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Updated May 24, 2022
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Looking for a perfect Halloween dessert decorated with Bugles® snacks? Then check out these chocolate cupcakes made using Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ cake mix and frosted with vanilla buttercream.

Witches’ Hat Cupcakes

  • Prep Time 60 min
  • Total 2 hr 40 min
  • Servings 24
  • Ingredients 11
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Ingredients

Cupcakes

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

  • 6 cups powdered sugar
  • 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon orange paste food color

Decorations

  • 24 fudge-striped shortbread cookies
  • 1 1/2 cups dark cocoa candy melts or coating wafers (9 oz)
  • 24 Bugles® snacks
  • Star-shaped candy sprinkles

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Make, bake and cool cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and eggs.
  • Step 
    2
    In large bowl, mix powdered sugar and butter with spoon or electric mixer on low speed. Stir in vanilla and 3 tablespoons of the milk. Gradually beat in just enough remaining milk to make frosting smooth and spreadable. If frosting is too thick, beat in more milk, a few drops at a time. If frosting becomes too thin, beat in a small amount of powdered sugar. Tint frosting with orange paste food color. Place 1/2 cup frosting in small resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag and set aside. Frost cupcakes with remaining orange frosting.
  • Step 
    3
    Place 1 cookie, striped side down, on each cupcake. In microwavable bowl, microwave candy melts on Medium (50%) 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds. Dip snacks in melted candy; place upright in center of each cookie. Immediately decorate with candy sprinkles.
  • Step 
    4
    Cut off tiny corner (about 1/8 inch) of bag of frosting. Pipe frosting around base of chocolate-dipped snacks to resemble ribbon band.

Nutrition

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