Award-Worthy Cupcakes:

Ingredients:

• 1 box yellow cake mix
• *ingredients on box

• 6 cups powdered sugar
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon fresh lime zest
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon zest
• 1 tablespoon milk
• green & yellow food dye (I used 25 drops of green and 12 drops of yellow)

• 3 cups orange chocolate melty disks

Directions:

Bake cupcakes according to package directions. Set aside to cool.

Meanwhile, in a stand mixer, whip together powdered sugar, butter, lime juice, lemon juice and lemon and lime zest on medium speed for 3 minutes. Add milk and food coloring and whip for 1 additional minute.

Take 8 of your cupcakes, unwrap them, and crumble into a medium bowl. Add in 1 tablespoon of your frosting and mix well. If mixture seems too dry, add in 1 teaspoon at at time until desired consistency is reached (not too moist, but sticks together well.)

Form mixture into the shape seen above (Image 1) and place in freezer for about 5 minutes. (Should make 16 blimps)

Take 12 orange melty disks and cut as seen above (Image 2). Perfect little blimp-y fin thingys...

Melt your orange melty disks in a microwave-safe mug or bowl and set aside.

Remove cake ball from freezer and use a little melted chocolate to attach cut pieces to cake ball (Image 3).

Place cake ball on the end of a wooden skewer, dip into melted chocolate and place stick into a tall glass to dry (Image 4). Repeat with remaining cake balls.

Frost cupcakes.

Once dry, carefully remove blimp from the skewer and place on frosted cupcakes. I also added some little pearlescent white chocolates to the top of mine to add a little whimsy!

Makes 16 cupcakes.