Dog and Cat Cupcakes

Watch the video tutorial to see how easy it is to decorate Dog Cupcakes and Cat Cupcakes using Pillsbury™ Filled Pastry Bags. Everyone will love these adorably cute chocolate fudge-frosted cupcake dogs and vanilla-frosted cupcake cats.

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I love the convenience of baking with a cake mix and using store bought frosting, especially when I'm baking something like these Dog Cupcakes and Cat Cupcakes for a kids party. Don't you?

Pillsbury™ has a new product that will make decorating cupcakes, cookies, or cakes even easier. The Pillsbury™ Filled Pastry Bags, which you can find in the frosting aisle at Walmart, are disposable pastry bags filled with either chocolate fudge, vanilla, or cream cheese frosting. Each bag is even fitted with a star pastry tip on the end. These pre-filled pastry bags are perfect when you are short on time or when you don't want to purchase all the tools separately.

My favorite thing about using these pre-filled bags is the lack of dishes to clean up afterward. If you have any frosting left, just place the bag in a zip-top bag and refrigerate it for another use.

You can decorate a whole batch of 24 of these adorable cat and/or dog cupcakes in less than 30 minutes.

Decorate the dog cupcakes. 

• Press the tip of a Chocolate Fudge Pillsbury™ Filled Pastry Bag onto the cupcake around the outer edge.
• Squeeze the bag, pushing a small amount of frosting out onto the cupcake, then pull away quickly forming spikes of brown fur.
• Set the pastry tip next to the first spike of frosting fur and repeat, going around the perimeter of the cupcake.
• Cover the entire surface of the cupcake in chocolate fudge frosting fur.
• Pipe taller spikes to create the dog's snout.
• Add a black candy for the nose on the snout.
• Press two candy eyes into the frosting above the snout.
• Break one lobe off of a jumbo red heart sprinkle creating an oblong-shaped tongue.
• Press the tongue into the frosting under the snout.
• Pipe on two long floppy ears using the chocolate fudge frosting.

Decorate cute Cupcake Kitty Cats

• Press the tip of a Vanilla Pillsbury™ Filled Pastry Bag onto the cupcake around the outer edge.
• Squeeze the bag, pushing a small bit of frosting out onto the cupcake, then pull away quickly forming spikes of fur.
• Set the pastry tip next to the first spike of frosting fur and repeat, going around the perimeter of the cupcake.
• Cover the entire surface of the cupcake in vanilla frosting fur.
• Pipe two swirls of frosting to create the cat's snout.
• Press one pink heart in between the two swirls of frosting to create the nose.
• Attach 3 chocolate jimmies on either side of the nose.
• Press two candy eyes just above the snout.
• Break one red heart sprinkle into two pieces to create one tongue.
• Insert the tongue just below the snout.
• Pipe two ears onto the cupcake and attach two upside-down pink hearts to create the pink in the ears.

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Watch this video to see how easy these Cupcake Dogs and Cupcake Cats are to make...

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Dog and Cat Cupcakes

Prep Time

40 mins

Cook Time

16 mins

Cool

1 hr

Total Time

56 mins

 

Doctor a cake mix to make quick and easy cupcakes then decorate them using Pillsbury™ Filled Pastry Bags. Make Chocolate Fudge frosted Dog Cupcakes and Vanilla Cat Cupcakes decorated with candy eyes and sprinkles. 

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cat cupcakes, dog cupcakes

Servings: 24 cupcakes

Author: Beth Klosterboer

Ingredients

Vanilla Cupcakes

• 1 (15.75 ounce) box white cake mix
• 3 tablespoons white chocolate pudding mix
• 1 cup water
• ⅓ cup vegetable oil
• 4 egg whites
• 3 tablespoons sour cream

Cat Cupcakes (ingredients listed will make 24 cupcake kitty cats)

• 2 (16 ounce) Pillsbury™ Filled Pastry Bags, Vanilla (you'll need about 1 ounce per cupcake)
• 72 jumbo pink heart sprinkles
• 24 jumbo read heart sprinkles
• 144 chocolate jimmes
• 48 candy eyes, ½ inch

Dog Cupcakes (ingredients listed will make 24 cupcake dogs)

• 2 (16 ounce) Pillsbury™ Filled Pastry Bags, Chocolate Fudge (you'll need about 1 ½ ounces per cupcake)
• 24 black candies
• 24 jumbo red heart sprinkles
• 48 candy eyes, (½ inch)

Instructions

Vanilla Cupcakes

1. Combine cake mix, pudding mix, water, oil,egg whites, and sour cream in a large mixing bowl.

2. Using an electric mixer, beat on low speed for 30 seconds then increase speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes. 

3. Equally divide cake batter among 24 cupcake liners.

4. Bake for 15-18 minutes until the cakes spring back when you press in the center of a cupcake or a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. 

5. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove and set on a cooling rack and cool for another 50 minutes before frosting.

Cat Cupcakes

1. Pipe vanilla frosting fur all over cupcake.

2. Pipe two swirls for the snout.

3. Attach one pink heart nose, six chocolate jimmies whiskers, and two candy eyes.

4. Break one red heart sprinkle into two pieces, so you have one oblong shaped tongue. Insert it under the cat's snout. 

5. Pipe two ears and attach an upside down pink heart to each.

Dog Cupcakes

1. Pipe spikes of chocolate fudge fur all over top of cupcake.

2. Pipe taller spikes of frosting to create a snout.

3. Attach one black candy coated chocolate ball on the snout for the nose, add two candy eyes, and one red tongue. 

4. Pipe on two big floppy chocolate fudge frosting ears. 

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Beth Klosterboer

Hi, I'm Beth Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com

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