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Hooting Halloween owls
Makes 12
Easy
Total time:
Ready in 30-35 mins, plus cooling and decorating
Delicious and simple chocolate cup cakes to make with the kids at Halloween - real crowd-pleasers
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- 280g buttersoftened
- 280g golden caster sugar
- 200g self-raising flourminus 1 rounded tbsp
- 1 rounded tbsp cocoa powder
- 6 medium eggs
For icing and decoration
- 200g buttersoftened
- 280g icing sugarsifted
- 1 tube orange ready-to-use icing
- 1 small bag Maltesers
- 1 tube choco M&Msminis (use just the brown sweets) or Cadbury's mini buttons
- 1 tub jelly diamonds(just the orange ones)
Nutrition: per cake
- kcal615
- fat38g
- saturates23g
- carbs68g
- sugars54g
- fibre1g
- protein6g
- salt1.06glow
Method
step 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.
step 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.
step 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.
