Last week I saw a super easy recipe for Nutella cupcakes on Pinterest with only 3 ingredients. Basically, you only need 1 cup (280 g) of Nutella, 2 eggs and 10 tablespoons of flour, then mix everything up and bake – you can read the full recipe here.
To keep things simple, just use Nutella or peanut butter to frost the cupcakes… I’m sure everyone is addicted to at least one of these!
Now going back to my Nutella Peanut Butter Monkey Cupcakes… I’ve seen some cute 3D Panda cupcakes all over Facebook lately, I wanted to try that easy recipe for Nutella cupcakes and then I started playing a bit with ingredients I had on hand.
The end result? These 3D Monkey Cupcakes! Cute or not, I’ll let you be the judge : -) !
I can’t wait for Daniel to grow up a bit so we can make these together… such an easy and fun activity for your kids with a delicious end result!
Ingredients:
- Regular cupcakes for the body
- Mini cupcakes for the head
- Peanut butter
- Chocolate sprinkles
- 2 Reese’s peanut butter cups per monkey
- 3 mini cookies of your choice per monkey – I used mini ginger snaps but you can use any cookies, mini Nilla wafers etc.
- Candy eyeballs or any tiny white candies or even some white fondant – you can easily pipe the pupils using melted chocolate
- Melted chocolate for the mouth and nose (or that chocolate ice cream sauce you can easily find in stores) and a squeeze bottle or piping bag fitted with a round tip
Directions:
Bake your cupcakes and frost them generously with peanut butter. It doesn’t matter if they look messy since you’ll cover them with chocolate sprinkles. You’ll need a regular cupcake for the body and a mini cupcake for the head.
Cover the cupcakes with chocolate sprinkles.
Place the smaller cupcake on top of the bigger one as seen below. Cut a mini cookie in half to make the ears and stick one on each side of the cupcake. Use peanut butter to attach them. Cut off ¾ of another cookie for the mouth and use a whole cookie for the belly.
Cut your Reese peanut butter cups in half for the arms and legs.
Attach the eyes.
Lastly use melted chocolate to pipe the pupils if you’re not using premade eyeballs. Also, draw the mouth and nose and you’re done!
Hi Roxy
I am professionally a cake decorator since 5 years and now I was just running out of Ideas! But after coming to your blog just got a whole new set of ideas 😀 thanks for these kinds of post and especially this post was the best! I taught this to my 9 year old daughter and Now she flaunts them in front of everyone!
I’m glad my ideas inspired you but even happier that your daughter loved my monkey cupcakes :).
So funny and cute!
I want to try to see if i can make them!!!!
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These are seriously AMAZING! I love them.
Pinned.
Thanks for linking up at Wordy Wednesday!
too freakin cute!!!! tfa 🙂
I LOVE these! I plan on having a bear and honey bee baby shower and with a couple tweaks this is perfect inspiration! Thanks for sharing! I found you on the Treasure Box Tuesday blog party!
Jeannine
These are seriously too cute!!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
SO CUTE! BIG SURPRISE THESE ARE A TICKLE MY TASTEBUD FEATURE AT http://IMNOTATROPHYWIFE.COM ! xo, laura
please link up again and would LOVE a social media shoutout.
YAY Thank you so much for the feature! I’ll be linking back shortly. Heading over to the party now 🙂 !
Those are so stinkin’ cute!!
How creative, those look great. Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again. Have a great day!!
I can’t wait to make these for my grandson. He loves Curious George.
These little monkeys are super adorable and would be so fun for a kid go back to school party. Just shared!
Roxy, we absolutely LOVE this recipe over at MUNCHING MONDAYS!!! Congrats…you are being featured!!!
Hope to see you this week and make sure to spread the great news 🙂 xo Nic
Oh that’s awesome Nic, so happy to hear this! Thanks for the feature, I’ll for sure join the party this week as well 🙂 !
These are super cute and include all my favorite flavors! Pinned & sharing this on my FB page today. 🙂
Thanks for pinning and sharing ! Have a great week!|
You are so creative! I love how these turned out. They are so cute!! Thank you for linking up to Party Time and we hope to see you again next week!
Thanks so much Jacqui!
Ok, these are the cutest thing I’ve seen in a while! Would love for you to link up and share with our readers:) Thanks http://partypatisserie.com/2014/08/party-time-linky-7/
Thanks for stopping by Debbie and for the party invite! I’m heading over now to share this 🙂 !
Oh my goodness, these might be the cutest things I have ever seen. So cute I don’t know if I could bear to eat them! Thank you for linking at the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party. Hope to see you again next week.
Woohoo!! So glad you linked this up the best from your blog this week at our Bewitchin Projects block party! Be sure to come back again on Sunday starting at 6am EST over at OurMiniFamily.com to link up your projects again–the linky party runs from Sunday to Thursday each week :D
~Cathy Mini~
These are so stinkin’ cute!! Found your recipe at In and Out of the Kitchen Link party. I am one of the hostesses of Tickle My Tastebuds and would love you to stop by and link up this recipe if you have not yet already. Here is the link
http://bit.ly/1sRtMWx
Lori
Thanks for stopping by Lori, I shared these at your link up party 🙂 ! Thanks for hosting!
Simply adorable and so creative! Sharing this with my friend who loves monkeys 🙂
Amanda – Bewitchin’ Projects Linky
Thanks for stopping by Amanda, I’m glad you like them :)! Thanks for sharing with your friend as well, I hope they will enjoy making them :)!
These little cupcakes are just too cute!!! My younger children will go crazy over these. What a fun cupcake and I can imagine them being a total hit at birthday parties or any gathering of children. Pinning. Thanks for sharing. I’m going to get my younger ones in on this and make them for our dessert to take to church this Sunday. Cute, cute, cute!!!
So glad you like them Karen, I’m sure you’ll have a lot of fun making these with your kids! Let me know how they turn out :)!
This are just the cutest dessert in the world. I have to do this with my nieces!!! Pinned!
Thanks for pinning Shaina, I’m glad you like them :)! So fun and easy to make!
I just saw these cuties on pinterest! And my daughter begged me to make them. Thanks for the cute recipe!
Hehe let me know how they turn out! 🙂 !
Thanks for coming and linking up at #The Weekend Social. Please be sure to come back next week starting Thursdays at 9PM EST on KitchenDreaming.com ! I hope to see you there!
These are just so stinkin’ cute!
Thanks Judy!
Oh, those are super cute!! I will have to share those with my sister…. she loves to make things like this.
Thanks Carrie! Hope your sister will enjoy these, they’re super easy to make 🙂 !
wow these are SO adorable.. my inner child definitely loves this. i can only imagine how good these would have tasted. thanks for the inspiration!
These are super adorable, just fell in love with them – solo cute! Awesome job on this one. You have a beautiful space.