35 Appetizing Mickey Mouse Cupcakes You Will Love

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A Few Words About Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

What better way to liven up your celebration than baking Mickey Mouse cupcakes? We’ve got some of the best ideas on the internet on our list, from buttercream cupcakes, to wonderful cupcake toppers you can customize.

Mickey Mouse has been in our hearts for decades thanks to his innocence, playfulness, and bravery. This anthropomorphic mouse is now a favorite for many generations, young and old.

If you’re a newbie baker worried about your skills, these tutorials will give you detailed instructions to make you feel like an expert. Try one of our recipes, and let us know how it goes!

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Cupcakes are a simpler and quicker substitute for a full-blown cake, and Mickey Mouse cupcakes are always the right way to give your guests the best party favors they ever imagined.

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Perfect Mickey Mouse Birthday Cupcakes

If you’re looking for perfect Mickey Mouse cupcake ideas, these simple and wonderful cupcakes are the perfect companion for a Disney celebration at any age. These cupcakes are deceptively impressive when it’s actually quite simple to bake.

The base cupcake is a basic vanilla sponge cake recipe, topped with red frosting and melted candy shaped like Mickey’s head. The base cupcake can easily be made from a cake box you can get from the store.

Then prepare the frosting by mixing a little bit of red food coloring into your buttercream. Lastly, prepare Mickey-shaped candy melts by drawing Mickey’s head onto a baking paper, turning it around, and tracing it using the candy melts.

Calories per Serving: 173
Total preparation time: 28 minutes

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Rainbow Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Who wouldn’t love these Mickey Mouse birthday cupcakes? These cupcakes are made from chocolate base cake, topped with rainbow-tinted buttercream and chocolate rounds. One look at these wonderfully vibrant desserts, and your kids will fall in love immediately.

Start by creating the base cupcake from chocolate sponge cake, but if you’re not into chocolate, this can be changed into vanilla sponge cakes. The hard part comes when you’re mixing the different colored buttercream.

Make sure you line them up and do not over-mix them. Otherwise, they’ll have muddy colors instead of a vibrant rainbow. Lastly, create Mickey’s ears by shaping melted chocolate into circles. 

Total preparation time: 1 hour

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Christmas Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Are you in the mood for the holiday season? Why not try making these cute Mickey Mouse Santa Cupcakes? These Mickey Mouse-themed cupcakes are also adorned with Christmas elements, making them super festive and appropriate for your family’s holiday gathering.

The cupcakes are made with base chocolate cake, then topped with red and white buttercream, round chocolate as Mickey’s ears, and a candy mistletoe. Use Christmas-themed cupcake wrappers to take this Mickey Mouse design to the next level.

Here’s an idea for customization – why not switch the chocolate base cupcake with red velvet and make it even more delicious?

Total preparation time: 36 minutes

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Easy Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

This is an easy Mickey Mouse cupcakes decorating idea, which the maker even dubbed as a recipe that you can make with your kids in just a few minutes.

You make these Mickey Mouse theme cupcakes by creating the base chocolate cupcakes, topping it off with some vanilla buttercream, mini Oreo ears, and then adorning the sides with some yellow buttons.

To keep with the theme, don’t forget to use red cupcake wrappers as well so that it looks like Mickey’s pants. The maker used real yellow buttons that are inedible, but you can make these into toddler-friendly cupcakes by switching those out with some yellow M&M’s instead.

Calories per Serving: 474
Total preparation time: 50 minutes

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes with Surprise Mickey Inside

In this super cute recipe, you will be creating something that your guests will talk about for days after the party. These cupcakes are not just your regular Mickey Mouse cupcakes. These are Mickey Mouse cupcakes with a surprise inside.

From the outside, it looks like a normal Mickey Mouse cupcake, but when you cut into the vanilla base cake, you’ll find a chocolate Mickey-shaped surprise.

You start by baking the chocolate middle first, which you will crumble and mix with a bit of the vanilla batter to make a thick dough.

Then you will scoop a bit of the vanilla batter into the cupcake tin, put it in the chocolate dough, and cover it with some vanilla batter.

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes with Oreo Ears

If you’re after a simple and easy Mickey Mouse cupcakes recipe, then you’ll love this one. These cute cupcakes are perfect for your next Disney-themed movie marathon snack, and they’re so soft and moist you’ll want to bake them every day of the week after this.

The cupcake is made with black and white cupcake mix, frosting, and Oreos for ears. As we’ve said, the base cupcake used a ready-made cupcake mix, but the buttercream was made with an original recipe by the maker.

