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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:

  1. Frost the Cupcakes: Pipe a generous layer of chocolate frosting on each cupcake.
  2. Prepare the Bat Wings: Twist apart regular-sized Oreos and scrape off the filling. Break each half into two pieces to create wings.
  3. Make the Bat Faces: Dab two small dots of frosting onto each mini Oreo and press a candy googly eye onto each dot.
  4. 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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