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Black And Orange Cupcakes

Black and orange Halloween cupcakes



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Description 

Easy, quick and inexpensive black and orange cupcakes for Halloween.


Instructions 
  1. 1

    These black cupcakes are made from Jiffy mix with 1/2 teaspoon of apple pie spice added. Jiffy mix costs about 60 cents and it is actually quite tasty. A mix makes about 8 cupcakes. The mix is recession proof and I like that it only makes a few cupcakes. It's hard to eat a dozen cupcakes, but eight I can manage. And if you've never had Jiffy cornbread, you're missing out. It's pretty damn tasty. (It does contain animal lard. Sorry, vegetarians.)


  2. 2
    Step 2

    I wanted to make black cake. I used black gel dye to color the batter. It takes a lot of dye to make cake black. I added 1/2 teaspoon of apple pie spice to give the cupcake at little something extra. Apple pie spice give the cake an "autumn" taste.


  3. 3
    Step 3

    Orange dyed prepared cream cheese frosting, the best frosting ever.


  4. 4
    Step 4

    Spooky black cake!


  5. 5
    Step 5

    Silver foil papers. The frosting was piped on using a Ziplock bag.


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Vicky Ninja

Vicky Ninja Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:09:10 +0000

I really wanted to make black cakes, but I've never come across black food colouring of any kind. These look awesome though!

 
Sugarlishes

Sugarlishes Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:14:53 +0000

these look so yummy!

 
queenfairypants

queenfairypants Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:20:03 +0000

you should make them again at xmas and put them in kids stockings so they think they've got coal!!!

x

 
DIS.AR.RAY

DIS.AR.RAY Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:21:43 +0000

Those look great! :D Very halloweeny :D

 
PB

PB Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:56:02 +0000

If you started with chocolate cake would it take less coloring?

 
jennifer e.

jennifer e. Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:08:20 +0000

Chocolate would require less food dye but as it was discussed in a baking community, some people do not like chocolate cake (gasp!). I do, but I wanted to create a cake that was "black" but not chocolate.

 
conitch

conitch Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:52:00 +0000

oh wow.. i love these :D

 
Alice Paddock

Alice Paddock Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:58:00 +0000

Veary nice pipeing job!

 

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