Fur-rocious Lion Cupcakes

Instructions

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1. - Bake cupcakes. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cupcakes in white baking cups.
2. -

   Tint icing. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe instructions. Tint icing medium brown using color combination provided. Combine Brown and Red-Red icing colors to get medium brown color shown.

   Thin chocolate decorator icing to medium consistency using small amount of water or milk.

3. -

   Decorate cupcakes. Using spatula, ice tops of cupcakes smooth using medium brown icing. Reserve remaining icing.

   Prepare decorating bag with coupler, tip 3 and remaining medium brown icing. Prepare second decorating bag with coupler, tip 233 and medium consistency chocolate icing.

   Using chocolate icing with tip 233, use pull-out technique to pipe fur around outside edge of cupcakes.

   Using medium brown icing with tip 3, use dot technique to pipe ears.

   Switch chocolate icing bag to tip 2; pipe eyes and nose on each cupcake. Switch to tip 1; pipe whiskers.