Back-To-School Cupcakes

• 22 cupcakes of your choice
• 2 cans (16 ounces each) vanilla frosting
• Yellow, black and red paste food coloring
• Chocolate wafers, miniature cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies and vanilla wafers
• Other paste food coloring of your choice
• Coarse sugar

1. On a covered cake board, place a row of five cupcakes for top of bus. Arrange six cupcakes each in the second and third rows. Follow with a row of five cupcakes.
2. Tint 2-1/2 cups vanilla frosting yellow; carefully spread over cupcakes. Spread vanilla frosting over cupcakes as desired for windows. Place a chocolate wafer on each tire; attach a miniature sandwich cookie hubcap with frosting.
3. Tint a small amount of vanilla frosting black and a small amount red; set aside. Pipe outlines and desired details onto bus with black frosting.
4. Place a vanilla wafer in each window. Tint remaining frosting as desired. Pipe faces on vanilla wafers; pipe hair, hats and shirts as desired.
5. Spread red frosting onto cupcakes for stop sign and taillights. Fill in headlights with coarse sugar.

your choice, vanilla frosting, coloring, chocolate wafers, your choice, sugar

Taken from www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/back-to-school-cupcakes/ (may not work)