Name: Hooting Halloween owls
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 280g butter softened; 280g golden caster sugar; 200g self-raising flour minus 1 rounded tbsp; 1 rounded tbsp cocoa powder; 6 medium eggs; 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)

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Hooting Halloween owls

Hooting Halloween owls

Tana Ramsay

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Makes 12

Easy

Total time: 35 mins

Ready in 30-35 mins, plus cooling and decorating

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

Freezable (Freeze cake bases only)

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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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)

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Nutrition: per cake

kcal615
fat38g
saturates23g
carbs68g
sugars54g
fibre1g
protein6g
salt1.06g

low

Method

step 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.
step 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.
step 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.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2004

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