Creepy Crawly Cupcakes
Kids love these creepy crawly cupcakes because they’re not only funny with the worm peeking out, but they’re yummy, too. These cupcakes look especially cute all gathered together on a plate. Place a few additional gummy worms around the plate like some worms have escaped!
1 1/4 C of water
1/3 C of canola oil
3 eggs
1 (18.25 oz.) box yellow cake mix with pudding
ready to spread chocolate frosting
24 gummy worms
chocolate cookies to crumble to add “dirt” to the frosting
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with paper cupcake liners. Spray the paper liners lightly with cooking oil spray.
Pour the water into a mixing bowl, add the canola oil, and whisk together.
Add the eggs and whisk again until well combined.
Add the cake mix powder and stir with a spoon until blended in well.
Fill the paper liners 2/3 full of the batter, and bake for 20 to 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cupcakes comes out clean.
Remove the cupcakes to a wire rack and cool for 20 minutes.
Using a wooden spoon handle make a hole in the center of each cupcake for the worms to come out of.
Place the frosting into a baggie and snip one corner off the bag. Squeeze the frosting into the holes on the cupcakes allowing enough to come out the hole on top to spread over the top of the cupcake.
Press a gummy worm into the frosting hole of each cupcake leaving a portion of the worm “crawling” over the edge of the cupcakes.
Sprinkle the chocolate cookie crumbles over the frosting to form the “dirt.”
Place the cupcakes together on a big platter.
Decorate the platter with additional “dirt” and worms around the bottom.
Makes 24 cupcakes