Crococake

This was my boyfriend's birthday surprise for his 26th last weekend. I got the idea from the Hello Cupcake book but I tweaked it a little.

The recipe suggests that you use canned frosting but I know my boyfriend prefers my homemade cream cheese frosting which isn't thick enough for piping into scales but it is more tasty. I coloured it with some natural green colouring from Asda and spread it across 24 vanilla cupcakes.

The example in the book uses some chocolate flavoured biscuits for the scales but I opted for After Eight mints which chopped really nicely with a sharp knife. The hard candy bananas for claws were tough to find so I opted for yellow jelly beans. The lady in the sweet shop even picked out all the yellow ones that were as curved as possible for me! Apart from that I copied the example almost exactly.