{"id":17596,"date":"2013-04-25T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=17596"},"modified":"2013-04-25T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:32:18","slug":"adorable-puppy-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=17596","title":{"rendered":"Adorable Puppy Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was feeling creative in the kitchen this week and decided to bake some cupcakes for the staff at Gracie’s doggie daycare. \u00a0Yes, our dog goes to daycare sometimes to help use up some of her high energy. \u00a0A four-mile run doesn’t always cut it. \u00a0Mom suggested I make something dog- related for them, and the searching began. \u00a0I looked on Pinterest and found a cute picture of a puppy-like cupcake, but there were no directions. \u00a0 I guessed on some of the things, and they turned out great!!<\/h3>\n

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Here it is \u00a0– a puppy cupcake, and they are super easy.<\/h3>\n

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\u00a0 I followed a cookies ‘n’ cream cupcake recipe, and honestly, it wasn’t that amazing. \u00a0If I make them again, I will go with a vanilla cupcake and vanilla frosting.<\/h3>\n

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While the cupcakes baked, I prepped the dog ears. \u00a0The cupcake dog ears – not my real dog’s ears. \u00a0I used caramels that I bought in the bulk food section. \u00a0I microwaved three of them at a time for about seven seconds \u00a0just to make them a tad soft and easy to roll. Each caramel made one floppy ear.<\/h3>\n

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Once the ears were rolled out, I took my kitchen shears and just cut out ear shapes. \u00a0Some were longer than others, but I thought it was okay. \u00a0You can use a knife, but I had better success with the kitchen shears.<\/h3>\n

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After prepping the ears, I made the tongues. \u00a0I used a pink sugar sheet by Wilton. \u00a0Again, I used shears which were easier for me to work with than a knife. \u00a0This is the first time I have ever worked with a sugar sheet, and I am a fan. \u00a0Once I cut out the tongues, I made a little mark in the middle so they would look more realistic. \u00a0 When the\u00a0cutouts were prepped, I iced the cupcakes and put a little more in one area to add definition and to hold the nose (a chocolate covered raisin or peanut) and the tongue.<\/h3>\n

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After I had spread the icing, I made the eyes with black decorating gel . \u00a0Then \u00a0I added the ears, nose and tongue, and I had a puppy cupcake.<\/h3>\n

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And by the way, the staff loved them.<\/h3>\n

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Gel and sugar sheet picture from Wilton.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was feeling creative in the kitchen this week and decided to bake some cupcakes for the staff at Gracie’s doggie daycare. \u00a0Yes, our dog goes to daycare sometimes to help use up some of her high energy. \u00a0A four-mile run doesn’t always cut it. \u00a0Mom suggested I make something dog- related for them, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17596"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17661,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17596\/revisions\/17661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}