WHOO wants a cupcake?! I recently got a new cupcake book, The Cupcake Bible, and I am obsessed with it. There are so many great recipes and decorating ideas in it. I decided to make the apple cider recipe and decorate them like owls to continue the autumn theme.
Cupcake Ingredients:
1 package of spice cake mix
1 1/4 cups apple cider
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts, plus additional for garnish (optional)
Owl Ingredients:
1 package of Oreos (doubled stuffed would be easiest)
M&M’s – three per cupcake for eyes and beak
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Beat cake mix, apple cider, oil and eggs in medium bowl with electric mixer at low speed until well blended; beat at medium speed for two minutes. Stir in chopped walnuts if you’d like. (I’m not a fan of nuts so I left them out and the cupcakes were still delicious)
3. Bake 20 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minute. Remove to wire racks and cool completely.
4. I used powdered sugar and butter dyed brown for my frosting, but you could use any kind you’d like. I wasn’t sure how chocolate would taste with apple cider so that’s why I dyed it instead.
5. Separate the Oreos for the eyes, place them onto a freshly iced cupcake. Place an M&M on each Oreo in whatever color you’d like – I used blue and green to represent eyes. Place a sideways M&M in the middle of the cupcake under the eyes in orange or yellow for the beak.
I made mine into owls because I was taking them to a party and I thought it was cute. Obviously you don’t have to do this and you could ice your cupcakes any way you’d like.
Enjoy xx
Sweet Dee 