After that, you will scoop out Oreo’s filling and use the biscuits to make Mickey’s ears. If you’re feeling creative, why not mix those filling with the buttercream to make a tastier frosting? 

Calories per Serving: 386
Total preparation time: 28 minutes

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes with Cookies and Cream Top

This is a great recipe if you have a boy who’s a big fan of Mickey Mouse. These are Mickey Mouse cupcakes blue-themed, with blue wrappers, chocolate base cake, cookies, cream frosting, and Oreo biscuits as ears. Start by baking the chocolate base cake.

Then you will take out a little bit from the middle to create a divot with some Oreo filling. The filling is made out of frosting, Oreos, and sugar.

After that, top it off with vanilla and Oreo buttercream. This is made by mixing crushed Oreos with vanilla buttercream. Lastly, get the remaining Oreo biscuits to create Mickey Mouse’s ears on the cupcakes.

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Easy Mickey Mouse Cupcakes Design

Here are some awesome Mickey-themed cupcakes that the little ones will love. The best thing is this birthday Mickey Mouse cupcakes are so easy to make. The maker even said that you could just use pre-made cupcakes and add Oreo ears if you don’t have time.

But one of the most important elements is also the cupcake wrappers, which have red and white polka dot patterns. So if you are looking for a shortcut, remember to switch that out too.

Otherwise, you can also follow the tutorial given by the maker and make a vanilla base cake topped with some vanilla buttercream. Simple, quick, and easy – it saves time and makes the kids happy!

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes with Candy Melt Ears

You will get as excited as we are when you see these cupcakes. These cupcakes are a subtle, more muted version of cupcakes Mickey Mouse themed. The cupcake is a basic cake topped with vanilla buttercream, and black candy melts as Mickey’s ears.

What makes this extra special is the sprinkles with Mickey color themes – black, red, and yellow. The maker decided to buy specific Mickey Mouse brand sprinkles, but if you have time, you can buy rainbow sprinkles and separate each color.

Another plus point is that the maker will give you a choice between the chocolate and vanilla base cake.

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Easy Homemade Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Here are some easy Mickey Mouse cupcakes that are perfect for any Disney-themed celebration. If you have a bit of time, you should definitely use this recipe to create special cupcakes.

These are homemade cupcakes and buttercream frosting, meaning this recipe has no cutting-out flavors. The maker thoughtfully gives you different options on how you want to make the base cake as well – she provides recipes for numerous homemade cupcakes, from red velvet to chocolate chip cupcakes.

These are also fondant Mickey Mouse cupcakes since they use them to create the ears and the buttons on Mickey’s pants. 

Total preparation time: 50 minutes

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Red Velvet Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Are you looking for some fabulous dessert ideas for your Disney or Mickey-themed celebration? Or just a casual get-together to watch some Disney movie marathon? Then these fabulous red velvet Mickey Mouse cupcakes are perfect for your party.

These special cupcakes are made with a base red velvet cake, topped with chocolate buttercream, Mickey Mouse sprinkles, and Oreo ears.

One of the highlights of this recipe is the moist and delicious red velvet base cake, so make sure you follow the recipe to achieve the same texture. Aside from that, it will be smooth sailing for you.

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes in Cones

If you’re looking for ideas on how to trick your little ones into eating less ice cream, then this cute little recipe might just be the thing to help you out with that.

These adorable Mickey Mouse cupcakes come inside an ice cream cone, topped with red buttercream, yellow buttons, and some chocolate Mickey Mouse ears.

What’s great about this recipe is that you’ll be baking these cupcakes straight inside the ice cream cones, which means fewer dishes to wash!

All you need to do is fill the cones until ¾ full and bake them. Make sure you use a cupcake tin to hold the cones upright. Otherwise, they can fall inside the oven when baked.

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes Toppers

If you’re looking for simple fondant Mickey Mouse cupcakes and Mickey Mouse Cupcakes topper recipes, then you should see this tutorial showing you how to create the toppers without using any special tools.

They will show you how you can shape and carve it using everyday items. In this tutorial, they used a cookie cutter to cut out the bigger part of Mickey’s head made out of black fondant.

And then they used it again to cut Mickey’s red pants, but they cut them in half. Next, they used the round end of a piping tip to cut Mickey’s ears, but you can use other things, such as a bottle cap.

