Check out these rockin’ cupcakes we made yesterday for my son’s preschool class! They are choco-rock cupcakes with chocolate dirt and gummy worms. My son couldn’t wait to bring them to school, especially after a weekend of digging up real worms and rocks in the yard.
- Cake mix, and all ingredients to make cupcakes
- Chocolate frosting
- Chocolate cookies, crumbled (we used Cat Chocolate Cookies from Trader Joes)
- Choco-rocks (chocolate rocks) – buy in bulk from Winco for about $4/lb
- Gummy worms
- Make your cupcakes ahead of time and cool
- Frost with a layer of chocolate frosting
- Create a little scene with choco-rocks, dirt (crumbled cookies) and gummy worms
I made the little “you rock” signs by cutting squares of rock scrapbook paper (available at JoAnns or Michaels). Glue to the same size square in black cardstock with a toothpick in between both papers. I cut little circles out of Avery file folder labels and wrote “you rock” with a magic marker. Stick the labels on your signs. I also colored the labels with a gray crayon to try and make them look like rocks.
I also think they would be cool to just cover in the choco-rocks, leaving out the worms and dirt. But this is a four-year-olds dream – chocolate, rocks, worms, dirt. . . so we went with it. I also liked that my son could decorate these on his own – there was not a finite detail or pickiness needed – you couldn’t really mess them up.
My son intently decorates his cupcakes. Fresh out of the bath, he didn’t waste any time getting chocolate frosting on his face. That’s a sign of a good cupcake. . . and delicious memories!
We hope you enjoy these as much as we did! How do you like to decorate your cupcakes?
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