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Orange You Spiky Recipe

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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

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Orange You Spiky Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 30 min.

Yield: 6 Servings

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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 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.

How-To: See cupcake assembly»

Originally published as Orange You Spiky in Taste of Home October/November 2010, p29

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Reviewed on Oct. 25, 2010 by c00kiegirl

Fun and easy to make - made them in different colors!

Reviewed on Oct. 25, 2010 by c00kiegirl

Use this receipe for a Zooloween Boo event at our Park. It was so easy and fun to make and even more fun seeing the kids' eyes light up for them. Wonderful

Reviewed on Oct. 24, 2010 by mom2boys44

It was a little tricky to get the frosting on smoothly but my 6 year old had fun helping.

Reviewed on Oct. 04, 2010 by mommy4life

I have a 3 and 5 year old and these cupcakes were very easy for them to do. The only part I did was the icing, other than that, my girls did the rest!

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