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Mixed Peels Muffin and Chocolate Cupcake

Ingredients

Cupcake

  • 1 envelope Dr. Oetker chocolate cake mix the rest of the ingredients stated on the back of the envelope

Muffin

  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 2 tsps baking powder
  • dash of salt
  • 2 handfuls of Australian mixed peel (well don't have to be Australian; mine were Australian as my Mum sent me some ?
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup molasses
  • 1 cup cold milk
  • 1/2 cup cold water

Frosting/Decoration

  • 1 tin storebought chocolate frosting 454 g; I used Compliments
  • Corn candies as needed for turkey decorations
  • Oval size cookies as needed for turkey decorations
  • Red and brown or black Cake Mate Scribbles (for turkey decorations)
  • Ghost-shaped marshmallows as needed and/or other shapes

Instructions

Cupcake

  • Grease and flour pan
  • Mix ingredients as instructed; pour 3 tbsps for each round of cupcake/muffin cup (makes 10).
  • Bake at preheated 350 F for 20 minutes
  • Cool before frosting and decorating (please see picture)

Muffin

  • Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. In a separate bowl, combine wet ingredients. Fold wet and dry ingredients together quickly, just until flour is moistened.
  • Spoon about 3 1/2 tbsps of batter into greased and floured muffin tins (makes 10 as well).
  • Bake at preheated 400 F for 20 minutes.
  • Cool before frosting and decorating (please see picture)

Turkey Decoration

  • Place corn candies upside down sticking into the frosted cupcakes/muffins for the tail feathers of the turkey.
  • Place oval cookies as head and wings.
  • Break the white tip of the corn candies and place as noses.
  • With the red and brown scribbles, make the eyes and the snoods