We’ve had our eyes on these little fish cupcakes for a while. Cute, right?
Our version of little fish cupcakes is very similar, except we skipped the special eyes and just went with M&Ms. I’ll show you how we did it right here.
These are the big finish for our pool party food drive birthday party coming up.
The cupcakes: We used our Super Spinach Cupcake batter + 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder + 1/2 cup milk for these practice round cupcakes. Not bad. I love all the spinach in there but they weren’t as moist as cakes we’ve made before. SO, I’ll recommend other good-for-you cake recipes that would go undetected at a birthday party:
Coming up next: How to make frosting without dye. (The M&Ms are still going to be M&Ms but we’ll go with totally natural coloring + my favorite frosting for kids.)
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These are so darn cute!
These are so cute!
Thanks Claire! They’re really fun and very easy to make. Our birthday girl loves helping with this kind of thing and these are perfect for small hands too.
Another really nice, really cute idea was our mini-marshmallow flower cupcakes from last year.
Hi Charity,
These look fabulous! I’m going to test them out this week before an upcoming birthday.
Is the frosting recipe on your site somewhere now or is it still “coming up next”?
Thanks,
Elizabeth
Hi Elizabeth!
These worked really well for the party, which was just yesterday so we’re gearing up with more specifics now. In the meantime, I have some learning to share. The Foodlets low-sugar cream cheese frosting wasn’t great for the M&Ms because it was too wet and the M&Ms were tempted to run a bit. This Homemade Frosting recipe is one we’ll try next time. It’s got the full 3 cups of sugar in it, but at least it’s all fresh ingredients. From 100 Days of Real Food.