Hooting Halloween owls

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• Elaine

  2007-10-31 16:19:27.813172

  Elaine rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Taste as good as they look. We all had great fun making these

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• honeybee

  2007-11-01 23:55:50.077567

  honeybee commented on this recipe

  Loved the idea. Made these with large number of children at Playscheme No cooker available so did decorating only on ready made cakes, although it wold have been great to make the cakes.

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• greenlung

  2007-11-02 22:54:24.241552

  greenlung rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Have made these each Halloween, find the kids love them up to the butter icing goes on and then don't eat them. Next year will cover them with plain icing (not sure about colour of same) and then decorate. But certainly are great.

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• Lou's Folder

  2007-11-15 11:48:40.015822

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• jimbo@@

  2007-11-29 10:11:07.835803

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  Made these for a halloween party and they were a great success.

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• starlycarly

  2007-12-09 07:25:18.585794

  starlycarly rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Yummy! needed alot more malteasers though.

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• Carla

  2008-10-08 14:41:11.108801

  Carla rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Made these at Halloween last year and intend to make them again this year. Greenlung's idea of ordinary icing might be a good one as the adults seemed to enjoy the eating of these more than the kids, but they look very impressive!!

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• rachel_hallowell

  2008-10-15 23:25:56.438087

  rachel_hallowell rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I did this with my 7 year old cousin and she and I both loved it. They were fun to make and even better to eat! Mmm ...

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• Joanna

  2008-10-23 13:08:21.852985

  Joanna commented on this recipe

  These are really great cakes, easy to do and leave an impression! I have made them as mini muffins too to make them go further, just used different things for the eyes. I used more coco powder the 2nd time as mine were no where near as dark coloured as the picture with the amount listed above.

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• Jah_Mon

  2009-01-05 11:37:37.957546

  Jah_Mon rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Fab cakes, really cute & very tasty! I did cheat though and bought ready made buttercream, made putting them together a lot quicker!

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• Wendys Food

  2009-03-07 14:34:28.72748

  Wendys Food rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Excellent

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• Laura

  2009-10-18 14:49:44.693169

  Laura commented on this recipe

  they were yummy !

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• crazylady5zoeb

  2009-11-09 19:21:45.774472

  crazylady5zoeb rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made these last halloween and this year. Really yummy and look so cute. Very tasty and a great hit with the kids. -

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• cookingforgirls

  2009-12-06 05:04:21.893098

  cookingforgirls rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Great recipe. The sponge was really really easy to make and tasted really delicious. We tried to make them into robins, using smarties. It didn't really work, so they just became ugly bugs. They still looked good. (Used Betty Crocker chocolate frosting as I was in too much of a rush to make my own. Tasted lovely.)

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• chloe

  2010-08-16 10:12:27.225295

  chloe commented on this recipe

  IT looks very good but i wonder what Masters are???????????

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• MissDiddy

  2011-10-24 20:10:24.649947

  MissDiddy rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Fantastically easy recipe!! So yummy, lovely light sponge was very easy to make. My kids loved making/decorating them. The only change I made was to add 1 tbsp of cocoa powder to the buttercream otherwise my daughter wouldn't have eaten them. Really cute, they do look like little owls. Perfect for halloween!

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• BabyG

  2011-10-26 21:27:32.794059

  BabyG commented on this recipe

  I think it would actually taste much nicer if you put milk chocolate into it instead of dark because for kids like myself I think we would all agree in saying that milk chocolate is sweeter and not as rich. ;) but thanks anyway can't wait to ask mum if I can bake them as i tis halloween;)

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• JellyPops

  2011-10-27 17:25:42.116144

  JellyPops commented on this recipe

  How many eggs do you put in, 6 seems a whole lot, is it 1 or 2?

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• JellyPops

  2011-10-28 15:27:32.662904

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  was ok with the 6 eggs, nice fluffy cupcakes, my boys had a fab time decorating them :)

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• Huff Puffin

  2011-11-07 12:18:12.009952

  Huff Puffin commented on this recipe

  My daughter (8 yrs) loved making these. They were easy to do and although there was a lot of butter used.......they were delicious!

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Ingredients

• 280g butter , softened
• 280g golden caster sugar
• 200g self-raising flour , minus 1 rounded tbsp
• 1 rounded tbsp cocoa powder
• 6 medium eggs

FOR ICING AND DECORATION

• 200g butter , softened
• 280g icing sugar , sifted
• 1 tube orange ready-to-use icing
• 1 small bag Maltesers
• 1 tube choco M&Ms minis (use just the brown sweets) or Cadbury's mini buttons
• 1 tub jelly diamonds (just the orange ones)

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Makes 12

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Ready in 30-35 mins, plus cooling and decorating

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Ingredients

• 280g butter , softened
• 280g golden caster sugar
• 200g self-raising flour , minus 1 rounded tbsp
• 1 rounded tbsp cocoa powder
• 6 medium eggs

FOR ICING AND DECORATION

• 200g butter , softened
• 280g icing sugar , sifted
• 1 tube orange ready-to-use icing
• 1 small bag Maltesers
• 1 tube choco M&Ms minis (use just the brown sweets) or Cadbury's mini buttons
• 1 tub jelly diamonds (just the orange ones)

Per cake

615 kcalories, protein 6g, carbohydrate 68g, fat 38 g, saturated fat 23g, fibre 1g, sugar 54g, salt 1.06 g

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