Itsy, Bitsy Spiders (Muffins)

"From pampered chef's Kids in the Kitchen cookbook. Fun for Halloween (although we no longer celebrate Halloween). Cooking time includes cooling time. Prep time is an estimate."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 5mins
Ingredients:
6
Serves:
12
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ingredients

  • 1 (14 ounce) pumpkin quick bread mix
  • 1 cup vanilla frosting
  • yellow food coloring
  • red food coloring
  • black licorice bootlace or purple string licorice
  • 48 48 black jelly beans or 48 chocolate chips
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directions

  • Preheat oven to 325°. Spray 24 mini-muffin cup pan and 8"-inch round cake pan with cooking spray.
  • In large bowl, prepare mix according to package directions for bread.
  • Fill each mini-muffin cup with batter. You will have remaining batter that you will spread into an 8"-inch round baking pan.
  • Bake muffins 13-15 minutes and bread 25-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  • Cool muffins and bread 15 minutes each.
  • Remove from pans and cool completely.
  • Place bread on serving tray.
  • Using a frosting decorator bag, fill with 1/3 cup frosting and squeeze out frosting to make a spider web design.
  • Squeeze out frosting left in bag and add to remaining 2/3 C of frosting. Use food colors to color frosting. See tip on making orange.
  • Refill decorator bag with frosting and swirl frosting over tops of muffins (in a circular pattern.).
  • Cut licorice into 2-inch pieces.
  • For each spider, press 8 licorice pieces into frosting for legs; add 2 raisins for eyes.
  • Arrange spiders on serving tray around the web.
  • Tip: To make orange food coloring, use about twice as many drops of yellow color as red and stir thoroughly.

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Reviews

  1. I made these for church bake sale tomorrow and they are just too cute! I made my own recipe for cupcakes since I'm not fond of most mixes. I used black/brown m&m's instead of rasins. A def. make again!
     
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I am a Christian wife and mother of 3 kids. Since my DH's high cholesterol, we've been eating better. I never used to like cooking. Since eating better, I've liked learning and preparing new recipes. My kids haven't reconciled themselves to the new eating yet. I grind my own grain and make all my own breads.?Working 2 hours a day in the local high school lunch room.??I am homeschooling my high schooler.? ?Also found out 1 child has multiple food allergies (wheat, dairy, tomato, chocolate, etc) and another is gluten sensitive. So, we just started (July 09) eating gluten and dairy free. I've been busy with getting our house market ready, even though it's not the best time for that.?
 
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