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Cupcake Recipes, Kids Birthday Party Recipes · May 8, 2018

Super Mario Cupcakes

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These Super Mario Cupcakes will be the talk of the party! Surprisingly easy to make, you will be asked to make these fun cupcakes over and over again!

overhead view of two super mario cupcakes with super mario trinkets around

Do you know a Super Mario fan? It doesn’t have to be a child; there are plenty of adults out there who love Super Mario – you know who you are! Well friends, I’m back with another easy boxed-cake mix cupcake recipe that will totally delight Super Mario fans young and old alike.

Why You’ll Love Super Mario Cupcakes

In this recipe we turn plain boxed-mix cupcakes into super fun, Super Mario Cupcakes by adding some colorful frosting, a few white candy melts, and store-bought fondant. These Super Mario Cupcakes will no doubt level up the fun at your next game night or birthday party!

This Super Mario Cupcakes recipe is perfect for getting little people involved, too. My kids love mixing food coloring into anything, for starters. We used red for these, but you could easily use green or blue or all three colors to make your Super Mario Cupcakes (just don’t mix them together because there are no brown mushrooms in Super Mario, y’all). While we waited for the cupcakes to bake and cool we played a very silly game of Pin the Mustache on Mario using some very rudimentary Mario and mustache drawings we quickly drew up. We also used tape because who gives children pins and then blindfolds them? (Hint: not me.)

When it’s time to decorate your Super Mario Cupcakes, there’s a cupcake task for every level of helper. Kids (and even decorating-challenged adults) can mix, frost, place the white candy melt dots, form the stars, or just add the ridiculously cute and expressive star eyes. Adding eyes to the stars had us all in stitches. There was a lot of “aww-ing” and giggling happening around our table, and a few very disproportionate eyes on our stars, which just added to the fun.

Whatever the occasion, game night, birthday party, or just a rainy Tuesday, these Super Mario Cupcakes are sure to bring on the fun and score big with your Super Mario fans!

close up of mario cupcakes with white chocolate disc and yellow star

How to Make Super Mario Cupcakes

Step #1: Prepare cupcakes according to cake mix directions and cool on a rack.

Tip: To save time, you can purchase pre-baked, plain cupcakes.

cupcakes, white chocolate in bowl, icing, butter and red food coloring on a white surface

Step #2: Using an electric mixer, start mixing your butter and sugar. Add milk and continue mixing on medium-high speed. Add cocoa powder and mix until you achieve semi-stiff peaks.

Tip: You may need to add milk and/or powdered sugar, one tablespoon at a time to achieve your desired consistency.

Step #3: Add red gel food coloring to your buttercream and mix some more.

stainless bowl with red food coloring mixed in icing with spatula for making mario cupcakes

Step #4: Using an offset spatula, frost each one of your cupcakes with red buttercream. Add white candy melts – they will act as the mushroom’s “spots.”

Tip: Cut some of the white candies in half so that you can put them on the edge of the cupcake.

mario cupcakes with red icing on cooling rack

Step #5: Shape your yellow fondant into 3D stars and with the help of a toothpick, draw two eyes with black icing. Make enough so that you could place one on each cupcake.

small yellow starts with mario cupcakes in background with red icing on a cooling rack

Let the games begin!

super mario cupcakes on a marble surface and nintendo props

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Super Mario Cupcakes

Super Mario Cupcakes will be the talk of the party! Surprisingly easy to make, you will be asked to make these over and over again!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword birthday, bros, cupcake, mario, nintendo, super, super mario brothers
Prep Time 25 minutes minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes minutes
Total Time 45 minutes minutes
Servings 24 people
Author Michelle

Ingredients

  • 1 box of vanilla cake mix and all ingredients required to make it
  • 2 sticks butter softened
  • 5 cups powdered sugar
  • 1.5 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 4 tbsp milk
  • Red gel food coloring about 2-3 tsp
  • 1 cup white candy melts
  • Store-bought yellow cake fondant about 8 to 10 oz.
  • Ready-made black icing

Instructions

  • Prepare cupcakes according to cake mix directions and cool on a rack.
  • Using an electric mixer, start mixing your butter and sugar. Add milk and continue mixing on medium-high speed. Add cocoa powder and mix until you achieve semi-stiff peaks (you may need to add milk and/or powdered sugar, one tablespoon at a time to achieve your desired consistency).
  • Add red gel food coloring to your buttercream and mix some more.
  • Using an offset spatula, frost each one of your cupcakes with red buttercream. Add white candy melts – they will act as the mushroom’s “spots.” (Hint: Cut some of the white candies in half so that you can put them on the edge of the cupcake)
  • Shape your yellow fondant into 3D stars and with the help of a toothpick, draw two eyes with black icing. Make enough so that you could place one on each cupcake.
  • Let the games begin!

Nutrition

Calories: 200kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 155mg | Potassium: 21mg | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 5IU | Calcium: 50mg | Iron: 0.5mg
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