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Chocolate Moose Cupcakes

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By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Updated May 17, 2022
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A moose is on the loose in these adorable themed-cupcakes! They're (almost!) too cute to eat.

Chocolate Moose Cupcakes

  • Prep Time 1 hr 15 min
  • Total 2 hr 5 min
  • Servings 14
  • Ingredients 15
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Ingredients

Cupcakes

  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 cups Gold Medal™ flour
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened baking cocoa
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries, well drained

Frosting

Decorations

  • 14 peanut-shaped peanut butter sandwich cookies
  • 14 small pretzel twists, cut lengthwise in half
  • White and red decorating icing (from 6.4-oz cans)
  • 28 blue candy-coated chocolate candies
  • 28 brown candy-coated chocolate candies
Make With
Gold Medal Flour

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 375°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 14 regular-size muffin cups, or grease bottoms only of muffin cups with shortening.
  • Step 
    2
    In medium bowl, beat milk, oil and egg with fork. Stir in remaining cupcake ingredients except cherries just until flour is moistened. Stir in cherries. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups (cups will be almost full).
  • Step 
    3
    Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cupcake comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from pan to cooling racks to cool.
  • Step 
    4
    Place 1/2 cup frosting in small microwavable bowl. Microwave uncovered on High 5 to 10 seconds or until frosting is melted and can be stirred smooth. Dip tops and sides of peanut butter cookies in melted frosting; place on waxed paper until hardened, about 15 minutes.
  • Step 
    5
    Frost cupcakes with remaining frosting. Press 1 coated cookie onto each cupcake so cookie extends over edge of cupcake to look like snout of moose. Poke 1 pretzel half into each cupcake, behind cookie, for antlers. Use white decorating icing to pipe on nostrils. Use red decorating icing to pipe on mouths. Attach blue candies for eyes and brown candies for ears.

Nutrition

490 Calories
21g Total Fat
4g Protein
70g Total Carbohydrate
51g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cupcake
Calories
490
Calories from Fat
190
Total Fat
21g
32%
Saturated Fat
8g
42%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
35mg
12%
Sodium
300mg
13%
Potassium
120mg
3%
Total Carbohydrate
70g
23%
Dietary Fiber
2g
8%
Sugars
51g
Protein
4g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
6%
6%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
10%
10%
Iron
8%
8%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 3 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 4 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
4 1/2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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