Sesame Street Cupcakes (starring Big Bird)

He’s an oversized bird that talks and sports a fashionable bright yellow coat. He really is one of a kind!

He’s got buggy eyes and striped legs, yet despite all of this, we all love him. Big bird was the initial star of the popular children’s show, Sesame Street, and now he’s just had his second big break…on cupcakes!

These Sesame Street cupcakes, or Big Bird cupcakes, look so cute; they’re practically a self-portrait of our giant feathered friend.

In addition to the uncanny similarities, these cupcakes are incredibly easy to make! Here let me show you how to create your own Sesame Street Cupcakes with Big Bird!

Ingredients:

• Premade Cupcakes
• Yellow Royal Icing
• White Royal Icing
• Chocolate Chips
• Blue Sprinkles

Directions:

1) Fill a pastry bag, with the Grass Tip on the end, with yellow icing. Make short choppy motions to create short fur for Big Bird.

2) For the eves, pipe small circles towards the center of the cupcake and put them close together.

3) Add the pupils by pressing chocolate chips upside down into the eyes, until level with the frosting. Add a couple sprinkles for eye lashes and you’re good to go!

4) Lastly, for the classic Big Bird nose, pipe out some yellow icing with a regular round tip. You can do this by starting with a triangle in the middle of the cupcake. Fill in the initial triangle with a lighter layer of icing along the interior of the triangle. Finally… tada, you’re done!

Of course everyone loves Sesame Street; the whole gang, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Burt, Ernie, Oscar. Despite all this communal love, the love for Big Bird is always the most for he is the face of Sesame Street. With these Sesame Street cupcakes you can express that Big Bird love in a big, big way!

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

C is for cookie… that’s good enough for me. In fact, it’s good enough for most people, but for those who love cupcakes as well, take a look here.

These adorable cookie monster cupcakes capture the lovable Sesame Street sweets lover at his most vulnerable hour—with a cookie right in his mouth!

These creative cupcakes are great for a child’s birthday or other special occasion. I especially like these cookie monster Sesame Street cupcakes because I used to love Cookie Monster.

Nowadays, there is talk of Cookie Monster eating healthy and such monstrosities like that, so it’s good to see that Cookie Monster still likes to enjoy an enormous cookie every now and then. But then again, don’t we all?

Ingredients:

• Premade Cupcakes
• Blue Sprinkles
• White Royal Icing
• Miniature Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Chocolate Chips or Black Icing

Directions:

1) Frost your cupcakes with your white icing. If you want Cookie Monster to look “extra” blue, tint some of the white frosting with blue food coloring. Be sure to keep the frosting as smooth as you can.

2) Grab a handful of blue sprinkles and lightly press them to the cupcake, being sure to cover all portions where icing is visible.

3) For the eyes, take a dollop of white icing and place them in the appropriate places. For pupils, you can use many different techniques. I’ve found that just a tiny dot of black icing works well, but feel free to use chocolate chips, raisins, etc. in order to give Cookie Monster some depth and personality. Have fun!

4) As a finishing touch, cut a small chocolate chip cookie into halves and press a half into the spot on the cupcake when a mouth would usually be. If you find the cookies too hard to cut, just shove the whole cookie into the cupcake. After all, that’s how Cookie Monster would do it!

After your Sesame Street cupcakes are complete, there is not much left to do, but enjoy. The only problem is, with Cookie Monster looking so cute, it may be hard to bite into the little guy, but you’re just going to have to try your best because he sure is tasty!

Recent Outbreak in Childhood Depression

Ok, so it may not be a real depression, but now that the beloved Cookie Monster has taken an oath for healthy eating… the reality is certainly coming. The furry little guy who used to sing “C is for cookie” is now sining what? C is for celery?

With the new rise in childhood obesity rates, many popular television shows are making a change. Everyone’s favorite cookie loving creature with the blue fur is shocking everyone as he now sports a healthier diet.

On the popular television show Sesame Street, the scruffy Cookie monster has cut down on his chocolate chip cookie addiction and although withdrawal is a serious concern for Cookie Monster, he is trying to be a little healthier.

The fuzzy monster has even devised a new song to promote his new lease on life, “A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food.” In this cheery tune, Cookie Monster learns about how there are “anytime” foods and “sometimes” foods. Unfortunately for all of us, Cookie Monster had learned that cookies are, indeed, a sometimes food.

While this is great for the GROWING next generation, it brings up the many questions from the older fans that grew up with Cookie Monster living a life of no limitations! Sesame Street’s new plan, “Healthy Habits for Life”, is a great influence on children and impacts the food that they put in their mouth.

“With the rise in childhood obesity, Sesame Street VP of Research and Education, Dr. Rosemarie Truglio said, “Sesame Street” is concentrating on the need to teach children about healthy foods and physical activity.” The show is even going as far as to provide health tips at the beginning of each show.

They go on to say that Sesame is about good lifestyles, and not just the ever consistent numbers and letters. Obesity is a big problem with children today and even Cooke Monster is willing to adapt to these changes.

After all, at the end of Cookie Monster’s song where he learns about cookies being a sometimes food, he asks if sometimes is now. He is replied with a simple “yes” and gobbles a cookie down.

So cookies may be decreasing in the world of Sesame Street, but they’re not gone for good. In a world, ruled by Muppets and string puppets, there is still room for a cookie here and there!