I made these cupcakes some time last year, they are just a basic chocolate cake with white icing tinted green. I should mention that whenever I dye icing green I always add a little bit of yellow because I find that it makes it a brighter green, more of a lime green.
The ants' bodies are made from chocolate almonds and their legs and antlers are just piped chocolate icing. If you are allergic to nuts or are making them for a party that someone there is you could use anything that looked similar, like chocolate covered ju-jubes or make smaller ants with chocolate covered raisins.
The watermelons are just fruit slice candies, they come exactly like that, I just piped on some seeds for detail. Getting the watermelons to stand up is a challenge, I will not lie. I used melted chocolate and pretty much stood in my fridge and held the watermelon up until the chocolate hardened. Make sure you use enough icing that the almonds are stuck in there good, because they can roll over since they are round, which makes it even more difficult. But I promise the frustration is always worth it!!\
I had so many more pictures, but since my laptop got stolen in December I lost them all and had to take these ones off of facebook.
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| nakey ants |
Rachel xo.
