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Orange You Spiky

Don't worry, this cupcake won't hurt a bit. You'll be amazed at what a few chow mein noodles can do when used on this monster cupcake. —Karen Tack, Riverside, Connecticut

6 ServingsPrep/Total Time: 30 min.

Ingredients

6 chocolate or vanilla cupcakes baked in black foil liners
1 can (16 ounces) plus 1 cup vanilla frosting
1 cup chow mein noodles
Red and yellow food coloring
12 honey wheat sticks or pretzel sticks
12 mini marshmallows
12 brown M&M’s
Chocolate jimmies

Directions

1. Spread the tops of the cupcakes with a small mound of vanilla
frosting. Insert chow mein noodles into cupcakes to look like
spikes. Place in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up.
2. Spoon 3 tablespoons of the vanilla frosting into a small
resealable bag and set aside.
3. Tint the remaining frosting bright orange with the food coloring
and spoon into a glass microwave-safe bowl. Microwave the frosting,
stirring frequently, until it is the texture of slightly whipped
cream.
4. Holding the foil liner of the slightly frozen cupcake, dip the top
of the cupcake up to the liner in the melted frosting to coat. Use a
spoon to add more frosting if necessary. Allow the excess frosting
to drip off. Invert and transfer to a cookie sheet. Repeat with the

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Directions (continued)

remaining cupcakes.
5. Insert one end of a wheat stick into the side of a mini
marshmallow. Repeat with the remaining marshmallows and wheat
sticks. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting.
Pipe a dot of frosting on one flat side of a marshmallow. Add a
brown candy as the pupil. Add a few chocolate jimmies on the top as
eyelashes. Pipe a dot of vanilla frosting on the brown candy as the
sparkle in the eyes.
6. Insert two marshmallow eyes on top of a frosted cupcake about 1
in. apart. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes. Yield: 6 cupcakes.