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes Decoration

If you’re looking for simple cupcake recipes that are still delicious and yummy, then you should try making these cupcakes. This tutorial will not only show you how to create one version of the cupcake, but it will show you two different versions.

They used vanilla base cupcakes for this recipe, but you can switch that with other flavors you prefer because you will be covering the entire top of the cake with sprinkles. After your base cupcake, prepare two bowls filled with sprinkles – one bowl with chocolate sprinkles and one with some red and black sprinkles.

Then spread some chocolate ganache on top of the cupcake and dip it inside one of the bowls. Don’t forget to add the two Oreos as Mickey’s ears.

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Halloween Special Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Are you celebrating Halloween Disney style and want to serve some Disney-themed party favors while at it? Then why not try this Mickey Mouse cupcakes recipe instead? It’s not just your normal Mickey Mouse cupcakes.

They’re Halloween special Mickey Mouse cupcakes. Each cupcake will have some Halloween elements to it, such as bat wings, a witch’s hat, or pumpkins. The cupcake toppers are made with some colored fondants – for this one, you’ll need purple, orange, and black.

Aside from the Halloween elements, you’ll also create Mickey’s ears using fondant. Put them all together by piping some base buttercream first, and you’re done!

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Here’s another cute and simple Mickey Mouse cupcake, and the best thing about this recipe is that you won’t need to create any toppers. You can just buy some regular Oreos and mini Oreos for this one!

The maker also mentions that you should treat this recipe as a template instead of blindly following it. You can customize this recipe as much as you’d like. Try switching out the vanilla base sponge cakes with other flavors, such as strawberries or red velvet.

But she also said to avoid chocolate because it will blend too much with the Oreos, and you won’t have any flavor contrast. You can also use another frosting aside from vanilla buttercream, such as cream cheese.

Calories per Serving: 270
Total preparation time: 1 hour 54 minutes

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Easy Sorcerer Mickey Cupcakes

Every so often, you’d see Mickey wearing his sorcerer gown and hat, and Mickey’s sorcerer hat color scheme inspired this cupcake recipe. That’s why it has blue with white dots, exactly like Mickey’s hat.

What’s even more amazing is that this cupcake is gluten-free and made using simple ingredients inside your kitchen. It turns out that the secret to a moist gluten-free cupcake is using boiling water.

By reading the whole thing, check out more tips and tricks from this recipe! But for those of you who don’t mind gluten, you can change the base cake with a regular cupcake recipe.

Total preparation time: 35 minutes

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4th of July Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

We mentioned that we’re going to inspire you with Mickey Mouse cupcakes for any type of celebration, and here’s a great Mickey Mouse cupcake that you can serve during the Fourth of July celebration with your friends and family. It’s simply a chocolate base cupcake, topped with some vanilla buttercream, Mickey’s ears, and red, white, and blue sprinkles. Mickey’s ears are made using some melted chocolate. You can create them by using a guiding circle that you trace with a chocolate piping bag. Then top the cupcakes off with some red, white, and blue sprinkles that you can easily get from the stores.

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Fantasia Mickey Mouse Blue Cupcakes

This is a cool Mickey Mouse Fantasia-themed cupcakes recipe. Fantasia is a Disney masterpiece created in 1940, where animated imagery is blended with classical music. This is where Mickey also expands his role in the Disney scene, becoming a conductor and sorcerer to the music presented on screen.

That’s why the cupcakes we have here will have Mickey’s blue and white hat color theme. You’ll need red velvet base cupcakes, blue vanilla buttercream, white star-shaped sprinkles, and chocolate rounds.

Start by piping the buttercream onto your base cupcakes, then sprinkle some of the white star-shaped sprinkles, then put on the chocolate rounds to create Mickey’s ears.

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M&M’s Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

If you like Mickey Mouse and M&Ms, we have some good news. Previous cupcake recipes might predominantly use Oreos to create Mickey’s silhouette, but not this one! This particular Mickey Mouse cupcake recipe uses M&Ms to create Mickey’s head and ears.

The key to the success of this recipe is that you’ll be using three different M&Ms – regular, mega, and mini M&Ms. It’s crucial that you get all three since you want to get the dimensions right.

It might be hard to find in regular stores, but if you go to a bigger supermarket, you’ll definitely find all of them. You’ll be using mega M&Ms as Mickey’s center head, regular M&Ms to use as Mickey’s ears, and mini M&Ms to create the boundaries on the edges of the cupcakes.

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Super Cute Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

If you don’t want to choose between M&Ms and Oreos, this cupcake recipe will be perfect. This is the perfect recipe for those who like to get creative with your decorating scheme.

