Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax Cupcake Toppers: Trees and Mustaches for All!

mikeadamick | March 1st, 2012 at 2:38 pm

I’m happy to admit that my little Truffula Treets experiment didn’t quite turn out as well as I had anticipated.

What was supposed to be a tree-looking treat for the upcoming Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax movie instead turned into a … mess.

A delicious mess, yes. But a mess nonetheless.

Enter CraftyAmy over at The New Home Ec for the save.

She made some seriously wicked Lorax cupcake toppers and gave me inspiration for making my own. While I especially liked her Lorax head treatment, I thought you could take it one teeny tiny step beyond: cupcake mustache toppers.

You take the same basic ingredients, cupcakes, craft supplies, but then you make miniature versions of The Lorax mustaches and insert those on top.

Voila! A fun craft you can use not only for cupcake decoration but also for photo fun — because what 5-year-old girl doesn’t like running around with a Lorax mustache? Or, if you’re pressed for time like I am this week, you can do what I did: forget the cupcake and just insert the mustache topper into a store-bought cookie.

Lame, I know. But it’s definitely a fun way to read the book, pretending to be The Lorax … so long as the sugar crash doesn’t leave you like me: asleep. Oh well, at least the mustache can babysit for 20 minutes….

Disclaimer: A big thanks to Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax for sponsoring this campaign. Click here to see more of the discussion.

About the Author

mikeadamick

Mike Adamick is a stay-at-home dad and writer who lives in San Francisco. His writing appears on NPR, the New York Times, Jezebel.com, McSweeney's, the San Francisco Chronicle, and his mother's refrigerator. In his spare time, you can usually find him at the sewing machine, either making dresses for his daughter or cursing. Most likely both. Because let's face it, hems and sausage fingers don't mix. He blogs at Cry It Out!

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