Whether you're planning a St. Patrick's Day party or just want to celebrate with the family, these fun Leprechaun Hat Cupcakes are sure to be a hit! The Leprechaun Hat Cupcake Wrappers are super simple and they really dress up your cupcakes to make them special for St. Patrick's Day.

Ingredients

• jumbo cupcake pan
• your favorite cake mix or recipe
• jumbo cupcake wrappers
• your favorite buttercream frosting (enough to ice all of your cupcakes)
• green candy/chocolate melts

• shamrock chocolate mold
• green food coloring
• Leprechaun Hat Wrap (instructions here)
• large star cake decorating tip
• decorating bag for the frosting

Instructions

1. Bake your cupcakes according to the package or recipe directions. You may need to add a minute or two to your baking time if you're making jumbo cupcakes.

2. While the cupcakes are baking, melt your green candy/chocolate melts according to the package directions.

3. 

   Put the melted chocolate in a decorator bag, or squirt bottle and use the bag or bottle to fill shamrock shape chocolate molds. You can also melt some white chocolate and swirl the white and green chocolate together.

4. Set your chocolates aside to cool.

5. Color the buttercream frosting with green food coloring, until you get the shade you'd like. Remember that icing always gets a little darker as it dries.

6. 

   Once your cupcakes are baked and cooled, ice them using a star decorating tip and decorator bag. Put the icing in the decorator bag with the tip on it, and swirl the icing around the cupcake top from the outside to the center.

7. Once your chocolates are cool and hardened, place a chocolate shamrock on top of each cupcake and set your cupcakes aside while you make your Leprechaun Hat Cupcake Wrappers (instructions here).

Tips

• I use a chocolate mold to make the shamrock for the top of the cupcake, but you can substitute a cookie cutter and rolled fondant to make your shamrock, if you'd like.
• If you don't want to make the chocolate shamrocks, buy candy shamrocks at the store to top your cupcakes.