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Crossbones Cupcakes

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Updated Nov 30, 2012
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Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ cake mix and frosting come together in these wonderful cupcakes – a perfect Halloween dessert treat.

Crossbones Cupcakes

  • Prep Time 25 min
  • Total 7 hr 0 min
  • Servings 24
  • Ingredients 6
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Ingredients

  • Powdered sugar
  • 8 oz white fondant (from 1-lb container)
  • 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ White Cake Mix
  • Water, vegetable oil and egg whites called for on cake mix box
  • 1 tub (12 oz) Betty Crocker™ Whipped Fluffy White Frosting
  • Crushed chocolate wafer cookies, if desired

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    On work surface sprinkled with powdered sugar, roll fondant to 1/8-inch thickness. With 2-inch bone-shaped cookie cutter, cut 48 bones from fondant, rerolling as needed. Place bones in single layer on ungreased large cookie sheet; let dry uncovered at least 6 hours or overnight.
  • Step 
    2
    Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and egg whites. Cool 10 minutes; remove cupcakes from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely.
  • Step 
    3
    Spoon frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag or decorating bag fitted with metal tip #1G. If using plastic bag, seal bag and cut off small corner. Pipe frosting on cupcakes. Sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Place 2 fondant bones on each cupcake to look like crossbones.

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