Black Bear Cupcakes

I made these for our Relay for Life team whose theme was "Hunting Season." I wish I had more tutorial type pictures, but I was in a hurry and making two trays of these had me cooking right up until it was time for me to go to the Relay. Here are the instructions anyway:

Ingredients:

Dark chocolate cake mix (plus ingredients listed on box, ie: eggs, water, oil)

Chocolate icing (about 1/2 tub)

The Oreo cookies covered in fudge (1 package)

Milk chocolate chips

Mini Oreos (1 bag)

Dark jelly beans (I used Jelly Bellies Wildberry...yum!)

Mini Vanilla Wafers (1/2 box)

Black gel icing

Directions:

Make cupcakes according to box directions. When cool, put on a really thin layer of chocolate icing on top of the cupcakes. Put a small amount of icing on the top of the fudge covered Oreo. Put in on top of the cupcake leaning slightly forward; the flat bottom should be facing up. Put a small amount of icing on the back of a mini vanilla wafer and put it toward the bottom of the fudge Oreo. Using a small amount of icing as glue again, put the jelly bean longways on the wafer as the nose. Next, using icing as glue, put two chocolate chips onto the fudge Oreo as the eyes. When putting the mini Oreos on for the ears, it's a good idea to prop them up by using chocolate chips underneath them so that the Oreos stick up more. Pipe mouths with the gel icing last, as it is easy to touch and mess up.

Here are pictures of the final product. The amount of ingredients above only make one tray of these, but obviously you can double, triple, etc. as you need.