Harry Potter and Owl Cupcakes

In my previous post I shared a tutorial for the Harry Potter cake I made for my son's birthday party, (you can check that out here)

I knew I wanted to have some cupcakes for the kids as well, and owl ones seemed perfect for this theme.

Plus, I've seen pictures of owl cupcakes on Pinterest for years, so I was excited to finally make some of my own! :)

I learned a few things through the process, so I put together a quick tutorial for you.

To start out, I made 24 cupcakes from my yellow cupcake recipe (you can find that here).

After the cupcakes completely cooled I started frosting them.

I just used plain white frosting from the container...I think it was Pillsbury.

I had some snack-packs of Oreo's on hand and wanted to use them up, so to start I opened all of the packs.

I planned on making more of the owl cupcakes, but for some reason I didn't realize I would need to cookies per cupcake...so there's my first tip. Two cookies per cupcake.

Separate the cookies...that might take some talent to get all of the filling on one side :)

And discard (or eat!) the cookie side without any of the filling.

For my Harry Potter cake I had tinted some frosting yellow and I had some left over, so I used that to 'glue on' the Oreo cookies.

I just put a dab of frosting on the edge of the cookie, 

and then pressed that down onto the cupcake.

Another tip I learned is that the Oreo cookies stay better on cupcakes that have more of a flat top.

Do the same with the other cookie to make the eyes, and then I added some yellow frosting for the beak.

I was going to let the yellow frosting harden and then smooth out the beak a little bit, but I ended up liking the way it looked and just left them.

I then used some black frosting to give the owls some pupils.

You can also use M&M's, or chocolate chips, or whatever ingenious idea you come up with!

Like I said before, I was planning on making more owls but I had to come up with another plan.

I was also running out of time because I had a sick 3 year old that day who just wanted to snuggle.

So, quick and easy was my motive!

I ended up using the black frosting to create a Harry Potter cupcake.

Just two small circles for the glasses, a little arch to connect them, and then the scar, and that's it!

They turned out pretty good if I do say so myself :)

Thanks for reading and let me know if you have any questions!