Whacky Batty Cupcakes
These colorful cupcakes will fly off the table this Halloween.
Prep time: 10 min.
Baking time: 22 min.
Decoration time: 25 min.
Difficulty: Easy
What you'll need:
- 1 bag MILKY WAY® Brand FUN SIZE® Bars
- 1 bag M&M'S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies Pumpkin Patch Mix
- 1 bag M&M'S® Brand Peanut Chocolate Candies Pumpkin Patch Mix
- 1 18.25-oz. chocolate cake mix
- 1 16-oz. can vanilla frosting
- Yellow food coloring
- 1 cup dark chocolate frosting
- Black food coloring
- 2 12-cup cupcake pans
- 24 paper cupcake liners
- 3/4 cup yellow decorating sugar (optional)
- Spatula
- Resealable plastic bag
What to do:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the cupcake pans with paper liners.
- Prepare the cake mix according to package instructions and spoon the batter into the prepared pans. Place 1/2 of a MILKY WAY® Brand FUN SIZE® Bar in the center of each cupcake. Bake for approximately 19-22 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Tint the vanilla frosting bright yellow with food coloring. Tint the chocolate frosting black with the food coloring and spoon into a resealable bag.
- Spread the top of the cupcakes with the yellow frosting. Roll the edges in to the decorating sugar if desired. Place one or two black M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate Candies Pumpkin Patch Mix and M&M’S® Brand Peanut Chocolate Candies Pumpkin Patch Mix on top of each cupcake as the bats’ bodies. Snip a small corner from the bag with the black frosting. Pipe bat wings on the either side of each M&M’S® and ears on top of each M&M’S®.
