Cactus Cupcakes

Method

• Step 1
  Bake a batch of your favourite cupcakes.
• Step 2
  While they're cooking, put the biscuits into a mini food processor and process until they are fine crumbs.
• Step 3
  Now get your buttercream icing and reserve about one quarter of it. To the remaining 3/4 add a few drops of green food colouring until you get the desired shade of 'cactus' green.
• Step 4
  When your cupcakes are cooked and cooled, it's time to decorate.
• Step 5
  Put the biscuit crumbs on a small plate. Spread a thin layer of white icing onto each cupcake. Dip each cupcake face down into the crumbs to create the 'cactus dirt' topping for each cupcake.
• Step 6
  Now snap off a 3cm section of raw spaghetti noodle and use it as a spike to attach one single marshmallow to the top of one cupcake. Do this with six of the cupcakes. With the other six, make a spike of two marshmallows, one on top of the other.
• Step 7
  Put the green icing into a piping bag with a star shaped nozzle on it. Starting with the single marshmallow cupcakes, pipe small spikes of icing all over to create a mini cactus.
• Step 8
  For the double level marshmallows, spread a layer of green icing over the two marshmallows using a small palette knife. Smooth it as best you can. Then use a skewer or toothpick to draw vertical lines on the cactus.
• Step 9
  Top all your cactuses with a little pink cactus flower.