Cookie Monster Cupcakes

I don't think anyone forgets the first time they walk in to the Hummingbird Bakery in London. I know most of the world thinks that the Brit's food is Fish & Chips, baked beans or Haggis. But I like to think of it as cupcakes.

I always use the Hummingbird Bakery's recipe for Red Velvet cupcakes. But they never taste quite as good. I'm sure they lie in their recipe book - which is still great, even if just for the pictures. This Cookie Monster creation was made with a Blue Velvet cake mix. (The secret is to change the red food colouring to blue...guard it with your life.)


Decorative must haves for a dozen cupcakes:

450g icing sugar
75g unsalted butter
180g cream cheese (of the Philadelphia variety ideally)
A ridiculous amount of blue food colouring - a couple of 40ml bottles
6 mini chocolate chip cookies
24 white M&Ms (or white Milka drops)
3 tbsp cocoa powder
The circular icing nozzle & the flower/hairy icing nozzle


1. Be totally prepared to be covered from head to foot in blue icing.
2. Mix together the butter and icing sugar, slowly beat in the cream cheese using an electric paddle mixer. Don't beat the mixture for too long, only a few minutes otherwise it will get runny and impossible to shape into Cookie Monster fur.

3. Pick out the white M&Ms and let your brother/boyfriend/friend/housemates eat all the other colours.
4. Separate a small amount of the icing from the batch and add the cocoa powder to get a dark dark chocolate icing.
5. Colour the rest of the icing blue - adding the colouring slowly until you get totally the right Cookie Monster colour.Cover your cupcakes in Cookie Monster fur using the furry/star icing nozzle.
6. Using the round icing nozzle squeeze a little drop of the dark brown icing onto the side of the white M&Ms to make eyes and stick these on too.
7. Break your mini chocolate chip cookies in half and stick these in to make little cute mouths.

 Me want cookie..... om nom nom nom nom nom