Easy Despicable Me Minion Cupcakes

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We came up with this fun and different way of making Easy Despicable Me Minion Cupcakes using candy pearls from Sweetworks. These cupcakes are SO easy to make and my boys made these all by themselves. Such a fun edible craft that your little Despicable Me and Minion fans will have fun creating!

Super Easy Minion Cupcakes from Despicable Me that the kids can create all by themselves! KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

Minion Candy Cupcakes

Ingredients:

  • Cupcakes of your choice
  • White Frosting
  • Blue and Yellow Candy Pearls
  • Chocolate Cookie Icing (Betty Crocker)
  • Chocolate Jimmies
  • Mini Marshmallows
  • Mini Chocolate Chips

Pearl Candy
Directions:

  1. Start out by frosting the cupcakes using your white frosting.
  2. Poor your candy pearls in a bowl to make it easy for the kids to decorate. My 4 year old had so much fun counting and sorting his candies…Pearl Candy
  3. Line up 3 rows of 6 blue candies starting at the bottom of the cupcake.
  4. Add 2 more blue candies on the tops of the end rows of the blue.
  5. Line up the yellow from one end to the other in that same row.
  6. Line up 3 more rows of 5 with the yellow and the top row using 4.
  7. Add 3 chocolate jimmies on top for the hair.
  8. Cut the tips off of mini marshmallows using kitchen scissors and place them on top for the eyes.
  9. Squeeze on your chocolate icing on the sides and around the marshmallows to look like glasses.
  10. Attach on the mini chocolate chips for pupils and add a mouth using the icing.

That’s it…how easy is that?!

Here are a few more of our other Despicable Me and Minion creations…

Despicable Me Breakfast
Despicable Me Breakfast from KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com
Minion Bento Lunch
Despicable Me Minion Bento from KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com
Despicable Me Fruit Snack
Despicable Me Fruit Snack from KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com
Minion Banana Yogurt Pops
Despicable Me Minion Banana Yogurt Pops from KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com
If you like our Easy Despicable Me Minion Cupcakes…make sure to check out our other Cartoon Fun Food Ideas HERE!

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