Mermaid cotton candy mini cupcakes

Cake: sugar, bleached enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, eggs, soybean and/or canola oil, modified cornstarch, whey (milk), leavening blend (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, cornstarch, monocalcium phosphate, calcium sulfate), mono - and diglycerides, salt, emulsifier (propylene glycol mono - and diesters of fats and fatty acids, mono - and diglycerides, soy lecithin, citric acid [preservative]), soy lecithin, natural flavor. icing: icing sugar (sugar, cornstarch), vegetable oil shortening (canola oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, monoglycerides, polysorbate 60), water, corn syrup, nonfat dry milk, natural and artificial flavor, butter (cream, salt), mono - and diglycerides, salt, blue 1 lake, red 40 lake, beet powder (color), red 3. sprinkles: icing sugar (sugar, cornstarch), palm kernel oil, modified cornstarch, cornstarch, sunflower lecithin, yellow 6, yellow 5, blue 1, red 3, mica-based pearlescent pigment (color), shellac, polysorbate 60.