Winter Fantasy Cupcakes

• 1 to 2 cans vanilla frosting (16 ounces each)
• Cupcakes of your choice
• Coarse sugar
• Chocolate wafers
• Semisweet chocolate chips and miniature semisweet chocolate chips
• Orange candy slices
• Additional vanilla frosting
• Blue food coloring, pearl dragees, blue jumbo diamond sprinkles and edible glitter, optional

1. Frost cupcakes, reserving some frosting for decorating as desired.
2. For snowmen cupcakes: Dip the top of each cupcake in coarse sugar; gently shake off excess sugar. For stovepipe hats, microwave chocolate wafers for a few seconds to slightly soften as needed. Use a serrated knife to cut two narrow strips from opposite sides of each wafer. (Large center piece will form crown of hat; one strip will form the brim.)
3. Add chips and mini chips to cupcake to form eyes and mouth. Cut a small piece of orange slice to form the nose.
4. Stick brim of hat, rounded side up, into top of cupcake; insert hat crown into the top edge. Secure with additional frosting. Color frosting if desired; place in a resealable plastic bag. Cut a small hole in corner of bag. Pipe a decorative hat band; add dragees and sprinkles if desired. Sprinkle cupcakes with glitter if desired.

vanilla frosting, your choice, sugar, chocolate wafers, semisweet chocolate chips, vanilla frosting, food coloring

Taken from www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/winter-fantasy-cupcakes/ (may not work)