Skeleton Cupcakes

By Eat More Chocolate Team      

April 21, 2015

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These too-cute cupcakes are a must-bake for your Halloween party. There's room for creativity on these delicious desserts.

  • Yields: 10 Servings
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Directions

Beat together butter and shortening for 2 minutes. Slowly beat in confectioners' sugar.

Add vanilla and salt; beat for 1 minute. Mound 1/4 cup frosting in center of top of each larger cupcake.

For faces, add M&M's, pieces of licorice and halved jellybeans (see photo).

For hats, dab frosting on mini cupcakes, invert and stick to chocolate wafers. Put one on each icing mound.

Ingredients

10 Chocolate Cupcakes

1 stick (1/4 lb.) unsalted butter $

1/2 cup shortening

3 cups confectioners' sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/8 teaspoon salt

20 brown M&M's

1 long strand black licorice

25 white mini jellybeans

10 mini Chocolate Cupcakes

1 (9 oz.) box chocolate wafers

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