Halloween Cupcakes
Serves as desired
Prep time: 5 mins per cup cake
  cupcakes NEEDED:
Purchased or home baked cupcakes
Canned vanilla and chocolate frostings
Tubes of decorating gels, paste or gel food colors
Assorted cookies, candies, cereal and dried fruit.
 

Witch:
1.Spread cupcake with chocolate frosting (or color frosting black)

2. For the face, spread a round cookie with vanilla frosting colored orange

3. Using a dab of frosting as glue, stick on small green candies for eyes and put a dot of brown, black or red piping gel in center of pupils

4. Pip mouth and eyebrows with red gel

5. Gently set cookie on cupcake. Spread a dab of frosting on top of cookie and attach pieces of shredded wheat cereal for hair. Shape a pitted prune into a hat; gently press in place


Ghost:
1. Spread one end of an ocal sandwich cookie in cupcake

2. Spread liberally with vanilla fosting

3. Stick miniature marshmellows in place for arms.

4. Pipe features with black or brown piping gel.

Cat:
1. Spread cupake with vanilla frosting colored orange.

2. Using a dot of frosting as glue, stick small red candies or halved red jelly beans onto a chocolate sandwhich cookie for eyes.

3. Put vanilla frosting into a plastic freezer bag. Press frosting into a corner, snip tip off corner and pipe mouth on cookie.

4. Snip pieces of black licorice Twizzler for ears and tail.

5. Insert ears into filling between two halves of the cookie. Gently set cookie on cupcake and stick tail into cupcake behind cookie.

© Women's Day Specials - Halloween Celebrations vol XIII, #1, 2003
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