HOOTING HALLOWEEN OWLS

Hooting Halloween owls image

Delicious and simple chocolate cup cakes to make with the kids at Halloween - real crowd-pleasers

Provided by Tana Ramsay

Time 35m

Yield Makes 12

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients

280g butter , softened
280g golden caster sugar
200g self-raising flour , minus 1 rounded tbsp
1 rounded tbsp cocoa powder
6 medium eggs
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)

Steps:

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.
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.
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.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 615 calories, Fat 38 grams fat, SaturatedFat 23 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 68 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 54 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 6 grams protein, Sodium 1.06 milligram of sodium