Candy Corn Cupcakes

Name: Candy Corn Cupcakes
Prep time: 55 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 12 brown, orange, and white candy corn; 3 eggs; 473 milliliters prepared white frosting; 6 drops green food coloring, or as needed; 12 yellow, orange, and white candy corn; 79 milliliters vegetable oil; 237 milliliters water; 517 grams package white cake mix

Candy Corn Cupcakes is a dairy free recipe with 24 servings. One serving contains 195 calories, 2g of protein, and 7g of fat. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe is typical of American cuisine. Head to the store and pick up brown, eggs, cake mix, and a few other things to make it today. Halloween will be even more special with this recipe. Several people really liked this dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 55 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners.

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Cupcakes

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Muffin Liners

Oven

Place cake mix in a bowl, and pour in water and vegetable oil; add 3 eggs. With electric mixer on low speed, beat the cake mix with water, oil, and eggs until thoroughly combined, about 2 minutes.

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Cooking Oil

Cake Mix

Water

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Pour half the cake mix into a second bowl; divide the remaining cake mix in half, and place into 2 separate small bowls.

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Cake Mix

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Bowl

Color the largest portion of the cake mix orange by mixing in 4 drops of red food coloring and 6 drops of yellow food coloring. Into a second, smaller bowl of cake mix, mix in 10 drops of red food coloring, 12 drops of yellow food coloring, and 6 drops of green food coloring, to color that bowl brown. Into the last remaining small bowl of cake mix, stir in 5 drops of yellow food coloring to color that bowl yellow.

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Red Food Color

Cake Mix

Orange

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Bowl

Spoon yellow cake batter into the bottoms of 12 prepared cupcake cups, filling them about 1/3 full. Spoon the brown batter into the bottoms of the remaining 12 prepared cupcake cups, filling them about 1/3 full. Spoon orange cupcake mix over the yellow and brown layers, filling the cupcakes about 2/3 full. Try not to jar or shake the filled cupcakes, to avoid mixing layers.

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Shake

Cupcakes

Orange

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Muffin Liners

Carefully place cupcakes into the preheated oven, and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 18 to 22 minutes. Allow to cool.

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Cupcakes

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Toothpicks