Ladybug Cupcakes

This is how to make a ladybug cupcake so cute! They are so fun to make for birthdays or a baby shower. With a few ingredients you can transform a normal treat into an adorable insect.

We have 3 girls and yes there is something about girls and their love for ladybugs. Ladybug cupcakes are also a cute theme for a first Birthday party! If you're looking for cute cupcakeswe have one for you here!

Didn't these turn out adorable?? No it's not every day that our creations come out looking great but our girls loved this one. It's so easy too. use a boxed mix, bake in the oven or a few with our air fryer cupcakes instructions. Allow to cool and then let us show you how to make this ladybug cupcake.

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Things You Need

This is what you're going to need to get started. Of course you can tweak it to your liking but this is what has worked out best in our experimenting.

1. Cake mix and ingredients to prepare batter as directed on box
2. Cupcake muffin cups
3. A cupcake pan
4. Fine red sprinkles – we used this red sanding sugar
5. Edible small candy eyes
6. M&Ms – we picked out the brown ones, we don't recommend black icing dots as it stains
7. Mini Oreos
8. Light and fluffy frosting
   1. you can dye it red using this if you want
   2. or use red food coloring with white frosting
9. Stick pretzels

Use a small dish or bowl to dip the top like you see here to make it shiny red as the base of their body.

Now we started by baking red velvet cupcakes using cake mix. You can make some from scratch, but remember when we said we like EASY…..so we will go from there. This is how to make 6 cupcakes if you want a few.

Make a bunch for a birthday party or a few on a rainy weekend to have fun together.

If you're throwing a party this is a great and cheap activity to have the kids do too! Decorating cupcakes is cheap and always fun for girls and boys. have all the necessary items laid out on a table with the cupcakes already made.

You could make a few tables with different bug activities like this, use our insect coloring pages on another, and make ants on a log on another (cream cheese filled celery with raisins on top).

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Ladybug Cupcakes Recipe

This is how to make ladybug cupcakes for a birthday party that are red with black polka dots with edible eyes and easy enough for kids to make too. Prep Time 5 minutes minutes Cook Time 18 minutes minutes Servings 24 Author

Equipment

• 1 Bowl
• 1 muffin pan
• 1 small bowl

Ingredients

• 24 small pretzel sticks
• 1 jar red sugar
• 192 m&ms brown for dots
• 48 edible eyes
• 24 mini oreos
• 1 tub frosting red

Instructions

• use boxed or homemade yellow cake mix to make cupcakes. If you want a small batch, make 6 cupcakes. Allow them to cool completely before decorating.
• Use the back of a spoon to frost the top with red frosting.
• Pour red sugar or sprinkles into a bowl, turn frosted cupcake upside down and gently press on to the top so it's coated. Press brown candies on top for ladybug spots.
• Use a bit of frosting on back of candy eyes to stick on to a mini Oreo, then press that on to the front of the cupcake so it sticks in frosting. Break a pretzel stick in half and place on top of head for antennae.

Tips

Have plastic spoons for them to spread the icing on easier. Show them how to scoop some frosting on to the BACK of the spoon. Smooth it on to the top of the cupcake. If you don't want to color the frosting it is okay.

A thick layer of red sprinkles should make it red enough. Though we did color mine so the color was quite brilliant.

have them use the tip of the handle of their spoon to get a little bit of frosting. Put some on the back of the head to attach it. Also use it on the back of each candy eye so it sticks to the Oreo head. Attach the eyes before attaching the head, it will work better that way.

If you love these cute sheep cupcakes. They're solid for a baby shower, first birthday or Easter time! If you're throwing a ladybug birthday party these will be solid, let us know how they turn out!