Hooting Halloween Owls

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

• Cooking Time Ready in 30-35 mins, plus cooling and decorating
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Makes 12

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  615

• Protein

  6g

• Carbs

  68g

• Fat

  38g

• Saturates

  23g

• Fibre

  1g

• Sugar

  54g

• Salt

  1.06g

Ingredients

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

Directions

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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