Jack-o'-Lantern Cupcakes Recipe

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Carve out a little time to decorate these Halloween pumpkins with Jack-'o-lantern faces. They're a fun treat to make and share!—Taste of Home Test Kitchen

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Jack-o'-Lantern Cupcakes Recipe

Prep: 1 hour

Yield: 12 Servings

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Ingredients

1 can vanilla frosting (16 ounces)
Orange food coloring
12 cupcakes of your choice
Assorted candies: spice drops, fruit leather, green licorice and licorice whips, candy corn, miniature and peanut M&Ms, jelly beans

Directions

Tint frosting orange; frost cupcakes. Roll spice drops to 1/4-in. thickness; cut spice drops and fruit leather into triangles for eyes and noses.
Cut licorice into 1-in. lengths for stems. Cut licorice whips into 2- to 3-in. lengths and twist as desired to form vines. Make jack-o'-lantern faces with candies. Yield: 1 dozen.

Originally published as Jack-o'-Lantern Cupcakes in Country Woman October/November 2010, p15

Halloween Punch

Hosting a Halloween party? You can make a tasty black punch by mixing grape and orange Kool-Aid. I like to use the unsweetened kind. —Merrill Powers, Spearville, Kansas