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
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix (or your favorite flavor)
- Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
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
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Step1Make, bake and cool cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and eggs.
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Step2In 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.
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Step3Place 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.
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Step4Cut 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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