Duncan Hines® Recipe

Chocolate Birthday Cupcakes

Servings:	16 cupcake towers
Rating:	15 Discussions

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It’s a birthday cake tower made with chocolate cupcakes and a crafty peanut-buttercup top disguised as a tiny cupcake. Now you can truly have your cake and eat it too! These are easier to make than it may seem at first, and are sure to score points at any birthday party or special event.

1 box (18.25 ounces) Moist Deluxe Devil’s Food Cake Mix
1 can (16 ounces) Creamy Home-Style Classic Chocolate Frosting
18 mini chocolate peanut butter cups
1/2 cup each pink, blue, green, yellow and orange sprinkles
1/2 cup Duncan Hines Creamy Home-Style Classic Vanilla Frosting
Yellow and red food coloring
192 pieces white licorice pastels (Jelly Belly)

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 16 muffin cups with brown paper liners and 16 mini muffin cups with brown paper liners. Prepare the cake mix according to package directions. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans. Bake until cupcakes are lightly golden and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 18 to 21 minutes for the standard cupcakes and 10 to 14 for the mini. Transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack and cool completely.
Arrange the colored sprinkles in small shallow bowls. Tint the vanilla frosting bright yellow with the food coloring. Add a few drops of red and mix until almost all blended. Spoon the frosting into a freezer weight resealable bag and seal the bag.
Working on one cupcake tower at a time, spread the tops of a standard, mini and a mini chocolate peanut butter cup with some of the chocolate frosting and make smooth. Roll the edges of each cupcake and candy into a different colored sprinkle to coat. Assemble the tower from largest to smallest. Press the white licorice pieces all over the tower into the chocolate frosting as the candles. Repeat with the remaining cupcakes, frosting and candies.
Snip a small corner from the bag with the yellow frosting and pipe a dot on top of the white candies as the flame on the candles.

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I am making this for my friends B-day ;) No one tell her . Lol

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Cute idea! Maybe you could dip the sides of the cupcakes into the same colored sprinkles! :)

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Super cute idea!! If you don't like licorice try using pieces of candy sticks.

I am not familiar with white licorice sticks nor white candy sticks. Can you tell me where you get them or the name on the candy bag that I can look online for? Thanks

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I made these cupcakes and they were super cute! I made them with a twist because I just realized that the middle tier is actually a cupcake (which I did not know nor do I have a pan for mini cupcakes). Instead I used a wrapped reeses miniature cup and then for the very top tier i used a mini unwrapped reeses cup. I also used orange for the flame. I was unable to white the white licorice pastels in a store so I just used the white licorice from a box of good and plentys which worked out great and I put two in the cup cake and one on the very top. Great idea for someone's birthday thank you!