Cupcakes Raise A Flap

Party guest will just go batty for these high-flying treats! Cupcakes come to life with Chocolate Roll-Out Cookie wings and Chocolate Buttercream Icing faces.

Source: 2005 Yearbook

Tools:

Standard muffin pan
Tip: 2
Tip: 2A
Tip: 3
Tip: 352
Just Batty Baking Cups or Halloween themed baking cups
Leaves and Acorns Nesting Metal Cookie Cutter Set

Ingredients:

Makes: Each cupcake serves 1.

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instructions

Step 1

In advance: Make cookie wings. Prepare Chocolate Roll-Out Cookie recipe. Roll out and use smallest oak leaf cutter from cookie cutter set to cut 2 "wing" cookies for each cupcake.

Step 2

Bake and cool cupcakes. Let cool completely on Cooling Grid.

Step 3

Prepare Buttercream Icing according to recipe. Combine Leaf Green and Lemon Yellow Icing Colors to achieve green shade used. Ice top of cupcake smooth with green icing and spatula.

Step 4

Prepare Chocolate Buttercream Icing according to recipe. Pipe tip 2A ball head with Chocolate Buttercream. Use white Buttercream Icing to pipe tip 3 dot eyeballs and black tinted icing to pipe tip 2 dot pupils and tip 3 to outline mouth. Use tip 3 and white icing to pipe pull-out fangs. Pipe tip 352 pull-out ears with chocolate icing.