Christmas Light Cupcakes

This is another one post where I am bragging about my Cake Boss skills. Turns out my roommate Caitlin is an equally great assistant in turning the kitchen into an icing-coated sprinkle-covered mess as Amy was in Newmarket!

I have wanted to make these cupcakes ever since I bought the coolest cupcake decorating book ever in August. However when I looked at them in August I thought it would be a breeze, oh how living in Montreal can complicate everything!!! It took me 5 trips to various grocery stores to finally find all of the ingredients. No joke. I went to Provigo, Metro, IGA, Uniprix and Walmart. If you want to make these, I would say just go to Walmart, they had the biggest candy selection and is the ONLY PLACE in Montreal that carries coloured sprinkles (WTF?).

I can briefly go over what to do but I just recommend buying the book. First you bake the cupcakes and let them cool. While waiting cut graham crackers into the shape of the bulb. Ice the cupcake and place the cracker on the icing. Cover the graham cracker with icing and smooth it to make a flat surface. Dip each light in a different colour of sprinkles.

The worst part: the string. I couldn't find green rope licorce so I had to use sour candy stuff which was not nearly as bendy. I used a knife to carve three holes in the jujubes: top and both sides. Stick a pretzel in each top and stick the green candy in each side. The awkward part: arrange the cupcakes as you want them because after this they are pretty much impossible to move, then insert the pretzel in each end of the cupcake. To make the very cute plug at the end use a bigger jujube and two pieces of excel gum!

I really like my plug :)

We arranged them around the food table.