How to make the cutest duck cupcakes ever

Lucy turned two this week and we had a great time celebrating. She's very into ducks these days, so ducks were the theme of the party. I'll share more about that later, but for now, here's a little tutorial on how to make the cutest duck cupcakes ever.

Step 1:
Start by making these delicious little cupcakes, but only fill the cups about half full. Once they cool, dirty ice them with canned vanilla icing.

Step 2:

Cut large marshmallows in half diagonally, and stick them on the cupcakes sticky side up. Then stick donut holes on the cupcakes and "glue" with icing. Stick in the freezer for at least 30 minutes. Ours were in there about 2 hours.

Step 3:

Heat canned icing in the microwave for a few seconds at a time, until it's runny and drips off of a spoon. When it gets to the right consistency, add yellow food coloring. Then dip the entire cupcake into the icing to cover, and allow the extra to drip off.

Step 4:

Stick circus peanuts that have been molded into beaks into the front of the donut holes. Sorry this picture is blurry - it's the only one I have.

Step 5: Once the icing has dried, put two icing dots on the donut hole for eyes, and stick miniature brown m&m's on top of the icing dots.

Step 6: 

Make a few with tails and feet instead of heads. Bottoms up!

Step 7:

Line them up for a picture, and then put them in the refrigerator. Ours were in there overnight, and it really helped improve the overall finished look.

Step 8:

Put on a cute display stand!