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Mini cupcakes frosted with chocolate frosting and dipped in chocolate cookie crumbs, with a candy carrot stuck into it them to look like it's growing out of the dirt.

Candy Carrots and Carrot Patch Cupcakes

These easy little candy carrots are as delicious as they are adorable! They are perfect for adorning carrot cake or Carrot Patch Cupcakes!
Total Time 10 minutes
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Ingredients

For the Carrots

  • orange Starbursts or other pliable orange candy such as Tootsie Rolls or Airheads
  • Twizzlers Twists Rainbow Candy you'll only need the green ones

For the Carrot Patch Cupcakes

  • cupcakes home made from a boxed mix, or store bought
  • chocolate frosting
  • chocolate cookie crumbs from Oreos or chocolate wafers

Instructions

To Make the Candy Carrots

  • Each carrot will use up about half a Starburst worth of candy. Just mold it into a soft cone shape, then use a skewer to poke down the top of the carrot and make an opening to insert the greens. I stick the skewer pretty far down and wiggle it around a little bit.
  • The green Twizzlers are already in little line shapes, so just cut them into small pieces, and take 3 and press them together at one end, and then nestle them in the opening in your carrot.
  • You can then gently press with a sharp knife to make little lines down the front of the carrots.

To Make Carrot Patch Cupcakes

  • Frost your cupcakes with chocolate frosting and press into chocolate cookie crumbs.
  • Nestle a carrot across the top of the cupcake, or poke it right down into it like it’s growing in the dirt. Note that the half Starburst size is perfect for mini cupcakes. You may want to use a whole Starburst for each carrot for full-sized cupcakes.

Notes

  • Depending on how fresh your candy is, sometimes they can be a little hard.  If that’s the case, I’ve found that popping them in the microwave for just a few seconds (5 seconds in mine) softens them perfectly. 
  • For the cupcakes, you could use vanilla frosting with graham crackers crumbs, cinnamon and sugar, or coconut flakes tinted green in place of the cookie crumbs.
  • These little candy carrots are a great way to decorate Carrot Cake.
Course: Candy, Crafts, Decorations & Frostings, Desserts
Cuisine: Decorations & Frostings
Keyword: Candy Carrots and Carrot Patch Cupcakes
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