Cupcake Mummy

Name: Cupcake Mummy
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings.
Ingredients: 1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting; 6 vanilla cupcakes; 8 to 12 large marshmallows, cut into pieces; Baking cocoa and crushed chocolate wafers

Wrap up Halloween fun with these frightfully frosted goodies. Once you take that first bite, it's impossible to stop eating! —Karen Tack, Riverside, Connecticut

Ingredients

1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
6 vanilla cupcakes
8 to 12 large marshmallows, cut into pieces
Baking cocoa and crushed chocolate wafers

Directions

Frost tops of cupcakes. Arrange on a covered cake board, forming a mummy. Place marshmallow pieces on cupcakes. Insert tip #46 into a pastry bag; fill with frosting. Pipe long bands across the mummy, creating bandages.
Dust mummy with cocoa; sprinkle cake board with crushed wafers.

Originally published as Cupcake Mummy in Taste of Home October 2011