Cauldron Cupcakes
Ingredients
- baked cupcakes
- chocolate frosting
- mini chocolate donuts cut in half - making two thin donuts
- green frosting I used store-bought vanilla frosting & dyed it green with my Adams food coloring
- red sanding sugar I like Wiltons
- pretzel sticks
- cotton candy
- black licorice strings
For the chocolate frosting:
- 2/3 cup butter softened
- 5 3/4 cups powdered sugar I use Dixie Crystals
- 1 1/3 cup cocoa
- 1 heaping cup heavy cream
Instructions
To assemble the cupcakes:
- Lightly frost the cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
- Place a halved chocolate donut on each cupcake, & cover with frosting - leaving the center of the donut hole empty.
- Dip the bottom edge of the frosted cupcake in red sanding sugar
- Pipe green frosting into the center of the donut hole (I used a ziplock bag with the corner snipped off) letting it 'bubble' out for effect
- Stick a small piece of cotton candy on the green frosting for cauldron smoke
- Fit a licorice string over top for the cauldron handle, burying the ends in the cupcake
- Pop a pretzel stick inside the donut hole for the cauldron stirrer
- ALL DONE!!
To make the frosting:
- Beat butter until creamy. Add in the powdered sugar, cocoa, butter, vanilla extract & heavy cream. Stir until combined, and then beat at high speed until creamy. Spread frosting between the cake layers and on top and sides of the cake.