Hooting Halloween owls

Hooting Halloween owls

Delicious and simple chocolate cup cakes to make with the kids at Halloween - real crowd-pleasers

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes 12

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 30-35 mins, plus cooling and decorating

Freezable

Freeze cake bases only

Method

  1. Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with brown muffin cases. Beat the first 5 ingredients to a smooth batter and spoon between the cases, almost filling them to the top. You may have a little left over. Bake for 20-25 mins until risen and spongy. Cool on a rack.
  2. Beat the butter and icing sugar until smooth. Slice off the very tops of the cakes and cut each piece in half. Spread a generous layer of icing over each cake.
  3. Working on one cake at a time, squirt a pea-sized blob of orange icing onto two Maltesers and use to fix a brown M&M on each. Sit the eyes, two pieces of cake top (curved edge up) and a jelly diamond on the icing to make an owl.

Per cake

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

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2004.

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  • 24 October 2012

    shellrossi rated and commented on this recipe

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    a fun recipe to do with kids-added cocoa to the buttercream-delicious!

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  • 06 December 2012

    Wdavison rated and commented on this recipe

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    Went down a treat!! Loved these. Adapted these to make christmas cupcakes.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Makes 12

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 30-35 mins, plus cooling and decorating

Freezable

Freeze cake bases only

Cute crowd-pleasers

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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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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