Name: Creepy Cupcakes
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 9
Ingredients: 1 package devil's food cake mix (regular size) -; 1/4 cup butter, softened -; 3 ounces cream cheese, softened -; 3 cups confectioners' sugar -; 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon 2% milk, divided -; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract -; Red and yellow liquid food coloring or orange paste food coloring -; 1 tablespoon baking cocoa -; Round pastry tip #3 -; 9 chocolate kisses -; 9 semisweet chocolate chips -; Black shoestring licorice, cut into 3/4-inch pieces -; 18 white nonpareils -

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30 min.

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Ingredients for - Creepy Cupcakes

1. 1 package devil's food cake mix (regular size) -

2. 1/4 cup butter, softened -

3. 3 ounces cream cheese, softened -

4. 3 cups confectioners' sugar -

5. 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon 2% milk, divided -

6. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract -

7. Red and yellow liquid food coloring or orange paste food coloring -

8. 1 tablespoon baking cocoa -

9. Round pastry tip #3 -

10. 9 chocolate kisses -

11. 9 semisweet chocolate chips -

12. Black shoestring licorice, cut into 3/4-inch pieces -

13. 18 white nonpareils -

How to cook deliciously - Creepy Cupcakes

1. Stage

Prepare cake mix according to package directions.

2. Stage

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.

3. Stage

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.

4. Stage

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.