sugar to cover all the frosting. And when you do, the frosting will spread out and cover most of the top.
Then you can start making panda faces. Insert a chocolate chip sideways and towards the bottom for a nose. Then press two chips pointed side down into the frosting to start on the eyes and two more in position for the ears.
If you want to add mouths, try black or chocolate jimmies and press them into the frosting.
Ingredients
To decorate, you’ll need:
Frosting (I used the one from this post)
Decorator bag and Ateco tip 807 (or just use a ziploc bac and cut an end off)
Chocolate Chips (I used Ghiradelli dark chocolate chips for their size)
Jimmies (Chocolate or black and you could also just leave them off)