Mon's 1upcake Cupcakes Tutorial

Featuring Mon, Sharmycakes, and Nakubu

The 1upcake (pronounced one-UP-cake) is a cupcake fashioned to look like a Mario brothers 1up mushroom. Iconic in its vibrant green coloration and its power to grant the player an extra life, the 1up mushroom is perhaps the most coveted of all mushrooms.  Here’s a recipe to make your cupcake, or 1upcake, the most coveted of all baked goods. 

YOU WILL NEED

The X-ed out ingredients are for a future project...

Cupcake mix (read box for required ingredients and baking tools)

White frosting

Green icing

White icing

Black icing

Icing tube nibs

Cupcake tin

Cupcake baking cups

STEPS

1. Prepare the cupcakes according to the package instructions

Before the apron

After the apron

2. Let the cupcakes cool fully
3. Once they are completely cool, apply frosting as smooth and flat as possible

Make sure they're cold or the icing will melt!

4. Place the frosted cupcakes in the freezer for 15 minutes
5. Once the cupcakes are cold, take them out of the freezer and prepare your icing tubes with the appropriate nib



Mon = Awesome

6. Fill in the green section of the 1up first

7. Fill in the white second
8. Outline the black third

Close-up of Mon's 1upcake

9. Continue until you can no longer feel your fingers

The ghetto ones are mine.

10. Eat until you reach 1up status

OM NOM NOM

The End!