Cupcake Kebab

I was asked to make some sweet treats for a kids camping party. I don't think there is any better treat for kids than cupcakes: they are made for kids!!! (as much as we adults love them) The bite-size, the colors, the decorations, all scream: "cupcakes & kids!" So making the cupcakes a little bit more special and even more kiddie-like, I followed the newest trend in cupcakes: Cupcake Kebab! I credit this idea entirely from Cupcakes Take The Cake, a fantastic cupcake-blog. I wanted to take some pictures of the kids eating the Cupcake Kebab, but the kebabs were gone within a minute, leaving me no time to get my camera out.

Yellow Cupcakes recipe: Martha Stewart - Everyday Food

Ingredients: (makes about 14)
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs

Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C.
- Butter the cups of a standard (12-cup) muffin tin.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
- In a liquid-measuring cup, mix milk and vanilla; set aside.
- In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- With mixer on low speed, add half of dry ingredients, followed by milk-vanilla mixture, then remaining dry ingredients. Do not overmix.
- Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin cups (a 2-ounce or ¼-cup ice-cream scoop is good for this).
- Place tin on a rimmed baking sheet; bake until a toothpick inserted in center of a cupcake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
- Cool cupcakes 5 minutes in tin, then remove and cool completely on a rack before icing.

Buttercream Icing recipe: my own

Ingredients: (if using a piping bag to frost the cupcakes, this is enough frosting for about 6 cupcakes)
- 1 cup confectionars' sugar
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 tablespoons milk
- 3 drops of food coloring

Instructions:
- Sift the confectionars's sugar into a medium bowl.
- Add the softened butter, milk, vanilla and food coloring.
- Mix until the frosting has a slight dropping consistency.


I suppose you can use any cupcake flavor you like. I used Martha Stewart's yellow cupcakes.

Pastel-colored marshmallows. Oh and they're sugar-coated :D! I also used some colorful liquorice.

My first kebab. Here's what I did: I greased the wooden pick with olive oil after each candy addition. That made it sooo much easier sliding the candy down.

11 candy kebabs for 11 kids.

I decorated the cupcakes just very simple; pink & blue buttercream frosting with some colored sprinkles. It was too hot in my kitchen to do anything else.

Candy kebabs + cupcakes = cupcake kebabs!!!