Making Walrus Cupcakes

Just in case, anyone else in the world has a toddler/child/cousin/neighbor who is interested in walrus cupcakes I am here to guide you through my process.

The Cupcakes
We used the doctored cake mix cupcake recipe from Hello Cupcake!

• Box of Cake Mix
• amount of oil called for on box
• 4 eggs (replacing the eggs called for on box)
• 1 Cup Buttermilk (replacing the water called for on box) 

Fill paper liners 2/3 full and bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. 

These make a denser cupcake that holds up to decorating. 

We used plain old store bought frosting because it's cheap, easy and sticky enough to hold all the stuff on. 

The Walrus Faces

You'll Need:

• White Melting Chocolate
• Nutterbutter Cookies
• Mini Oreo Cookies
• M & Ms 

For the tusks, melt the melting chocolate and put into a small ziploc with a corner cut. Pipe onto wax paper. You can freehand the tusks or put a stencil under the wax paper to follow. I would make more than you need and remember, 2 tusks per cupcake. Let harden. 

Prep your nutterbutters by gently opening them and using a knife to remove peanut butter filling. 

Prep your Mini Oreos by gently opening trying to keep the creme on one cookie only. This will take many tries until you are satisfied with how the cookies look. This is not a problem, you may eat all the discarded pieces as a matter of not wasting anything. (2 creme-on-cookies per cupcake.) 

Sort your M&Ms. If you buy a big big bag you can choose any eye color you want. We opted for blue and green eyes. Also you will need a brown M&M for the nose. But we just bought a small bag so that made our choice for us. 

To build the walrus face: 

1. Place you eye M&Ms on the Mini Oreo pressing it into the creme a little to bond it. 
2. We placed the eyes on the cupcake first, because it let us space out the cupcake best, but you go ahead and do it in whatever order you want. 
3. We then placed the nutterbutter snout. 
4. Stick the M&M nose in, we opted to prop ours up half in the frosting, half onto the snout but again, if you have an idea of how the nose should look, go for it! 
5. We placed the tusks on making sure to stick them slightly under the nutterbutter. 
6. The cupcakes are done and you may eat them. 

The one thing I can say about these cupcakes is that all the ingredients are tasty. Sometimes with the fanciest fancy cupcake decorations flavors don't go well together or something is less than tasty, but that is not really the case here. Happy Eating!