Teddy-at-the-Beach Cupcakes

box cake mix (any flavor)

Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

drops blue food color

cup whipped vanilla frosting

roll (from 4.5-oz box) chewy fruit snack (any flavor)

1/2

cup teddy bear-shaped graham snacks, crushed, or brown sugar

tablespoon blue sugar or edible glitter, if desired

teddy bear-shaped graham snacks

paper drink umbrellas or small plastic umbrellas, if desired

ring-shaped gummy candies

multi-colored fish-shaped crackers

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Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Tightly wrap 12 cupcakes; freeze for a later use.
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Stir blue food color into frosting until blended. Frost remaining 12 cupcakes with frosting.
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Cut six 1 1/2-inch pieces from fruit snack roll; peel off paper backing. Use fruit snack and remaining ingredients to decorate cupcakes as shown in photo or as desired.

If you have decorating icing (in 4.25-oz tubes), use the writing tip to pipe swimsuits on the bears.
If you have only one pan and a recipe calls for more cupcakes than your pan will make, cover and refrigerate the rest of the batter while baking the first batch. Cool the pan about 15 minutes, then bake the rest of the batter, adding 1 to 2 minutes to the bake time.

Nutrition Information

0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;

1 1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.