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Bat Cupcakes
Ingredients:
- Chocolate Cupcakes: You can use homemade or store-bought.
- Chocolate Frosting: Homemade or store-bought.
- Candy Googly Eyes: Found in the baking section of most grocery or craft stores.
- Mini Oreos: For the bat’s face.
- Regular Oreos: Split and broken in half to create the bat wings.
Instructions:
- Frost the Cupcakes: Pipe a generous layer of chocolate frosting on each cupcake.
- Prepare the Bat Wings: Twist apart regular-sized Oreos and scrape off the filling. Break each half into two pieces to create wings.
- Make the Bat Faces: Dab two small dots of frosting onto each mini Oreo and press a candy googly eye onto each dot.
- Assemble: Insert two Oreo wings into the frosting at the top of each cupcake. Place a mini Oreo with googly eyes in front of the wings to create the bat’s face.
Happy baking! 🧁🦇
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