Scaredy Cakes Recipe

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Our Test Kitchen home economists guarantee kids of all ages will delight in these funny-faced cupcakes. You can even enlist your little ones to help decorate them, using the candies we suggest or other candies to suit your taste.

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Scaredy Cakes Recipe

Prep: 25 min. Bake: 20 min.

Yield: 24 Servings

25 20 45

Ingredients

1 package yellow cake mix (regular size)
1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
Gel food coloring, optional
Assorted candies of your choice (Chiclets, black licorice nips, red shoestring licorice, Gummi Worms, M&M's, Life Savers, gumballs, strawberry sour belts, Tart 'n' Tangy's, Tic Tacs)

Directions

Prepare and bake cake according to package directions for cupcakes. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
Tint some of the frosting if desired. Frost cupcakes. Decorate with assorted candy to create monster faces. Yield: 2 dozen.

Originally published as Scaredy Cakes in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2002, p238