Tall Monster Cupcakes With Eyes

• Take a cooled cupcake, place a small amount of frosting in the middle and place a miniature cupcake upside down on top of the frosting. Cover the entire miniature cupcake and the top of the main cupcake with frosting. Use piping bags with decorative tips to create feathered, furry or stringy effects. Take two small, round lollipops, unwrap them and slip on two gummy peach ring candies to form eye shapes. Put a dab of frosting in the middle of each lollipop to hold a small, round piece of candy for the pupil. Carefully insert the lollipops into the top of the cupcake. The result is a furry monster cupcake with googly eyes.
  
  

Caterpillar Effect

• Line up one or more rows of cupcakes to create one large monster cupcake that looks like a caterpillar or perhaps a Chinese dragon. Designate one large cupcake or a couple of smaller cupcakes for the head. Decorate the head with candies or icing to give it a ferocious appearance. You can use candy corn as spikes or licorice whips as tentacles on all of the cupcakes that make up the body. You can also use small round candies as spots. Make sure your cupcakes are assembled in monster form when you present them, or they will just look like regular decorated pastries.
  
  

Octopus Monsters

• Octopuses have a monstrous appearance. Cover a cupcake with icing and insert a large, round lollipop into the center. Lay gummy worms on the cupcake so that they appear to come out of the lollipop. You may have to cut the worms so that they fit or so the octopus monster looks more realistic. Put two or more small dollops of icing at the base of the lollipop. These will be the eyes. Add miniature chocolate chips to the center of the icing dots for pupils.
  
  

Marshmallow Monsters

• Cover the top of a cupcake with icing. Press in three or four small marshmallows along the bottom edge. These will be the teeth. Press in one large marshmallow and one small marshmallow for the eyes. Add icing or melted chocolate for the pupils. You can also cut a piece of taffy or gummy tape into a semi-circle to make eyelids. The end result is a grinning, goofy monster.