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