Taco Cupcakes for Cinco De Mayo
Get ready for Cinco De Mayo with these fun, tasty and cute Taco Cupcakes for Cinco De Mayo!
Servings 13
Ingredients
- 2 to 3 Cup(s) vanilla frosting
- 24 Nilla Wafers 2 for each cupcake
- Yellow sprinkles
- Green frosting
- Red Mini M&Ms
- Large open star tip Wilton 1M Open Star Piping Tip
- Piping bag
- Cupcake liners
Instructions
- Pipe frosting over each cupcake in a circular direction working from the outer edge of the cupcake towards the center.
- Gently crumble one cupcake into pieces. Set aside.
- Place two Nilla Wafers into the top of each cupcake, pressing down into the cupcake at an angle to resemble a taco shell.
- Inside the Nilla Wafer, add about 1 teaspoon crumbled cupcake.
- Over the crumbled cupcake (taco meat), decorate with green icing to create the look of lettuce.
- Top the “lettuce” with yellow jimmies (cheese) and red Mini M&Ms (tomato)
Notes
For these cupcakes, I used Wilton frosting with the leaf tip, similar to Wilton Tip 67
