Jun 20

Make Cogsworth Cupcakes at Home

Screen Shot 2015-06-20 at 10.41.46 AMMissing Disney?  You can create a little taste of your favorite place right in the comfort of your own kitchen.  In only 45 minutes, you can have Beauty and the Beast inspired cupcakes when you make these cute Cogsworth cupcakes at home!

These cupcakes are fun the whole family can enjoy making together!

Here’s what you will need:

  • Peach-colored frosting –  Stir 1 drop of red food coloring and 2 to 3 drops of yellow food coloring into 1 cup of butter cream frosting.
  • Cupcakes
  • A Tootsie Roll Midgee
  • Waxed paper
  • Rolling pin
  • Toothpicks
  • Almond slivers
  • Mini marshmallows
  • Confectioner’s sugar
  • Chocolate chips
  • Red Twizzler rope candy
  • Black decorator’s frosting or gel
  • Yellow Sweeties candy
  1. Frost the cupcakes and set aside while you create Cogsworth’s hair.
  2. Microwave a Tootsie Roll Midgees for up to 6 seconds to slightly soften it. Then sandwich the candy between two pieces of waxed paper and use the rolling pin to flatten it to about 1/8 inch thickness. Use a knife (butter knives work just fine for kids) to cut two 1/2- by 2-inch strips from the flattened candy.
  3. Working with one strip at a time, use a toothpick to roll the ends in opposite directions.
  4. Stick one end of an almond sliver into the top of the cupcake and then press the rolled Midgee strips in place on the sides of it.
  5. For eyes, slice a mini marshmallow in half and sprinkle confectioner’s sugar on the sticky sides. Flatten both pieces with your thumb. Then press a chocolate chip, tip down, into the center of each. Press the eyes in place on the cupcake, leaving room to add eyebrows later.
  6. For Cogsworth’s mouth, press a 2 3/4-inch length of red Twizzler candy into the frosting, forming a wide smile. Add short lengths of Twizzler to the ends of the mouth.
  7. Use the black decorator’s frosting or gel to pipe on eyebrows. Next, pipe on clock hands that extend from the point where the nose will go to just below the mouth. For Cogsworth’s nose, press a Sweeties candy in place, covering the very tops of the clock hands.
  8. Enjoy your Disney-inspired creation!

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Holly Wiencek is the author of Capturing the Magic: A Photographic Journey Through the Walt Disney World Parks. A Florida native and lifelong Disney enthusiast, Holly has been visiting Disney Parks since she was a toddler. With countless visits to both Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort, she has spent a lifetime exploring and learning about the history and legacy Walt Disney left behind and the details created by Disney Imagineering. She spends her spare time making Disney magic in her everyday life and enjoys sharing that magic with her husband and her daughter, Abby.

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