Candy Corn Cuppies

Who says Halloween has to be scary?  Not me.  I like the colors and candy of Halloween and usually forgo the fake blood, spiders and ghouls.  Although my older kids are waiting patiently for me to stop putting glittery bows on the skeleton's and dive right into the haunted ickiness that encompasses the spirit of Halloween. But I do still have a Kindergartner who cares more about Trick or Treating and NOT getting spooked. So I decided this Halloween I was going to stick to my guns and keep Halloween just as cutie patootie as I possibly could.  That's what inspired me to create these adorable spook-free mini cupcakes that I lovingly refer to as "candy corn cuppies".  Each ghost baby is stuffed with a single candy corn and topped with Fluffy Buttercream in three shades of a classic Candy Corn.  Can you stand it?  They are as sweet as they look and I don't expect my big boy to ever be scared of Ghosts after feasting his eyes (and stomach) on one of these little babies.

This little project is really quite simple.  Just prepare your favorite vanilla cake batter and place about a teaspoon of the batter in your mini muffin tin lined with mini cupcake liners. Tuck one Candy Corn in the middle and top with another teaspoon of batter.

Bake according to your recipe and cool.  The Candy Corn melts into the cake batter while it's baking creating a moist Candy Corn flavored cake.   

Did I scare you?  

Okay,okay. I told you they were too cute to be scary.

To make Candy Corn Cuppies

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You will need:

Your favorite vanilla cupcake recipe

mini cupcake pan

mini cupcake liners

your favorite vanilla buttercream

black sugar pearls sprinkles

Wilton orange food coloring

Wilton Golden Yellow food coloring

3 piping bags

2 star tips

1 large round tip

Prepare cake batter according to directions. 

Add a teaspoon of batter to liners.  

Add one Candy Corn in the middle and top with another teaspoon of cake batter.  

Bake according to directions. 

Prepare Buttercream.  

Once cupcakes are cooled you can start to decorate them. 

Take 3 piping bags and fill each separately with white, yellow and orange Buttercream.  

Using the star tip, start with the yellow Buttercream and pipe around the cupcake twice.  

Repeat with Orange. 

Then using the large round tip and white Buttercream fill the inside of the yellow and orange "rings" you just made with swirls of white adding height to make the ghost.  

Add two black pearl sprinkles for eyes.