Delicious Hooting Halloween Owls Cup Cake

Delicious and simple chocolate cup cakes to make with the kids at Halloween - real crowd pleasers. Kids sure will love it much ! I have tried this cup cake before, and the result is quite fantastic ! My hubby commented that it taste like those selling in bakery shop. This really lighten my heart very very much ! This is the original recipe that I have used, for my version i have adapted abit by adding some salt to the flour & evaporated milk for softer texture. Hope you like It !

Preperation and cooking times

Ready in 30-35 mins, plus cooling and decorating

Freeze cake bases only

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)

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, salt 1.06 g

(Adapted from bbcgoodfood.com)