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Franken Goofy Cupcakes
Celebrate the spooky season with these extra special Goofy cupcakes!
Get the kids involved to decorate these tasty treats as part of your Halloween party?
- Batch of chocolate cupcakes, cooled and frosted with buttercream
- Wax paper
- Tray
- Rolling pin
- Kitchen knife
- Disposable food preparation gloves (to wear while shaping the candy)
- Small chocolate chews
- Lime fruit rolls (found in health food stores)
- Green or purple candy sprinkles
- Sliced almonds
- Chopped almonds or white chocolate bits
- White cupcake frosting
- Toothpick
- Chocolate chips
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Place a chocolate chew between squares of wax paper and flatten it with the rolling pin so that it measures about 1/2-inch square. (If the candy is too stiff, you can soften it a bit by microwaving it for five seconds or less.)
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Trim the now flat chocolate chews with a kitchen knife to resemble a flat topped Frankenstein-style head with tapered sides. Place the candy head on a wax paper-lined tray, and keep the candy trimmings to use later in step 8.
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Make heads for all the cupcakes and arrange them on the tray, spacing them a couple inches apart.
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Place two almond slices on each head.
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Next, make a muzzle, and chin for each Franken Goofy by cutting a lime frut roll into thirds lengthwise. Shape one of the thirds into a muzzle, wide enough to extend 1/4-inch or so beyond the head on both sides. Then cut another of the candy thirds into two equal pieces and shape one of them into a chin.
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Set the muzzle atop the upper edge of the chin. Add a chopped almond or white chocolate piece tooth to each side of the chin, tucking the top under the muzzle. Gently press the pieces together just enough to make them stick.
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Press the assembled muzzles atop the Franken Goofy heads on the tray so that they just slightly overlap the base of the almond slice eyes.
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Use bits of the reserved candy trimmings from step 2 to shape a tiny round nose (1/4 to 3/8 inch) and eye pupils (1/8-inch or so) for each face. Gently press the noses onto the muzzles. Use dabs of frosting (applied with the tip of a toothpick) to stick the eye pupils in place on the sliced almonds.
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Use the tip of a kitchen knife to score a 1/2-inch "cut" line in the top of each head, and then create stitch lines by scoring across the cut twice. Set a candy sprinkle atop each stitch line.
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For Goofy ears, cut the chocolate chews lengthwise into thirds. Shape each third into a thin curved ear, rounding the bottom and pinching the top to taper it into a point. Add a pair of ears to each Franken-Goofy head on the tray.
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Place the tray in the refrigerator until the candy is well chilled and stiff enough to hold its shape. Meanwhile, frost the cupcakes.
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Top each of the frosted cupcakes with a Franken-Goofy head. Add a pair of bolts to the top of each head by pressing chocolate chips (set on their sides) halfway into the icing, and chill the decorated cupcakes until serving time.