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Bug Cupcakes

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By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated May 16, 2022
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Bugged with plain old cupcakes? Add some fun decorations, and create a kid-friendly picnic.

Bug Cupcakes

  • Prep Time 60 min
  • Total 2 hr 10 min
  • Servings 24
  • Ingredients 6
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Ingredients

  • 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Yellow Cake Mix (or your favorite flavor)
  • Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
  • 1 tub (12 oz) Betty Crocker™ Whipped Fluffy White Frosting or 1 tub (12 oz) Betty Crocker™ Whipped Vanilla Frosting
  • Assorted gumdrops and candies
  • Betty Crocker™ Fruit by the Foot™ chewy fruit snack rolls (any variety)
  • 1 tube (0.68 oz) Betty Crocker™ black decorating gel

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
  • Step 
    2
    Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
  • Step 
    3
    Frost cupcakes with frosting. Decorate with whole or cut-up gumdrops, candies, cut-up or thinly rolled fruit snacks and gel to look like ladybugs, bumblebees, butterflies, caterpillars and beetles.

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