Recipes by Sarah Lasry & Kosherstreet.com

Makes 18 cup cakes

This is a great project to get your kids involved with – they will love sorting out the colors and decorating the Elmo faces. If you are making them for Chanukah, I suggest using blue food coloring and adding some candy driedels for the nose. 

Ingredients:

Duncan Hines Cake Mix (I used red velvet for the Elmo cupcakes, but you can use any kind)

For the Butter Cream:

2 1/2 sticks margarine or butter, softened

2 1/2 cups confectioners’  sugar

pinch of salt

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 tbsp. non-dairy whip topping or heavy cream’

12-13  drops red food coloring

For the face:

36 mini brown chocolate lentils or mini chocolate chips

18 large marshmallows, cut in half

18 orange or pink small gumballs or colored chocolate lentils  ( I used Leibers brand mini chocolate lentils)

18 Chocolate sandwich cookies cut into halves

Directions:

Make the cupcakes and allow them to cool completely. As the cupcakes are cooling make your butter-cream frosting.

In a mixer  with the whisk attachment, beat the butter at medium-high speed until smooth, about 20 seconds. Add the confectionery sugar and salt; beat at medium –low speed until most of sugar is moistened about 45 seconds. Scrape down the bowl and beat on medium speed until mixture is fully combined, about 15 seconds, add the vanilla, and cream and the food coloring and beat on medium speed until color has fully incorporated.

To assemble the cup cake:

1. Pipe the red frosting onto the cupcakes  – I used a medium sized flower tip and made many little flowers covering the whole cupcake

2. Once the cupcake is fully frosted, cut the marshmallow in half and stick 1 brown lentil on each sticky side of the marshmallow making the eyeballs ( I found it was more “Elmo-like” to put the lentils slightly askew and close together )

3. Place the uncut side down of the marshmallows into the cream. Then place the orange nose lentil.

4. Cut your sandwich cookies in half , and stick them slightly up in the air where the mouth should be.

What you will need: White cake mix and all its added ingredients – Food Coloring

Make your batter according to instructions on back of box

Divide your cake batter into 4 separate bowls. Spoon batter into measuring cups first then transfer into bowls. Start with 1 1/2 cups, 1 1/4 cups, 1 cup and end with 1/2 cup batter divided

Add 8-10 drops of coloring per bowl, mix well

Grease a 9 inch spring form pan. Then starting with your largest colored batter, gently spread the first layer into the pan.

Then spoon the next color layer on top of the first.

Then using the flat end of a butter knife gently spread the batter – being careful not to mix the two colors together – rotate the pan. Repeat with the rest of the colored batter

Once you finish your last layer. Cover pan with foil and bake in oven according to box instructions. Let cake cool before removing from pan and slicing.

Recipe By Sarah Lasry via www.Kosherstreet.com the #1 source on the web for the kosher family.

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