Alright, today we're here to learn how to make this very cute little Cookie Monster
Cupcake, one of our bestsellers and a popular favorite for kids' parties.
I'm starting off today with a plain vanilla cupcake.
Sometimes you can use a vanilla chocolate chip, any flavor you like really.
Some of our tools and equipment today.
I've got two skewers.
I've just cut mine off to make them a little bit shorter, a little bit easier to manage.
I've got a Loyal Number 3, just a regular piping bag.
I've got the Loyal Number 20 piping nozzle, quite a wide mouth on the end of that one.
We've pre-filled that bag with some blue buttercream.
Now our buttercream, you see the consistency of the buttercream frosting you want to be
working with.
Quite spoon-aple, quite a good consistency for piping.
You don't really want it much thinner than that or else you're not going to get the right
effect.
We also have some Berry Blue Aeroplane jelly in our bowl over here, jelly crystals.
We've used just the regular Woolworths Queen Blue food dye to color that buttercream.
And we're using some Nestle Chocolate Melts in the white chocolate along with some chocolate
chips for his eyes.
And we've got some chocolate chip cookies just over here.
So first things first.
We've got our piping bag filled, as I mentioned, with that blue buttercream.
Now you do want to make sure that your buttercream is right on the end, almost coming out the
end so that you don't get any air bubbles or anything that's going to go splat as you're
piping.
I'm going to position that directly in the middle of the cupcake.
And I'm just going to squeeze gently.
You don't need to go terribly fast on this.
So you can see it's just coming out in a lovely mound.
I'm just using just enough pressure to let it just sort of push it out, not too much
that it goes everywhere.
See there?
We've got a little nice blue mountain.
Now to get Cookie Monster's lovely furry look, I'm going to take that mountain and we're
going to roll it in these Berry Blue jelly crystals.
Just give that a couple little turns just to make sure it's nice and coated.
Put that to the side.
Now we've got our coated little mountain.
I'm just going to use the palm of my hand just to round that down, just to give it that
nice Cookie Monster head shape.
Look at that?
Beautiful.
Alright, now for Cookie Monster's eyes, I've got some pre-melted Nestle white chocolate
over here.
So I'm just going to just dip my skewer into that one.
And just pop a little bit of white chocolate right on the edge of each of those Nestle
Melts.
While that's still wet, I'm going to get two chocolate chips, preferably about the same
size, just for the consistency for his eyeballs.
Just perched them on the edge there.
Here we go.
Leave those for a couple of seconds to dry.
Cookie Monster's mouth is essentially a cookie because he's eating it, so always a chocolate
chip cookie for Cookie Monster.
I like to find a nice small-ish and very thin cookie.
Because if you get a cookie that's too thick, it will taste delicious but it has potential
to take Cookie Monster's head off.
Now with this one, I am going to support the cupcake around the back here.
And when I put the cookie in, I'm just going to slightly tilt it down so it's going a little
bit on to the cupcake so that doesn't...you sort of want to look a little bit of half-
angle here.
Position it down and just push it in nice and slowly.
You don't want to go too fast on that.
Alright, if you'd like to neat that up at all, you can just use that palm of your hand
again.
There we go, just to smooth that down around that cookie.
Last but not the least; we've got Cookie Monster's eyes.
So we take out two eyes.
Now the eyes are something that you can make quite a bit in advance if you're making quite
a few of these and you want to save some time on the day.
With Cookie Monster, he's crazy for cookies so he always want to have the eyes looking
that sort of manic cookie fiend look.
I always position one eye right down on to the blue icing and the other one looking up
in the opposite direction as he's eating out his cookie.
So there you have your Cookie Monster cupcake.