Sea Otter Cupcakes - Finding Dory Treats

• Pasta & Grains

  • 12 Candy sea shells

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 oz Modeling chocolate, white
  • 2 oz Modeling chocolate, brown
  • 2 oz Modeling chocolate, black
  • 1 tsp Piping gel or melted chocolate

• Bread & Baked Goods

  • 12 Chocolate cupcakes frosted with

• Other

  • 12 Reese's cups
  • 24 Whoppers

Found on hungryhappenings.com

Description

Ingredients

• 12 Reeses Cups
• 1 ounce white modeling chocolate
• 2 ounces brown modeling chocolate
• 2 ounces black modeling chocolate
• 1 teaspoon piping gel or melted chocolate
• 12 chocolate cupcakes frosted with a big swirl of chocolate frosting
• 24 Whoppers
• 12 candy sea shells

Directions

• Unwrap Reeses Cups.
• Marbleize white modeling chocolate with half of the brown modeling chocolate.
• Roll out to about 1/16th inch thickness.
• Cut 24 small rounds using a 1 inch round (fluted) cutter.
• Use a pick tool to draw on whiskers, feathering the edges of the circles.
• Roll out the remaining brown modeling chocolate to about 1/4 inch thickness.
• Cut out 24 small 1/4 inch rounds using a medium round plunger cutter.
• Cut each circle into a 3/4 moon, using the plunger cutter.
• Roll out half of the black modeling chocolate.
• Cut out 24 small 1/4 inch circles using a medium round plunger cutter.
• Pinch off jelly bean size pieces of the remaining black modeling chocolate and roll it into oval noses.
• Use piping gel as glue to attach two whiskers, a nose, and two eyes to the front of each Reeses cups.
• Attach two of the brown moon shaped pieces to either side of the Reeses cup for the ears.
• Set the decorated Reeses Cup otter on the upper half of the frosting swirl on a cupcake.
• Print out a wave cupcake wrapper, cut it out, then wrap it around your cupcake, taping the ends together.
• Press two Whoppers into the frosting just above the top of the waves and set a candy shell in between.
• Repeat creating a total of 12 Sea Otter Cupcakes.