Difficutly: very easy
Time: 5 Min
Portion: 1 serving
Ingredients:
Makes about 20 cupcakes
INGREDIENTS
For cupcake
1 white cake mix
red coloring gel (I used Wilton “no taste” red)
yellow coloring gel (I used Wilton lemon yellow)
For buttercream
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
7-8 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions:
Preheat oven 350F
To make cupcake—
Make cake batter as directed on box.
Divide the cake batter into 2 bowls. Color one orange (red+yellow=orange) and one yellow.
Fill the cupcake liners about 1/2 full (1/2 yellow and 1/2 orange batter, yellow first). Bake for 17-20 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting.
To make frosting—
Beat butter until creamy, scrape bowl. Add 5 cups of sifted powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla, beat until combined. Add more powdered sugar until you get to the consistency you want. Make sure its not too stiff to pipe.
[NOTES: I cut off my cupcake tops to have a level surface but you don\’t have to.]
To assemble cupcakes—
Using a 1M star, pipe buttercream on top of cupcake, to form the point of the “candy corn”.
Playing around: Using a 2A round tip, pipe buttercream on top of cupcake to form “ghost”. Chill in the frig to let frosting set before brushing on black coloring gel for eyes and mouth.