Halloween Mini-Cakes Recipe

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Pumpkin and ghost cookie cutters make it a snap to shape these cute little cakes. A simple icing gives the sweet treats their spook-tacular look. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen

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Halloween Mini-Cakes Recipe

Prep: 1 hour Bake: 20 min. + cooling

Yield: 18 Servings

60 20 80

Ingredients

1 package yellow cake mix (regular size)
9 cups confectioners' sugar, divided
9 tablespoons milk, divided
4 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon light corn syrup, divided
Orange and black paste or gel food coloring

Directions

Grease two 13-in. x 9-in. baking pans; line with parchment paper and set aside. Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Pour into prepared pans.
Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes. Using parchment paper, remove cakes from pans and invert onto wire racks; carefully peel off parchment paper. Cool completely.
Cut one cake into pumpkin shapes and the second cake into ghost shapes using 3-in. cookie cutters dipped in confectioners' sugar. Carefully arrange individual cakes on wire racks over waxed paper.
For icing, in each of two large bowls, combine 4 cups confectioners' sugar, 4 tablespoons milk and 2 tablespoons corn syrup until smooth. Tint icing in one bowl orange. Place orange icing in a heavy-duty resealable plastic bag; cut a small hole in a corner of bag. Pipe over top of pumpkin shapes, allowing icing to drape over cake sides. Repeat with white icing and ghost cakes. Let stand for 30 minutes or until icing is set and dry.
In a small bowl, combine the remaining confectioners' sugar, milk and corn syrup until smooth. Tint black. Pipe faces onto pumpkin and ghost cakes. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.

Originally published as Halloween Mini-Cakes in Taste of Home Halloween Food & Fun Annual 2006