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Sweet and Spooky Halloween Recipes
from Duncan Hines®
This Halloween you can make devilishly
creative Halloween recipes that can double as party decorations. Whether
you create your own or use ours, Duncan Hines provides YOU with the
coolest cakes and cupcake inspirations on the block. The real man, Duncan
Hines, spent years discovering new trends in food and sharing them with
his extensive following of “foodies.” Now you can get in on the fun and
bake like the pros. The chefs at Duncan Hines and best-selling authors
Karen Tack and Alan Richardson of Hello, Cupcake and What’s New, Cupcake
share their original ideas for to make you a Halloween superstar!
The only trick in these treats is that the kids will never know they came
from a box!
Spice Pumpkin Cake
*Duncan Hines Original
This wonderfully moist cake has pumpkin, crunchy nuts and a creamy vanilla
icing. Enjoy the warm and spicy aroma as you apply your own decorative
touches.
Hands On Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
1 pkg Duncan Hines® Moist Deluxe® Spice Cake Mix
2 large eggs
1 cup water
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 cup chopped nuts
2 tubs Duncan Hines® Creamy Home-Style Classic Vanilla Frosting
green, red and yellow food coloring
1 flat bottom ice cream cone
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 10-inch Bundt pan.
2. Combine cake mix, eggs, water and pumpkin in large bowl. Beat at medium
speed with electric mixer for 2 minutes. Stir in nuts. Pour into pan.
3. Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out
clean. Cool in pan 25 minutes. Invert onto serving plate. Cool completely.
4. Measure 1/4 cup frosting into small bowl. Tint with green food
coloring. Place ice cream cone upside down on waxed paper. Frost with
green frosting. Refrigerate.
5. Tint remaining frosting with red and yellow food coloring until
frosting is desired orange color. Measure 3 tablespoons orange frosting in
small bowl; add green food coloring to brown frosting.
6. Frost cake with orange frosting. Make eyes, mouth and nose with brown
frosting as desired on pumpkin. Place green frosted ice cream cone in
center hole of cake for stem.
Makes 12 to 16 servings
Werewolf Cupcakes
*Karen Tack and Alan Richardson Original
Hands-On Time: 1 hour and 30 min
Howlingly delicious! - If you have a monster appetite for baking
adventures, then this is the project for you! Scare up some friends to
join in the werewolf cupcake fun! Use Duncan Hines Devil's Food cake mix
to get started.
12 Duncan Hines® Moist Deluxe Devil's Food cupcakes baked in brown paper liners
1/2 cup Duncan Hines® Creamy Home-Style Classic Vanilla frosting
1 cup Duncan Hines® Creamy Home-Style Dark Chocolate Fudge frosting
Black food coloring
1 can Duncan Hines® Creamy Home-Style Milk Chocolate frosting
24 marshmallows
Red leather fruit
24 orange, yellow and green candy coated chocolates (M&M)
12 black jelly beans
1. Spoon the vanilla frosting into a ziplock bag. Tint the dark chocolate
frosting black with the food coloring. Spoon half of the black frosting
(about 1/2 cup), up one side of a ziplock bag. Spoon half of the Classic
Chocolate frosting (about 3/4 cup) up the other half of the bag. Repeat
process with another ziplock bag.
2. Cut 1 inch corners from each side of the 12 marshmallows to make the
ears. Cut a 1/2 to a 1 inch V shape notch from the remaining 12
marshmallows to make the muzzles (see step photo). The size of the notch
will determine the size of the howling mouth.
3. Snip a small corner (1/8 inch) from the bag with the chocolate
frostings. Pipe a small dot of chocolate frosting to attach the
marshmallow ears and muzzle on top of the cupcakes. Cut 2 inch ovals from
the red fruit leather and press onto cut notch of marshmallow muzzles to
stick. Trim any excess fruit leather.
4. Pipe several vertical lines of chocolate frosting to cover the
marshmallow ears. Starting along the outer edge of cupcakes, pipe the fur,
about 1/2 inch in from edge to go completely around cupcake. Pipe another
row of fur in from first row, slightly overlapping. Continue piping rows
of fur with the chocolate frosting to cover the cupcake and marshmallow
just up to the red fruit leather. Continue with remaining cupcakes and
chocolate frosting.
5. Add 2 like colored M&M's, pressing them lengthwise, into the frosting
at an angle to make the glowing eyes. Snip a very small corner (1/16 inch)
from the bag with the vanilla frosting and pipe fangs all around the mouth
at the edge of fruit leather using a squeeze and pull motion. Add the
black jellybean to make the nose.
Makes 12 werewolf cupcakes
Spooky Surprise Cupcakes
*Duncan Hines Original
So deliciously simple, it's scary! That's the secret behind this recipe
for moist chocolate cupcakes with a sweet cream cheese surprise filling.
Scare up some smiles from your little monsters with these frightfully fun
treats.
Hands on Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 2 hours
1 (8ox.) block of cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
4 lg eggs
8 drops yellow food coloring
4 drops red food coloring
1 pkg. Duncan Hines® Moist Deluxe® Devil's Food Cake Mix
1 1/3 cups water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tub Duncan Hines® Creamy Home-Style Classic Chocolate Frosting
1 tub Duncan Hines®Creamy Home-Style Classic Vanilla Frosting
Chocolate decorating decors
1. Blend together cream cheese, 1 egg, sugar, 2 drops of red food coloring
and 4 drops of yellow food coloring until smooth and creamy; set aside.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place paper baking cups in muffin cups.
3. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Fill each muffin cup
1/2 full of batter. Place a dollop of cream cheese mixture in center of each
cupcake.
4. Bake for 23-26 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out
clean. Allow to cool in pan 5 minutes then remove to cooling rack to cool
completely before frosting and decorating.
5. To decorate cupcakes -- frost top of each cupcake with chocolate
frosting. Tint ½ cup of vanilla frosting with 2 drops of red food coloring
and 4 drops of yellow food coloring: set aside. Place remaining vanilla
frosting into plastic resealable bag. Cut a pinpoint hole in one corner of
the bag. Starting in the center, pipe frosting in circles on top of
cupcakes, making each circle larger than the previous. Drag a toothpick
through the circles in an outward, spoke like motion to create a spider
web.
6. Place orange frosting into plastic resealable bag. For the head of the
spider, pipe a small dollop of frosting onto frosting spider web. Pipe a
slightly larger dollop beside the small dollop, for the body of the
spider. Use chocolate decorating decors for the legs of the spider.
While there are many reasons for teaching kids to cook -- less expensive than eating out, preserves family heritage, etc, the most important
reason is that by teaching your child to cook, you're giving him a better chance to be a healthy grown-up. Enabling your child with the ability
to appreciate freshness and to transform ingredients into tasty foods opens their eyes to making wiser choices about what to eat...
Sweet and Spooky Halloween Recipes
Werewolf Cupcakes
Spooky Surprise Cupcakes
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