This Elmo and Friends birthday setup was for my nephew's 2nd birthday, and it was such a hit! I had a lot of fun coming up with this little design. I knew that we were doing a Sesame Street theme, but I had a hard time coming up with exactly what I wanted to do, and that is when the wonderful use of Google images saved the day. Whenever you are stuck on what you want to do ... just google it. There are so many creative people out there that upload all of their photos and they are great to use to get your creative juices flowing.
The prep area...can you notice Rikki Tikki getting in on some of the action?
The fun thing with cupcakes is experimenting with candy to put on top. For Big Bird I used candy corn for his beak; another idea is to use thin pieces of red or black licorice for mouths and hair. For the characters eyes I made two small dollops of white icing and used upside down chocolate chips for the black parts.
For the main part of the display, you can combine cupcakes to make Elmo's face. I used icing that was dipped into red sugar (or orange for the nose and white for the eyes) and decorated as needed. This project took a while, but once the kids saw it and began to chow down it was SO worth it :)
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