If your a busy person and pintrest seems a little to demanding (serious there are some great ideas there but I am often cooking or crafting with a wee helper hanging onto me and I need to do things cute but fast) and you still need a last minute treat may I suggest these cupcakes. While this batch ended up decorated as pumpkins I heartily endorse you doing whatever you have the time and talent for.
Ingredients:
1 boxed cake mix (I used a Duncan Hein's yellow cake mix but feel free to use a white cake, or funfetti, Duncan Hein's was on sale this week)
eggs and oil that the boxed recipe call for
1 cup room temperature orange Crush soda (or any soda really I bet you could get some interesting results using Jones)
Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare the cake mix according to box directions substituting soda for the water. DO NOT add soda and water. Scoop batter into lined cupcake tins ( I find that an ice-cream scoop works really well for ensuring even sized cupcakes but if your ok with no conformist cupcakes they all taste the same). Bake cupcakes for 18-21 minutes or however long your box instructs. Personally our cupcakes were done at the 15 minute mark. I would be really careful to not over bake. Cool, frost and decorate.
Our decorations where achieved by using a can of vanilla frosting that was tinted with red and yellow food coloring to desired orange shade. Assorted jelly belly beans (please keep reading for my disclaimer at end of blog before you add me to the list of people to boycott) where used as the pumpkin stems.
Cake has a delicious moderately orange flavor. I'm sure it could be enhanced with extract or zest. However I was again baking with a small person aka Mini attached to me. I generally don't improvise either on the first try with a recipe. Next batch I shall tinker and see what I can do to get a little extra flavor oomph.
Now the handy dandy disclosure. This blog is not sponsored by anyone. If someone wants to be a sponsor or have me endorse a product send me an email and we can talk. Until that time all products are paid for by me and preference is given to items I either all ready own or are on sale. The JellyBelly disclosure I all ready had them. In light of their current stance on gay/trans issues I will not be buying their products for consumption again. While I respect their right to do what they want with their profits I chose to support equality regardless of race, religion, or sexuality. So to sum it up, my blog my opinion, hate bad, and while I won't purchase products from companies that I don't agree with but I won't throw out unconsumed things that haven't expired.
Happy Halloween everybody, be safe out there.
Moe
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