TV Dinner Cupcakes

Name: TV Dinner Cupcakes
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 18
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 1 stick butter; 59 milliliters caramel sauce; 237 milliliters cereal crumbs (recommended: Cornflakes); 118 milliliters white chocolate melting wafers; 3 eggs; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 3 yellow fruit chews (recommended: Laffy Taffys, Starbursts); 9 orange fruit chews (recommended: Tootsie Fruit Rolls, Starbursts); 18 servings Green food coloring; 18 servings Bone template; 2 Tbsps hard green candies (recommended: M and Ms, Runts); 118 milliliters milk; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 118 milliliters vanilla frosting; 473 milliliters vanilla frosting; 6 Tbsps vanilla frosting; 118 milliliters vegetable oil; 6 plain doughnut holes

TV Dinner Cupcakes requires approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 18. One serving contains 566 calories, 5g of protein, and 19g of fat. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of baking powder, doughnut holes, vegetable oil, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. This recipe is typical of American cuisine.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

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Oven

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.

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Baking Soda

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

In another bowl, whisk together the vanilla extract, milk and vegetable oil.

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Vanilla Extract

Vegetable Oil

Milk

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Whisk

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Cream together the butter and sugar with a hand-held mixer in a large bowl.

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Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Blender

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Add the eggs 1 at a time and mix to combine. Alternate the dry and wet ingredients to the egg mixture, starting and ending with the dry ingredients.

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Egg

Pour the batter 2/3 full into the cupcake tins and bake for 15 to 20 minutes.

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Cupcakes

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Oven

Remove from the oven and allow to cool before frosting.

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Frosting

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Oven

Put a bone template on a waxed paper lined cookie sheet.

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Bone

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Baking Sheet

Melt the chocolate over a double boiler. When melted, pour the chocolate into a resealable bag. Press out the excess air and seal the bag. Snip a 1/8-inch corner from the bag and, following the bone template, pipe an outline onto the waxed paper. Fill in the bone with chocolate. Tap the cookie sheet lightly to smooth the top of the chocolate. Repeat with the remaining chocolate to make 6 bones.

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Chocolate

Bone

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Double Boiler

Baking Sheet

Refrigerate until firm, about 5 to 10 minutes.

Spread the vanilla frosting on top of 6 cupcakes, mounding it slightly. Using a sharp knife, make a small slit in the top of each doughnut hole. Carefully peel 1 chocolate bone from the waxed paper and insert the pointed end into the slit. Repeat with the remaining bones and doughnut holes.

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Vanilla Frosting

Chocolate

Cupcakes

Bone

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Knife

Place 1 doughnut hole on top of each cupcake. Put in the freezer for 15 minutes.

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Cupcakes

Spread the frosting over the doughnut hole until it is smooth and covered.

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Frosting

Spread

Add the cornflake crumbs to a medium bowl and gently press the frosted cupcakes into the crumbs to cover completely.

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Corn Flake Crumbs

Cupcakes

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Bowl

Transfer the cupcakes to the aluminum tray.

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Cupcakes

Cut the yellow fruit chews into 1-inch squares.

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Fruit Chews

Spread the vanilla frosting on 1 cupcake, mounding it slightly. Use a small spoon to create a well in the center of the frosting.

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Frosting

Cupcakes

Spread

Put the cupcake in the baking tray and arrange the fruit chew in the well at an angle.

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Cupcakes

Fruit

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Baking Pan

Heat the caramel sauce for 2 to 4 seconds in the microwave and drizzle it on top of the cupcake so that it fills the well and spills over like gravy. Repeat with remaining 5 cupcakes.

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Caramel Sauce