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: