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Turn purchased or cake-mix cupcakes into fantastic and delicious Halloween fare in just a few easy steps.

Halloween Cupcake Trio

Cupcakes:
1 (16-ounce) container vanilla frosting
1/4 teaspoon orange concentrated paste food color
24 unfrosted cupcakes (purchased or baked from a mix)

Spider Webs:
1 (0.68-ounce) tube black decorating gel (not food color)
8 clean plastic spider finger rings

Eyeballs:
2 tablespoons vanilla frosting (from 16-ounce container)
8 candy-coated chocolate pieces
1 (0.68-ounce) tube black decorating gel (not food color)
1 (0.68-ounce) tube red decorating gel (not food color)

Graves:
1 (0.68-ounce) tube black decorating gel (not food color)
8 oval creme-filled peanut butter sandwich cookies
1/4 cup chocolate cookie crumbs
8 candy pumpkins

1. Place 3 tablespoons of the frosting in small bowl; set aside. Stir orange food color into remaining frosting in container until well blended and no streaks remain. Frost cupcakes.
2. To make Spider Web Cupcakes, use black decorating gel to draw spiral covering on top of each frosted cupcake. Drag toothpick through spiral from center out, creating a web. Press 1 spider ring onto each "web."
3. To make Eyeball Cupcakes, drop 1/2 teaspoon vanilla frosting from small bowl onto each frosted cupcake. Lightly press 1 candy-coated chocolate piece in center of each. Use black decorating gel for pupil and red decorating gel to draw red squiggly veins radiating around edge of white frosting.
4. To make Grave Cupcakes, write "epitaphs" on one end of each cookie using black decorating gel. Press cookies into cupcakes to form "gravestones." Sprinkle cookie crumbs around each "gravestone"; add candy pumpkin to one side.

Makes 24 cupcakes.

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING:
Serving Size: 1 Spider Web Cupcake
Calories 175 Calories from Fat 55

% DAILY VALUE
Total Fat 6g 9%
Saturated 3g 15%

Cholesterol 15mg 5%
Sodium 105mg 4%
Total Carbohydrate 29g 10%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 24g
Protein 1g

% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 2% Iron 0%

Exchanges: 2 Other Carbohydrate; 1 Fat
Carbohydrate Choices: 2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Recipe and photograph provided courtesy of Pillsbury and General Mills.