Polliwog Cupcakes

My sister is a creative little artiste, so I cannot say I was astonished when she made an adorable frog cupcake at a program she goes to!  I could not resist making them with her, which was super-duper fun and easy!  Not to mention - they were delicious!  The only problem we had was agreeing on a name for these.  Personally I liked Kermy Kakes...judging by the title of this post, you can guess who won...

Polliwog Cupcakes
Yields approximately 12 cupcakes

Ingredients 
1 box chocolate cake mix
1 jar vanilla icing
Green food coloring
12 marshmallows
36 brown M&Ms
3 pink Airheads
1 white air head
1 small tube black icing


To Prepare the Cupcakes 
1. Prepare the cupcakes following the box directions and allow them to cool to room temperature.
2. When you are ready to assemble, set aside a few tablespoons of icing and dye the remaining icing green and ice the cupcakes.
3. Cut the marshmallows in half and place them on the cupcake.
4. Attach the M&Ms using the white icing that was set aside.
5. Cut each of the pink Airheads into 4 pieces.  Round one side of each piece so it looks like the rounded end of a tongue.
6. Place the Airhead on the cupcake.
7. Using the black icing, draw on nostrils and a mouth.
8. Cut small pieces of the white Airhead and "glue" them to the remaining M&Ms with icing to make flies.
9. Attach the flies to the tongue with a dot of icing, and enjoy!