Mark’s birthday was last week and as a fun (and super easy) dessert for his birthday the children decided that they wanted to make “Spaghetti and Meatball” Cupcakes.
No, it's not a big plate of spaghetti, they're cupcakes!
We got this idea from the adorable book Hello, Cupcake! After the kids and I had so much fun making the hamburger and ant cupcakes that we made for Memorial Day, I saw the book ‘Hello Cupcake’ in the store and purchased it for Sadie, our 6 year old gourmet wannabe.
This book is perfect for children because it doesn’t require special, hard-to-find tools or ingredients and the techniques are simple and explained clearly.
We did things the easy way and purchased vanilla cake mix and pre-made frosting (I know, I know after all my talk about making things from scratch, I’m using the 2-week old baby excuse. )
Ingredients we used to make 20 cupcakes/2 platters of spaghetti:
- Vanilla cake mix
- White frosting
- White cupcake papers
- Cocoa powder (for tinting frosting)
- yellow food coloring (for tinting frosting)
- sandwich bag (for creating the pasta)
- hazelnut chocolates (Ferrero Rocher)
- low-sugar strawberry preserves
- 2 TBL white chocolate
We tinted the frosting with a bit of cocoa powder and yellow food coloring until it looked the right color for pasta
and then laid 10 cupcakes out on each of two platters. Before we started making the ‘noodles’ the children lightly frosted each cupcake.
For the ‘noodles’ we spooned frosting into a sandwich bag, cut a very small hole in the corner and squeezed ‘noodles’ all over the frosted cupcakes ( I was nursing the baby and didn’t get a picture before the kids started adding meatballs).
For the meatballs we opened the hazelnut chocolates, tossed them with strawberry preserves 
and spooned one onto each cupcake.
For the finishing touch we finely grated some white chocolate and sprinkled over the top of the ‘spaghetti and meatballs’. Next we topped each plate of ‘spaghetti’ with birthday candles and served to the best husband/daddy in the world.
These cupcakes are SUPER easy and the children (9 and younger) were able to do everything with only minimal supervision.
This post is linked to Cupcake Tuesday at Hoosier Homemade.
Happy Birthday, Mark. I’m very grateful to be able to grow OLD with you. ♥
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Hi, I'm Kimberly. 
Love these! What a great photo of your Hubby too!
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Wow! That is so creative! It sounds delicious!
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They did such a good job! The picture really fooled me…looks just like spaghetti!
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These would be great for those April Fool’s Day cute trick desserts.
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oh my these are too cute I am so trying these out, thanks…
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all my daughter and I keep saying as we look at this is “ahhhhhhh chocolate….ahhhhhhh frosting…..ahhhhhhh yummmmmm”. thanks for sharing!
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Those are sooo cute, and I bet yummy too! Thanks for sharing!!
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Those turned out great! I’ll have to try this out!
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Wow, those look awesome! I really did think it was spaghetti and meatballs from the first photo. Great job!
Stopping over from Blog Frog!
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I love these! What a fun idea!
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I checked this book out earlier this year and made these for my son’s b-day. LOVE this book!
http://jordanfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-birthday-to-jeremiah.html
Have you seen the new one?
http://www.hellocupcakebook.com/
We look forward to trying some more of them….they are so easy, but look great!
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Cute! That may be the funniest set of cupcakes I’ve ever seen! (and I may have to do that for my husband’s upcoming birthday!!) Too cute!
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Oh Kimberly, those turned out great! And what fun for the kids to do for their Daddy’s bday!
Thanks so much for sharing them on Cupake Tuesday!
I hope you can join us for the Cupcake Challenge next month! It’s gonna be a blast!!
~Liz
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LOVE the Cupcakes!! Looked wonderful!! Master chefs in your house!!
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I love this! My kids and I will be making these soon! They are 6, 4, 2 (and six months, but she’s no help in the kitchen!
But my 3 older one’s will LOVE it! Thanks for sharing!
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I made these for MY hubby for our anniversary dinner with the kids last year! They were SUCH a hit! Glad they were with your family too!
The books are amazing and so much fun.
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So Cute…how creative if you!
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These are adorable!!
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Oh my goodness! How cute is that! They really look like spaghetti and meatballs!
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Too cute! I’ll have to make these with my daughter soon!
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Hello from Denmark
*LOL* I actually thought that this was a OAMC recipe for Spaghetti and Meatball when i saw the picture. These cakes look so real
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I made these for my 11 year old’s Birthday becasue he refuses to eat spegehtti and meatballs. It was a huge hit and very funny to see him actually enjoying spegehtti and meatballs for the first time ever! Thanks so much–this was so much fun. All the brothers and sisters help make it and we suprised him. They got a big kick out of it!
Raylene
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These are darling! Amazing! Please share your recipe with our readers by linking it up at Muffin and Cupcake Monday. Thanks!
http://www.talkingdollarsandcents.net/caramel-pudding-muffins
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so cute! we have made these a few times as well–we have the “Hello Cupcake” book, and it is always a hit. I did find that the second time i made it, i used a bag of macaroon cookies instead of the Rocher chocolates. MUCH CHEAPER and they looked the same since the cookies are slightly browned.
cheers!
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