Hot Dog Cupcakes

Submitted by Cook4_6

"My eldest daughter entered these into the fair a couple of years ago. The idea originally came from Family Fun Magazine. You can use your favorite cupcake and icing recipe! This was a very fun project for a Mom (or Dad) and a young child!"

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 1

ingredients

• circus peanuts
• 1 square caramel candy
• yellow decorator's icing
• red decorator's icing
• cut-up green gumdrop (optional)
• 1 baked cupcake
• 29.58 ml white icing
• 4.92 ml small mixed color nonpareils

directions

1. For the bun, cut a wedge in the circus peanut. If the caramel is soft, roll it into a hot dog shape. If it's hard, first soften it in your hand or in a microwave for a few seconds. Caution: the caramel can get hot!
2. Place the "hot dog" in the bun and squirt on a squiggly line of yellow and/or red icing.
3. Garnish with green gumdrop "relish," if you wish.
4. Frost the cupcake with white icing, place the hot dog on top, and sprinkle on nonpareils.