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Obsessed with cookie dough? Use it instead of frosting.
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Serve some milk (-y chocolate) and cookies atop a cupcake.
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Make a batch of maple breakfast cupcakes that Ron Swanson would approve of.
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Unwrap some Dum Dums and turn them into beautiful flowers.
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Or cut up a few Airheads and turn them into an edible garden.
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Create a field of toadstool cupcakes with white chocolate spots.
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Make "rings of fire" out of pipe cleaners for a circus party.
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Create a flock of fluffy sheep using marshmallows.
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Use almond slices to make feathers for a cupcake owl.
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Create a school of fish with M&M scales.
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Turn pretzel rods into fishing rods.
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Transform vanilla coconut frosted cupcakes into sugary sushi rolls.
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Prepare a tray of cupcakes that look like apples.
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Or hunks of watermelon.
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Make a banana split with cupcakes instead of ice cream.
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Or arrange a bunch of cupcakes into a giant ice cream cone.
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Pull a Jackson Pollock and splatter-paint your cupcake tops with frosting.
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Use number sparklers to make countdown cupcakes.
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Make ornaments using miniature M&M's and a ROLO.
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Cover your cupcakes with edible confetti.
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Top a fluffy white cloud of frosting with a candy rainbow.
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Coat a cupcake with "dirt" and fill it with "mud."
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Top pink lemonade cupcakes with some citrus slice gummies and a smattering of sprinkles.
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Using a piping bag *seems* intimidating, but it's not!
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Once you learn the piping basics, try your hand at these cupcakes topped with layers of rainbow-hued frosting.
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Or forgo elaborate edible decorations and print out some monster cupcake paper covers and toppers.