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Simple Cupcakes

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour

Mix thoroughly in order given. Pour half full into cupcake liners. Bake 375 15 to 20 min. Makes 18 cupcakes

Old Fashioned Chocolate Cupcakes

3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 2/3 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups sifted flour
2/3 cup cocoa
1 1/4 tsp soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/3 cup water

Combine butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla in a large mixer bowl. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. In a seperate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. add alternately with water to creamed mixture. Blend just until combined. Fill paper lined muffin cups 2/3 full with batter. Bake at 350 for 20 to 25 min. Cool Frost

Halloween Cupcake Decorating Ideas

For decorating cupcakes for halloween, make spider web cupcakes. Use orange frosting and squeeze chocolate frosting in a circle, then use the back of a knife to connect the web. Cut licorice gumdrops for a spider.

Wicked Witch - Frost with green icing; press on some M & M's for eyes, a candy corn nose, and licorice lace hair and eyebrows.

Black Cat Cupcakes - Prepare a white frosting or use ready-to-spread. Tint it orange, using 1 to 2 drops each red and yellow food coloring. Frost cupcakes. For each cat, slice a 1-inch black gumdrop into 3 pieces. Use small rounded end slice for head and largest slice for body; cut tail and ears from third slice.

Witches Pussycat: For ears bend hollow licorice twists; bend in half, insert in cupcake. Eyes are a black jellybean, halved lengthwize. Add red gumdrop nose, licorice strips for whiskers.

Hooty Owl: Eye outlines are "peel" cut from 2 orange jellied fruit slices. His owlish eyes are orange pumpkin candies; snip of candy orange slice makes beak.

Little Good Witch: Use licorice twist for hat and curls. Make hat crown like the cat's ears, but larger) Add bit of jellied fruit slice for mouth, halved licorice drop for eyes, a candy coated licorice stick for nose.