"Eyeball" Cupcakes

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15 min

total time

40 min

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2 doz. or 24 servings, one cupcake (82 g) each

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What You Need

1 pkg. (2-layer size) chocolate cake mix

1 pkg. (4-serving size) Jell-O Chocolate Cooked Pudding and Pie Filling

1 pkg. (250 g) Philadelphia Brick Cream Cheese, softened

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 tsp. vanilla

4 cups icing sugar, sifted

24 ring-shaped chewy fruit snacks

24 miniature candy-coated chocolate pieces

Red decorating gel

Make It

PREPARE cake batter as directed on package; blend in dry pudding mix. Spoon evenly into 24 paper-lined medium muffin cups. Bake as directed on package for cupcakes. Cool completely.

BEAT cream cheese, butter and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Gradually add sugar, beating well after each addition. Spread evenly onto cupcakes.

PLACE 1 fruit snack on top of each cupcake. Add 1 candy-coated chocolate piece to centre of each to resemble an eyeball. Draw squiggly lines with decorating gel around the eyes to resemble veins.

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Prepare as directed, using any flavour cake mix.

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TO "a cook" and others: my child cannot have dyes, tartrazine, BHT/BHA, TBHQ, or artificial sweeteners. My best advice; do what I do :) I use fruit juice or berry purees in my icings to add colour and awesome flavour! As for the candy eyes, we used dried mini-apple rings and banana chips. :) Happy baking and Happy Halloween!
posted by a cook | on 10/12/2011

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We can't have nuts or gelatin at school. Are there any treats that I can make that don't contain these ingredients? The round gelatin candy for the eye is out as well as the red gel icing. Any ideas?
posted by a cook | on 10/22/2009

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What an great idea and SO simple! It's impossible to ruin these or not have them turn out great! I made a batch yesterday for my daughter's grade 1 class and I'm making some for my son's preschool class today... I can't wait to bring them to their classes tomorrow! The only change I made was the icing. I used store-bought since my kids don't like cream cheese icing... crazy, I know!
posted by mum2honeybee | on 10/30/2008

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A real success at the bake sale at the school. A definite make again!
posted by a cook | on 10/29/2008

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posted by bonclaire | on 3/21/2008

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I subsituted upside down dark chocolate chips for the smarties in the middle of the eye. Good color contrast and bottom of chocolate chips made a nice flat circle. My son's class loved these for their Halloween party!
posted by magicthree | on 11/17/2006

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Made these for my son's Halloween lunch at School....everybody loved them...sooo easy to prepare too!!!thanks
posted by genfr99 | on 10/31/2006

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Oh my goodness...My 5 year old son thought these were great for his Kindergarten class. He scared my husband numerous times with them. He got a HUGE kick out of them.
posted by amandaschleich | on 10/31/2006

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They were great to make, very easy and my 5 year old brother and i had fun decorating them. I would use a different icing for next time, he didnt really like the taste of it. As he said they were "gross" looking and everyone was going to love them!
posted by Gazeera | on 10/29/2006

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this was fun to make withthe kids!
posted by a cook | on 10/25/2006