Create Spooky Sports Day

Ingredients for the Decoration:

• 700g (1¾ tubs) Betty Crocker™ Velvety Vanilla Icing
•  Orange, green and purple food colouring pastes or gels
• About 55 edible candy eyeballs
• 1 small tube black writing icing

Preparing the Cupcakes

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C for fan assisted ovens)/Gas Mark 4. Line 2 x 12-hole muffin trays with paper cupcake cases.
2. In a mixing bowl, stir the cake mix, oil, water and eggs gently together, then whisk (by hand or electric mixer) for 2-3 minutes until smooth and creamy. Divide the mixture evenly between the cupcake cases.
3. Bake both trays together in the oven for 18-22 minutes. Remove from the oven and transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely; about 30 minutes.
4. The cupcakes will keep in a cool place for up to 2 days.

Colouring the icing:

1. Reserve 100g of the icing and divide the rest equally between 3 bowls (200g in each).
2. Use the food colouring pastes or gels to colour each bowl of icing bright orange, green or purple.

Mummy Cupcakes

(Makes 12)

• Frost 12 cupcakes with the coloured icings (4 in each colour).
• Spoon the reserved uncoloured icing into a disposable piping bag and snip off the end.
• Pipe the icing over each cupcake in zig-zag lines to resemble bandages.
• Attach 2 candy eyeballs to each cupcake.

Monster Cupcakes

(Makes 12)

• Fit 3 disposable piping bags with small star or grass/hair piping nozzles.
• Spoon 1 colour of the remaining icings into each bag.
• Pipe the icings onto the 12 remaining cupcakes to look like monster’s fur and to give funny features such as spiky hair.
• Dot each cupcake with 2-3 candy eyeballs.
• Use the black writing icing to pipe mouths and eyebrows on some of the cupcakes.