I made the following cupcakes for a bug themed party and it was so fun. The cupcakes themselves are just regular out of the box cake mix with store bought chocolate frosting, but below you can learn more about how I decorated them.
(DISCLOSURE: This post contains some Amazon links to some of the more unsual candy used...mostly just cause not everyone would know what it was without seeing a picture even though this is all stuff you can usually find at the supermarket...but I could earn commission from these if you bought something through the link and need to disclose that.).
THE WORM
To make the dirt I removed the pie crust from a pie tin and broke it up in a plastic baggie, sprinked it on the frosted cupcake, and added a gummie worm. (You can crumble up graham crackers too...I wanted thicker chunks, and needed the tin for something else anyways, and the pie tins were on sale and actually cheeper than a box of graham crackers, so that's why I went that route.).
THE BUTTERFLY
I used Fruit by the Foot and Twizzlers Pull and Peel Candy to make the butterfly on this cupcake. First I cut (with scissors) a roughly 2.5 in segment of fruit by the foot and pinched the middle to make the wings. I cut two Pull and Peel Strands for antenna and wrapped another length of fruit by the foot around them to make the body, then placed it on top of the wings. I sort of wish I used a brighter colored icing (like yellow) under the butterfly and dragonfly. (Note...just learned that Twizzlers has a multicolored version of their Pull and Peel candy, too! Didn't see that when I was making these!)
THE SPIDER
I used Butterfinger minis (NOT full size) for the abdomen (other candies like Snickers or Milky Way minis could work too...though Butterfinger is particularly rounded). The legs were made of red vines. The head is an M&M, and the eyes are made with red writing icing.
THE ANT
The antennas are Twizzlers Pull and Peel Candy (make longer than needed to stick into the cake icing), the body is M&Ms, and the legs are cake icing. The dirt is crumbled pie crust (see instructions for worm above).
THE DRAGONFLY
The dragonfly is made by first cutting out wings from Fruit by the Foot, and placing them on the cupcake. Then I twisted two small segments of Fruit by the Foot to make the antenna, and wrapped more Fruit by the Foot around that to make the body, which was then placed on top of the wings (once again, I think a "flowery" color icing like yellow or pink, or even green for grass, would have looked better under this.)
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