For the cupcakes, I made chocolate cupcakes topped with vanilla frosting. For the Diego details I used mini M&M's (eyes), fruit roll-ups (mouth), cheerios (ears), nd for the hair I had a template and traced with melting chocolate. For Baby Jaguar I tinted the frosting with a few drops of orange food coloring and couple drops of brown I used red and orange dots candy (nose and ears), mini m&M's (ears), and black frosting for the whiskers and mouth. I think these turned out very cute, I did make a joke that Diego kinda had a Don King fro, but they were still adorable. If you would like to make these cupcakes here is the link: http://www.nickjr.com/recipes/diego-cupcakes.jhtml.
For the cake I also made a chocolate cake, adopted by Martha Stewart's Devil Food Cake Recipe. I did a two layer cake filled with vanilla buttercream frosting and tinted green to resemble grass. For the decorations I used piping gel tinted blue for the lake surrounded by crumbled graham crackers to resemble sand. I used green laffy taffy ropes for the tree trunks and piped green frosting with a star tip to resemble leaves. I made a fondant elephant and baby jaguar for figurines to complete the cake. I'm getting more and more comfortable with decorating cakes as it is much easier to decorate cupcakes which I love. Let me know what you think about the cake.
I had a lot of fun making the cake and cupcakes and look forward to my next baking project.
