King Cake Cupcakes

 

 King Cake Cupcakes 

Ingredients:

• Cake mix, plus ingredients to prepare the mix
• Cinnamon, about 2 tsps
• Vanilla wafers
• White icing
• purple, yellow and green sprinkles

Directions: 

1. Prepare cake mix as directed. Add cinnamon to mix.

2. Cook cupcakes as directed on package.

3. After cupcakes are cooled, spread icing over them.

4. For each cupcake, take a vanilla wafer and pipe a circle of icing around the outer edge. Sprinkle one third of the cookie with green sprinkles, one third with purple and the remaining third with yellow. Using a dab of icing, stick a kingcake baby (or the little baby decorations for baby showers if you don't have access to king cake babies) in the center of the cookie. Stick the wafer on top of the cupcake.

This is great if you do not have access to King Cakes, do not know how to make them, or want the flavor without breaking the rule of "no king cake after Mardi Gras".

This post first appeared on my other blog, The Italian Bella Diaries.