You can use the toppings in many different ways to create Mickey’s silhouette – Oreos and M&Ms, mini Oreos and regular Oreos, sticking in two Oreos as his ears, or even Oreos with additional M&Ms on the center.

All you need to do is prepare the base cupcake with vanilla sponge cakes, then top it off with some buttercream. Afterward, let your kids go loose with the toppings and create their own Mickey heads.

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes with Mickey Head Surprise

Here’s another cupcake recipe for the cute Mickey Mouse cupcakes with a Mickey Mouse surprise inside. Start by preparing three different batches of cupcakes – regular vanilla cupcakes, red vanilla cupcakes, and pink vanilla cupcakes.

Bake the pink and red first inside the oven, and when they’re done, create some pink and red crumble from the cupcakes. Add in a little bit of the vanilla batch to make it shapeable. Create some balls and long rods using the red and pink crumbles.

Add a dollop of the vanilla batch into the cupcake tin, then drop in the ball and wrap the rod on top of the ball. Close it up with vanilla again, and when they’re done baking, top it off with some vanilla buttercream frosting.

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Simple Red Velvet Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

You’ll love this next recipe if you’re a big fan of red velvet. This recipe for wonderful red velvet Mickey Mouse cupcakes and cream cheese topping takes this cupcake to the next level. The result is a super moist Mickey Mouse cupcake everyone will love.

Start by preparing the red velvet cupcakes first using the ingredients she described in the tutorial video, then bake the cupcakes. Then when they’re baking, prepare the frosting ingredients. Gradually add sugar to the frosting.

Remember that you don’t want the frosting to be too sweet since we’re using red velvet cupcakes. Top the cupcakes with the cream cheese frosting and finish with Oreos to make his ears.

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Golden Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

If you’re looking for a different Mickey Mouse cupcake, these cupcakes will give your party more glamor. This is not just a regular Mickey Mouse cupcake. It’s a golden Mickey Mouse cupcake that will glow when you turn off the lights.

To make these cupcakes, you’ll have to arm yourselves with a lot of preparations, though. You need to get mini Nilla wafers, gold Oreos, regular Oreos, gold sprinkles, gold sugar, and a can of edible spray gold.

The base cupcake will be made using vanilla sponge cakes, as you want a simple base for this one.

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Mickey Mouse Themed Cupcakes

This is another fun and easy Mickey Mouse cupcake that you can make at home at the last minute. The maker decided to create these cupcakes to celebrate her son’s first birthday, so it’s a suitable recipe for those looking for birthday party favors.

What’s even more amazing is that this recipe is made entirely out of simple ingredients – you can get it from the shop, and there’s not much work that goes into it.

The cupcakes are made with a box cake mix, the icing is from a can of red icing, and the toppers are made from mini Oreos. Even beginner bakers will find this super easy!

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Banana Mickey Mouse Birthday Cupcakes

If you’re a big fan of bananas and Mickey Mouse, you might want to try this cupcakes recipe. It’s a Mickey Mouse birthday banana cupcake, made to celebrate a special someone’s birthday, and requires little to no cake decorating skills.

So for beginner bakers out there, this is a recipe you will feel comfortable trying. The cupcake itself is very simple, it’s a banana base cupcake made with mashed ripe bananas.

The topping is made from whipped cream, and Mickey’s ears are from banana-flavored biscuits. The result will taste similar to banana bread but more moist and fluffy.

Total preparation time: 40 minutes

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes Tutorial

Here’s a cool-looking Mickey Mouse cupcake made with some fondant toppers, so if you don’t like buttercream or whipped cream, this is one of the recipes you must try. The maker used three different colored fondants – red, white, and black.

She used a bigger and small round cutter to create Mickey’s head, but you can use whatever you have at home to carve the fondant. Why not try cookie cutters and a bottle cap to cut the fondant?

Then she cut the red fondant into half-circle shapes and finally created small circles with the white fondant to make the buttons. Put the toppers onto any base cake of your choice, and your Mickey Mouse cupcakes are ready.

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Quick Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Here’s another simple Mickey Mouse cupcake tutorial. Not only are the toppers special, but the maker also used red velvet cupcakes instead of regular vanilla ones to go with the red theme – a color synonymous with Mickey Mouse.

He then topped off the cupcakes with white and red buttercream. This can be done by inserting a jam into an otherwise all-vanilla buttercream piping bag. Lastly, he topped the cupcakes with Mickey Mouse chocolate.

