Morning Rach
Right, I have two ideas for you and some pics to help you out.
One of my students made a cookie monster (as per pic) a while ago using vanilla cupcakes and buttercream.
In order to re-create this design, you will need a Wilton 1M Star piping nozzle (the nozzle can also be used to swirl rose designs too) to pipe the buttercream. Some Navy Blue Sugarflair concentrated dye and a cocktail stick, some mini cookies and some white/black icing.
First, make a batch of
cupcakes and some
vanilla buttercream. You could add some chocolate chips to your cupcake batter to continue a chocolate chip theme or add a few crushed cookies to your buttercream although you don't want to over cookie it!
You need to add a
TINY bit of dye to your buttercream using a cocktail stick as per my picture. Stir into your buttercream; this will then alter the colour and start dying it blue, keep adding more colour to the buttercream in phases until you have achieved the desired colour (remember you can always add-in, but you can't take out once added). Always ensure you use a clean cocktail stick ensuring you don't contaminate your dye with buttercream.
Once done, scoop your buttercream into a piping bag (I use disposable ones that require the nozzle to be inserted first and the end snipped off). Remember if you wish to free up your hands place the piping bag in a glass as per my
filling piping bag tip What you do is hold the piping bag at a 90° angle squeeze the bag, push down then lift up. (Try this on a work surface first) Another tip for
piping cupcakes is, place your cupcake in a small glass in order to hold it still whilst piping or apparently place on a damp tea towel as this also does the job.
To make the eyes roll small circles of icing in your hand and then flatten them using your thumb and index finger, place these straight onto your freshly piped buttercream to make them stick. Then roll a smaller ball of icing for the pupil the same way. You can use a tiny drop of water to stick the pupil to the white icing. Then insert a mini cookie into the mouth and then store them in the fridge. Remember biscuits go soft and soggy exposed to air so keep them refrigerated.
You can also do this fab design too:
In order to recreate the fur design, you will need a Grass Nozzle; the Wilton range have two sizes, the #233 and #234. The #233 will give you fine strands of fur as per the cookie monster pictures, and the #234 will give you thicker fur. I would advise the #233 nozzle for this one, and instead of the Navy Sugarflair dye, I would use Baby Blue or Ice Blue to get the colour. For the eyes on this design, white chocolate buttons have been used and rolled up black icing as the pupils; choc chips can also be used for the pupils.