Candy Corn Cupcake Trifles

Ingredients:

• Paper baking cups
• 1 package vanilla cake mix with pudding
• Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
• ½ tsp. orange food coloring paste
• ¼ tsp. yellow food coloring paste
• 12 (8 oz.) jars of other half-pint jars
• 2 (12 oz.) containers whipped ready-to-spread white frosting
• 1 ½ cups candy corn

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place paper baking cups in 2 (12 cup) muffin pans. Prepare cake mix according to package directions, using water, oil, and eggs. Divide batter in half; tint half of batter orange and other half yellow. Spoon orange batter into 12 muffin cups and yellow batter into remaining muffin cups.

Bake 350 degrees F for 18 to 20 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire rack. Cool completely (about 30 minutes).

Remove paper baking cups. Cut each cupcake in half horizontally. In each 12 glass jars, place 1 yellow cupcake half and 1 orange cupcake half. Spoon 1 container of frosting into a large zip-top plastic freezer bag; seal bag. Cut off about ½ inch corner of bag. Squeeze bag to pipe frosting over orange cupcakes in each jar. Divide 1 cup candy corn evenly among jar and sprinkle over frosting. Repeat layers with remaining cupcake halves, second container of frosting, and remaining ½ cup candy corn.

Tested in the THASC kitchen. Photo by THASC.

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