Dragonfly Cupcakes

Let fanciful dragonflies rest on your most colorful cupcakes. Mix and match colors of spice drop wings and candies with our Party Bright baking cups.

What you need:

Reynolds® Baking Cups (Purple Party)
1 package (18.25 ounces) yellow cake mix
1 container (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
Purple food coloring
1 cup white coarse decorating sugar
48 yellow spice drops
1/4 cup sugar
24 green chocolate covered peanuts
96 green candy-coated chocolate candies

Instructions:

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. 

PLACE Reynolds Baking Cups in muffin pans; set aside. 

PREPARE cake mix following package directions for 24 cupcakes.  Spoon cake batter into baking cups. 

BAKE following package directions (17 to 23 minutes).  Cool.

PLACE decorating sugar in a medium bowl.

TINT frosting purple. Spread the top of each cupcake with tinted frosting.

ROLL the edge of the cupcakes in the sugar to coat.

FLATTEN the yellow spice drops and dredge in the sugar to prevent sticking. Use scissors to cut the each spice drop into 2 wing shapes.

ARRANGE 4 spice drop wings on top of the cupcakes.

ADD the green candies as the body using the chocolate covered peanuts as the main body area.