Jack-O-Lantern Cupcakes
Festive cupcakes with vibrant orange frosting and playful pumpkin faces, perfect for Halloween celebrations!
Equipment
- Oven
- Muffin tin
- Mixing Bowls
- Piping bag
Ingredients
- 1 box cake mix flavor of your choice
- required oil and eggs based on cake mix instructions
- 1 container white frosting
- green gummy candy (e.g., Jolly Rancher Sour Bites Gummies)
- 24 sticks thin pretzel sticks
- orange food coloring
- black decorating icing
Instructions
- Preheat your oven according to the cake mix instructions.
- Mix the cake mix with the required oil, eggs, and water until smooth.
- Line your muffin tin with cupcake liners and fill each about two-thirds full with batter.
- Bake for 18-22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Add orange food coloring to the white frosting and mix until you achieve your desired shade.
- Spread a thin layer of orange frosting over the cooled cupcakes.
- Insert half of a pretzel stick into the top of each cupcake to create the pumpkin stem.
- Cut the green gummy candy into leaf shapes and place them next to the pretzel stick.
- Use black decorating icing to draw faces on the cupcakes.
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Notes
Store leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.