You can also make the toppers by shaping melted chocolate into a baking sheet with a guiding pencil line – create a Mickey Mouse shape with a pencil, turn it around, then trace it with the chocolate.

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Disney’s Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Here’s a fun Mickey cupcakes tutorial you can create with your little ones. For these Mickey Mouse cupcakes, you can prepare the base cupcakes first.

It’s clear that the maker decided to use vanilla-flavored base cupcakes, but you can switch this flavor with anything you prefer. She then prepared two different buttercream frostings – one was red-colored, and the other was yellow.

Top each cupcake with yellow or red, and then prepare some white buttercream. Dot several white buttercreams onto the red and yellow cupcakes. Then lastly, ask your kids to top the cupcakes off with some Oreos for ears.

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes with Box Cakes

This tutorial shows you how to make your own Mickey Mouse cupcakes using a box cake mix. The makers of the tutorial are actually teenagers, so there’s no doubt that anyone can create this particular recipe.

They started with preparing the base cupcake using a box cake you can get from any store. They decided to use a chocolate sponge cake mix, but you can switch this with any other flavors you prefer.

Then they created the topper using melted chocolate, which you can also easily get from the store. They did not create the buttercream frosting, but you can always grab a can of whipped cream and use that as well.

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Mummies Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

Here’s a cute idea if you’re having a Disney-themed Halloween party. This one is not just regular Mickey Mouse cupcakes – it’s actually a mummy Mickey Mouse cupcake, where Mickey’s eyes will be peeking out of white bandages!


But if you think we can only achieve this look by using fondant, think again. The maker actually uses white buttercream to create the effect.

You should pay close attention to find out what tips are appropriate for the piping bag and how to use them. Other elements on the cupcake are the ears made of mini Oreos and chocolate rounds for the eyes.

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Surprise Inside Mickey Mouse Cupcakes

This is another recipe for Mickey Mouse surprise inside cupcakes. You start exactly the same. Just like the previous surprise inside cupcakes, we have on this list.

Start by preparing the inside cupcakes first – this particular one used chocolate cupcakes. After the chocolate cupcakes are done, you will make a crumble and rehydrate it with some of the vanilla batters.

Create spheres and donut-shaped crumbs, and put them inside the cake tins. Then top it off with more vanilla cupcakes. Bake until it’s done, top it off with some vanilla buttercream, and lastly, a chocolate Mickey Mouse topper.

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See the best selection of Mickey Mouse Cupcake Toppers

Do you already have a base cupcake recipe, and you’re now looking for ways to create your own Mickey Mouse cupcake toppers? Here are some of the best ideas we found that you can easily include in your basic cupcakes.

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Cute Mickey Mouse Cupcakes Toppers

Here’s a super cute Mickey Mouse cupcake topper that’s different from all the others you’d see on the internet. This cupcake topper will look as if Mickey is looking at you. The cupcake topper has the top of Mickey’s head, complete with his eyes and ears.

You’ll be working with some colored fondants and modeling paste. The fondants will be used for Mickey’s eyes and his head, but you’ll be using a mixture of modeling paste with the fondant to create the ears so that they will stand upright.

Overall, the cupcake toppers are very easy to make, just as long as you have the appropriate tools.

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Easy Mickey Mouse Cupcakes Toppers

Here’s a cute little idea for the cupcake toppers as well. For this super simple cake toppers recipe, you’ll only need different colored fondants because most of the elements are two-dimensional and are pasted directly onto the cake.

You should start with using the black-colored fondant to create the basic Mickey head shape – one big circle and two smaller ones. You will then use a cupcake tin with a crinkle cut on the edges to create a red-colored round-shaped base with crinkled edges.

Then cut out half a circle using red fondant, and top it off with two smaller yellow circles to create Mickey’s buttons.

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Mickey Mouse Cupcakes Toppers

If you want a super easy recipe to make Mickey Mouse cupcake toppers, then this one might be the easiest recipe on our list. In this tutorial, you only need three ingredients: regular Oreo cookies, mini Oreo cookies, and some candy melts.

Make sure you get the darker-colored candy melts that blend perfectly with the Oreo cookies because they’ll be used as the glue that sticks everything together. Start by pulling apart regular Oreo cookies, then put the candy melts in the intended position for the ears.

Then stick two mini Oreo cookies onto the ear’s site. Lastly, put more candy melts on the other side to stick back the Oreo biscuit.

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