If you are looking for a quick and easy way to make cute monkey cupcakes, you are in the right place. These cupcakes are easy easy enough to decorate that the kids can help.
Parties are always so much more fun when cute cupcakes are involved. These monkey cupcakes are perfect for all sorts of themes, think a zoo party, monkey party, Curious George party and more.
You can use any flavor cupcake you want, but we like using banana cupcakes. They go with the monkey theme and they taste great with the chocolate frosting.
Why We Created These Cupcakes
My little monkey had a birthday! He had a monkey lovie that he needed to sleep for the longest time.
He accidentally left it at MiMi and Pops once and it caused dad to make a panicked late night run to track him down. Then we went through a phase where it even had to go to daycare with him.
We accidentally left him there once too. Some of the older kids hid him while Little Dude was out of the room and he came home without him.
After some tears, he finally went to sleep. Ever since, monkey doesn’t leave the living room.
We don’t want to risk leaving him anywhere, even upstairs apparently!
Between his love of monkey and his penchant for an occasional Curious George video (the man in the yellow hat must be the most patient soul out there, am I right?!
The first time I came home to tomatoes on the wall or 100 dozen donuts it would be the end… ok, maybe not the hundred dozen donuts part! That may be cause for celebration!
I just knew we needed monkey cupcakes. Of course we didn’t need monkey cupcakes for a pirate party, but I knew they would be just perfect for daycare. They all know his love of monkey and who doesn’t love cupcakes?
Of course a monkey cupcakes should be full of bananas. A little chocolate frosting never hurt a thing either. Little Dude loved them and he said the other kids did too.
He is just the sweetest little guy! The Sweetened Condensed Milk Buttercream was such a hit, I wanted to give a chocolate version a try.
Not to shabby! I made mine pretty thick so it would hold on the cookies and hold up to the trip to daycare without me having to worry about them.
You could certainly thin it a bit by adding another little bit of sweetened condensed milk or a tablespoon of regular milk.
Monkey Cupcakes
Equipment
Ingredients
- 24 banana cupcakes or your favorite cupcakes
- 1 recipe chocolate sweetened condensed milk frosting
- 24 large vanilla wafers
- 48 mini vanilla wafers
- 48 candy eyes
- black frosting gel
Instructions
- Frost cupcakes with plenty of chocolate frosting.24 banana cupcakes, 1 recipe chocolate sweetened condensed milk frosting
- Place on large vanilla wafer for the monkey’s face.24 large vanilla wafers
- Position two minis for ears and a couple of eyes.48 mini vanilla wafers, 48 candy eyes
- Use the frosting to make a smile and a couple of nostrils and voila! your monkey is born!black frosting gel