Halloween Jack’o’Lantern cupcakes

    Halloween JackåÕoåÕLantern cupcakes

    Serves:

    12 cupcakes

    Ingredients

    • 12 basic vanilla cupcakes (see recipe here)
    • 1 quantity buttercream icing (see recipe here)
    • red food colouring
    • yellow food colouring
    • black writing icing

    Method

    Add a few drops of yellow and red food colouring to the buttercream icing until you get a nice orange colour.

    Spread each cupcake with orange icing.

    Now use the black writing icing to draw Jack’o’Lantern faces onto each cupcake.

    Serving Suggestions

    Note

    • Let the kids help with the cake decorating but don’t stress about having perfect looking Jack’o’Lantern faces.
    • If the black writing icing is stiff in the tube just hold the tube in your hand for a minute or two to soften it up.
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    • This recipe was created by Penny Flanagan for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder:

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