Taste of Home
Creepy Cupcakes
TOTAL TIME: Prep: 30 min. Bake: 25 min. + cooling
YIELD: 9 cupcakes.
With chocolate bodies and licorice legs, these cute spiders on cobwebs will "catch" attention fast! They're easy to scare up, too—our Test Kitchen simply put a Halloween spin on cupcakes baked from a purchased mix. —Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Ingredients
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1 package devil's food cake mix (regular size)
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1/4 cup butter, softened
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3 ounces cream cheese, softened
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3 cups confectioners' sugar
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2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon 2% milk, divided
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1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Red and yellow liquid food coloring or orange paste food coloring
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1 tablespoon baking cocoa
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Round pastry tip #3
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9 chocolate kisses
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9 semisweet chocolate chips
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Black shoestring licorice, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
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18 white nonpareils
Directions
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1.
Prepare cake mix according to package directions.
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2.
Fill greased jumbo muffin cups with 1/2 cup batter. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Cut a thin slice off the top of each cupcake.
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In a large bowl, cream butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons milk and vanilla; mix well. Remove 1 cup; tint orange and frost cupcakes. To the remaining frosting, add baking cocoa and remaining milk. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert round tip. Fill with chocolate frosting. Pipe a web on each cupcake; set remaining frosting aside.
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4.
For spider, insert chocolate kiss, point side down, next to edge of cupcake. Insert chocolate chip, point side down, next to kiss. Place 4 licorice pieces on each side of kiss. For eyes, pipe 2 small circles of chocolate frosting on chocolate chip; insert nonpareils.
Nutrition Facts
1 cupcake: 628 calories, 26g fat (10g saturated fat), 87mg cholesterol, 587mg sodium, 95g carbohydrate (69g sugars, 2g fiber), 6g protein.
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