How to Make Angry Birds Cupcakes

Most Popular on BlogHer

Share This Post
Pin It
27
15
Sparkle (
2
)

For the past couple of months, I've been a little angry with Angry Birds.

It started when I realized that my 6-year-old was better at the game than I was. Which was a little embarrassing but whatever. I'm not really into games anyway.

But then my son introduced the game to my husband.

And he had an ally.

And for weeks, I would notice that my phone was missing and go searching for it ... only to find my son huddled up with my husband, comparing bird slinging strategy.

And anyone who knows me knows not to mess with my phone. I like to get my text on.

So it was super annoying.

Thankfully, they sort of came out of that phase.

But then this morning, my son discovered that Angry Birds Seasons updated to a Valentines Day version.

So whatever.

If you can't beat them, make cupcakes about them.

Pretty sure that's how the saying goes.

The body for the birds and the pigs can be made a number of ways -- fondant, cake balls -- but I used doughnut holes covered in red and green candy melts. Way easier than making cake balls and yummier than fondant.

Who eats fondant? Gross.

For the feathers on top of the birds head, I molded Laffy Taffy into the shape and dipped it in my red candy melts. The beak is a triangle cut from yellow Laffy Taffy and the belly is a white Air Head cut in a circle with the bottom trimmed off. The candy eyes can be purchased very inexpensively online, and I piped the eyebrows with black frosting.

For the pig's ears, I molded Laffy Taffy into shape and dipped them in the same candy melts I used for the body. I used a black food writer to fill in the middle. The nose is a green M&M with two dots drawn with black food writer, and the eyes are the same ones I used on the bird. The crown was cut from a yellow Laffy Taffy, and the mouth is a small half-circle cut from a green Laffy Taffy.

I attached everything to the bodies using melted candy melts.

I'm sure that there are lots of other ways to make these, I just used what worked best for me and was easily accessible. So feel free to substitute other candies if you see something you'd rather use.

Now go make these and have an Angry Birds party, you crazy kids!

P.S. I definitely did not eat eleven Laffy Taffy during the making of these cupcakes.

P.P.S. If you don't know what Angry Birds is, I'm sorry for confusing you.

Kristan (Cookbook Queen)

kkmorello 5 pts

What a great idea--those are incredibly cool for Angry Bird lovers. I'm going to try to keep this post for my husband's birthday way out in October, by which time he'll, no doubt, be playing a new Halloween version.

Love the green/red candy melt idea. I would've gone for fondant & never thought of that. Thanks!

share flag

spam
offensive
disagree
off topic

Lori Randall Stradtman 5 pts

These look fantastic!! Thanks so much for indulging my nerdy need for a culinary Angry Birds fix! :)

Lori

Lori Randall Stradtman also blogs at Social Media Design ( http://www.social-media-design.com/ ).

Genie Gratto 10 pts

There is no way I would ever actually do this...but this is awesome. And hilarious. I love it!

--- Genie, The Inadvertent Gardener ( http://www.theinadvertentgardener.com )

pinkbanana 5 pts

these are so cute...did your son enjoy them? I bet he did maybe you can put them in sticks and wrap them for souvenirs for birthdays... or try out other designs with taffys...

DVDs ( http://www.confessionsofamovieaddict.com/ )
Movie reviews ( http://confessionsofamovieaddict.com/category/dvd-... )
top 100 movies ( http://confessionsofamovieaddict.com/top-100-movie... )
top 100 movies of all time ( http://confessionsofamovieaddict.com/top-100-movie... )
wedding ideas ( http://www.confessionsofapoorbride.com/ )
wedding tips ( http://www.confessionsofapoorbride.com/weddingplan... )

fabfrugalfoodie 5 pts

I'm always most impressed when creations like this are actually EDIBLE! Kudos.

Fabulously frugal recipes - for foodies. ( http://www.fabfrugalfood.com/ )

trigirl13 5 pts

I love this! I do love how easy it is to make eye catching decorations with fondant, but really, it's so unappealing to eat. So, now I have a new pliable and delicious food to work with (that i would most definitely *not* (wink, wink) eat eleven of. Thanks for sharing!

-julie

http://tri-ingtobeathletic.blogspot.com

Maggiezcrew 5 pts

GENIUS!!
I started making my own fondant, and do all 4 of my kids birthday cakes each year - they tell me the theme - I 'create'
This year my 7 year old wants a Ben10 cake...figured, nows a good time as any to teach myself how to make gumpaste. But after seeing this!!! I'm going to try Laffy Taffy!! :) MUCH easier

sassymonkey 18 pts

I do not have the patience to make these but I *love* them.

Contributing Editor Karen Ballum also blogs at Sassymonkey ( http://sassymonkey.ca ) and Sassymonkey Reads ( http://sassymonkeyreads.ca ).

Melissa Ford 5 pts

Such cute cupcakes. I've been putting off playing this game since I keep hearing the word addictive tied to it, but since we're going to the Apple store today, there's no harm in trying it out...

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).