Grill Cupcakes

As the long weekend approaches, I’m sure there are many of you who are planning cookouts with family and friends.  These cupcakes are a wonderful addition to any cookout, and I bet kids would have a fantastic time decorating them.  They may be silly and cheesy, but I think they’re also pretty darn cute.   🙂  There’s no recipe in this post, just some basic guidelines on how to decorate the cupcakes.

Materials needed:
Your favorite cupcakes and icing
Black food coloring
Orange sugar sprinkles
Hot Tamales
Dots
Caramel Creams
Edible markers
toothpicks

Directions:
-Tint three-fourths of the icing black and spread across cupcakes.
-Add orange sugar sprinkles to center of cupcake.
-Mix a small amount of black icing with reserved white icing and pipe the “grates” across the cupcakes.
-Using a black edible marker, draw grill marks on Hot Tamales.
-Cut Dots in varying sizes.
-Roll Caramel Creams in your palms and then shape with fingers.
-Press toothpicks through Dots.

Inspired by this photo