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Candy Corn Halloween Cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes

  • Cake batter of your choice enough to yield 12 cupcakes (I made Vegan Golden Cupcakes)
  • Yellow gel food coloring
  • Pink or red gel food coloring

Icing

  • 2 lb powdered sugar 1 bag
  • 2/3 c milk of your choice
  • 1 c organic shortening look for Spectrum brand
  • 1 tbsp extract of your choice, I used almond emulsion

Instructions

Cupcakes

  1. Prepare batter according to recipe or package ingredients. Add yellow food coloring until the batter reaches a bright marigold color. Spoon 1-2tbsp of yellow batter into white or yellow cupcake liners. Add red or pink coloring to the remaining batter until a bright orange color is reached, then fill liners. Bake according to recipe directions. Cool completely.

Icing

  1. Mix together ingredients by hand, then whip at high speed until light and fluffy. Pipe onto cupcakes in a swirl shape using a large round piping tip (Ateco #808 works well)