Black And Orange Cupcakes

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Black and orange Halloween cupcakes

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

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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.)
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.

Orange dyed prepared cream cheese frosting, the best frosting ever.
Spooky black cake!

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

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Vicky Ninja

18 Oct 10:09

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

queenfairypants

18 Oct 19:20

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

DIS.AR.RAY

19 Oct 06:21

Those look great! :D Very halloweeny :D

PB

19 Oct 06:56

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

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.