{"id":1553,"date":"2017-06-08T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2017-12-28T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T08:30:22","slug":"a-bugs-life-cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/08\/a-bugs-life-cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bug&#8217;s Life Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for summer? You can celebrate the start of the season with some Bug&#8217;s Life cupcakes! These cupcakes are inspired by the opening sequence of the movie when the ants are gathering food for the grasshoppers. The seeds and berries they gather always looked like almonds and raspberries to me, so that is what I used on these cupcakes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1555 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1850-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1850\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1850-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1850-768x1079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1850-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1850.jpg 1954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think asparagus looks a bit like the grass that the ants are harvesting the seeds from, so I used some as background decorations. The bodies of the ants are made from Smarties and mini M&amp;Ms. I used a writing tip to draw frosting antennae, arms, and legs on the ants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1557 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1854-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1854\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1854-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1854-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1854-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1854-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the setup for the whole party. I put some rock shaped scones, cereal, berries, and nuts onto leaf plates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1554 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1848-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1848\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1848-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1848-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1848-1024x676.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No gaps! My little ants are all in a row to deliver their seeds to the pile.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1556 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1853-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1853\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1853-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1853-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1853-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1853-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1853.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the A Bug&#8217;s Life baby blanket that I made. The clovers are made from 4 separate hearts. I chain stitched a row for the arms and legs. You can sew them on in any pose. For general instructions on how to make shapes, take a look at this <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2016\/06\/23\/how-to-crochet-shapes\/\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2211 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0281-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Bug's Life blanket\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0281-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0281-768x842.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0281-934x1024.jpg 934w, https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0281.jpg 1867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more ideas for parties based on Pixar movies, take a look at my <a href=\"https:\/\/au.pinterest.com\/stephhesselson\/pixar-crafts\/\">Pinterest Board<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also take a look at my <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2016\/04\/03\/up-party\/\">Up<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2016\/05\/07\/brave-party\/\">Brave<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2016\/04\/19\/toy-story-party\/\">Toy Story<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2016\/04\/07\/inside-out-party\/\">Inside Out,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2016\/07\/28\/finding-dory-cake\/\">Finding Dory<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.comindex.php\/2016\/04\/20\/the-good-dinosaur-party\/\">The Good Dinosaur<\/a> party posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready for summer? You can celebrate the start of the season with some Bug&#8217;s Life cupcakes! These cupcakes are inspired by the opening sequence of the movie when the ants are gathering food for the grasshoppers. The seeds and berries they gather always looked like almonds and raspberries to me, so that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3,8],"tags":[68,10,69],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-craft","category-food","category-party","tag-a-bugs-life","tag-party","tag-pixar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lolliesorcandy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}