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  • 24servings
  • 20minutes
  • 178calories

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Ingredients Jump to Instructions ↓

  1. 24 cupcakes, premade

  2. 1 (14 ounce) bag flaked coconut

  3. 1 (16 ounce) container chocolate frosting (or caramel frosting)

  4. 96 pieces thin black licorice (approx 3/4-inch)

  5. 48 small white gumdrops

  6. 48 brown miniature M&M's chocolate candies (or brown reeses pieces)

  7. pink icing

Instructions Jump to Ingredients ↑

  1. Preheat oven to 325.

  2. Toast coconut on a cookie sheet in a single layer for 6-10 minutes until lightly brown (stir coconut every 2-3 minutes while toasting).

  3. Frost cupcakes with frosting.

  4. Roll edges of cupcake in toasted coconut to make the lion's "mane".

  5. Place 2 gum drops side by side in the lower/middle of the cupcake.

  6. Place 2 licorice "whiskers" on each side tucked partially under the gum drops to adhere.

  7. Place 2 m&m "eyes" above the gumdrops.

  8. Place a dab of pink icing below eyes and above the gumdrops to make the "nose".

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