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Monster "Cake"

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15 min

total time

1 hr 10 min

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24 servings, 1 cupcake (78 g) each

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What You Need

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

1 pkg. (4-serving size) Jell-O Vanilla Instant Pudding

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

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 tsp. vanilla

6 drops green food colouring

4-1/2 cups icing sugar, sifted

1 tube (19 g) black decorating gel

8 Oreo Cookies, finely crushed (about 2/3 cup)

3 Jet-Puffed Miniature Marshmallows, cut in half

Make It

PREPARE cake batter and bake as directed on package for 24 cupcakes, blending dry pudding mix into batter before spooning into paper-lined pans. Cool completely.

BEAT cream cheese, butter, vanilla and food colouring in medium bowl with mixer until well blended. Gradually add sugar, beating well after each addition.

ARRANGE cupcakes on large platter or tray to resemble a monster's head; spread with cream cheese frosting. Use decorating gel to outline the eyes, mouth, scars and hairline on the cupcakes. Fill in the hair with cookie crumbs. Place 1 marshmallow half in centre of each eye; place remaining marshmallow halves in mouth for teeth. Keep refrigerated.

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Prepare as directed, using any flavour cake mix.

Candy Corn "Cake"

Prepare cupcakes and frosting as directed, omitting the green food colouring. Arrange cupcakes in triangular shape on platter, with 1 cupcake in the top row, 2 cupcakes in the second row, 3 cupcakes in each of the third and fourth rows, 4 cupcakes in the fifth row and 6 cupcakes in each of the sixth and seventh rows. Reserve 1/2 cup plus 2 Tbsp. of the frosting. Spoon 3/4 cup of the remaining frosting into separate bowl; stir in 4 drops yellow food colouring and 2 drops red food colouring until well blended. Add 6 drops yellow food colouring to larger amount of the remaining frosting. Frost the 6 cupcakes in the top three rows with the white frosting; frost the 7 cupcakes in the middle two rows with the orange frosting and frost the 11 cupcakes in the bottom 2 rows with the yellow frosting. Keep refrigerated.

How to Create Your Own Unique Cake

Let your imagination run wild and create your own unique cake. Just assemble the cupcakes into a shape such as a ghost, jack-o'-lantern or witch face, then frost and decorate. It's easy!

To arrange cupcakes in the shape of a monster, follow our pattern., Click here .

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I made this last year for my grandson's grade 3 class. They went crazy for it. Making it again this year for grade 4 class. He helps to make the cupcakes, AND helps to decorate, so not terribly difficult. It is Halloween after all. Have fun. We have fun making AND eating. Get your children involved.
posted by a cook | on 10/18/2012

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it's actually so cool to do it in halloween cuz it goes with it...
posted by a cook | on 10/13/2008

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so easy to do.. I'm not a artsy talented person but this looked good, I used the cookie crumbs and even has left overs to use on another desert.. I did find it hard, spreading the iceing over the cupcakes, but over all I'll definatly make it again
posted by twnsmum | on 12/29/2007

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This was soooo easy! I was in a pinch when I needed to make it, so I used an orange flavor cake mix (no pudding mix - although it would have been a bonus), a package white icing mix as I only had 1/2 the icing sugar needed, chocolate icing for the hair, as I was out of Oreo crumbs, and used a small ziploc sandwich bag with tiny hole in one corner for an icing decorator using the chocolate icing for mouth, nose, eyes, scar, etcera, as I didn't have enough of the recommended decorator's gel. So I guess I didn't really follow the recipe at all, but according to my picture, all went well. May I submit the picture?
posted by susan_thorne03 | on 10/30/2007

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I was able to make it with just 12 cupcakes. It looked so great, I was sad to see the kids pull it apart! I did my hair with icing but next time, I will definitely use cookie crumbs (a real time saver).
posted by lisalondon | on 10/29/2007

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I made this for my kids, they loved it. It was so easy, especially since I'm not very good at cake decorating.
posted by rbulmer | on 10/29/2007

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i love how this cake get pulled apart and its also very easy to make
posted by jtoreo | on 10/20/2007