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Batty Bats Recipe

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Can you believe the perky ears on our bat cupcakes is really chewing gum? You will get the best results when cutting the fudge-stripe cookies if you use a gentle sawing motion.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen

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Batty Bats Recipe

Prep: 45 min.

Yield: 24 Servings

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Ingredients

1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
Blue paste food coloring
Cupcakes of your choice
Gum balls
Sticks Winterfresh gum
Fudge-striped cookies
1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting
Pastry tip—round tip # 3
Candy corn

Directions

Tint vanilla frosting bright blue; frost cupcakes.
Add gum ball eyes. Using a clean scissors or small sharp knife, cut sticks of gum into eyebrow shapes. Pinch tops to curve if desired; insert above eyes.
For bat wings, with a small serrated knife, cut cookies in half. Add scalloped edges if desired. Insert two cookie halves into each cupcake.
Using chocolate frosting and #3 tip, pipe pupils on eyes. For fangs, cut the white part from the candy corn. (Save removed orange sections for another use.) Add two white fangs under each mouth; press down gently. Yield: varies.

Originally published as Batty Bats in Halloween Food & Fun 2009 , p27

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Reviewed on Nov. 07, 2012 by Roxyfox

Also had a problem with the cookies breaking very easily...

Reviewed on Oct. 31, 2012 by christibutler

These turned out SO CUTE. I had to go buy another package of cookies, they kept breaking and were very difficult to deal with. I tinted some of my frosting brown

for the eyes and mouth. I used a white cake mix and tinted it red, so it would be like blood.