Recipe: Delicious Ladybirds Easy Black Cat Cup Cakes

Ladybirds Easy Black Cat Cup Cakes. If a black cat crosses your path, we hope it's one of these cute chocolaty creations. These black bottom cupcakes are made with a cake mix. Quick and easy for the baker on the run.

Frighten away those chocolate urges with this hauntingly delicious chocolate cake cut and frosted to look like a black cat. So easy anyone can make it! Note: This recipe will yield two cakes, so feel free to halve the portions. or enjoy one cake WITH your cat! You can have Ladybirds Easy Black Cat Cup Cakes using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Ladybirds Easy Black Cat Cup Cakes

1. 🢂 1 of pkt or box , store bought chocolate cake mix , or cake mix of your choice.
2. 🢂 1 of or premade cupcakes/muffins.
3. 🢂 1 of long black licorce strap.
4. 🢂 1 cup of store bought or home made chocolate fudge frosting.
5. 🢂 12 large of yellow M&M's.
6. 🢂 6 large of brown M&M's.
7. 🢂 1 of black icing gel pen.

Use the cornflour on your work tops to stop the icing Now your cakes are ready to serve. Top tip for making Ladybird cupcakes. If your cupcakes are perfectly round you may not. Black Cat Cupcakes are chocolatey from bottom to top.

instructions Ladybirds Easy Black Cat Cup Cakes

1. Prepare cake mix according to directions , then pour mixture into cup cake/muffin tray holes and cook according to directions , once cooked set aside to cool completely . (makes about a dozen).
2. Whilst the cakes are cooling , take the yellow M&M's and the black gel pen , and working with one at a time draw a line down the center of the yellow M&M , from top to bottom . To create the cats eyes . Repeat with all remaining yellow M&M's and the gel pen then set aside for the gel icing to set ..
3. Using the licorice strap , cut 6 by 2cm , square pieces then cut them into two triangles evenly , so you have 12 triangles , to create the cats ears . Then cut 6 by 4cm , long thin strips , to create the cats tails , finally cut 36 by 2cm , thin strips , so to create the cats whiskers ..
4. Now the cakes are cooled completely , using the chocolate fudge icing , evenly ice all over the tops of the cupcakes to coat all over the top to represent the cats fur ..
5. Place the iced cakes into pairs , joining the two together to represent the cats head and body ..
6. Now take 2 , per cake pair , of the licorice triangles , and place them up top end of the first cake in the pair so to create the cats ears on it's head . Repeat with all remaining cakes and ears ..
7. Take 2 , per cake pair , of the prepared black stripped M&M and place them just under the licorice ears on the first cake in the pair so to create the cats eyes , then place one brown M&M , per cake pair , in the middle just under the eyes , so to create the cats nose . Repeat with all remaining cakes , eyes and noses ..
8. Taking 6 , per cake pair , of the smaller thin strips of the licorice , place 3 each side of the nose on the first cake , so to create the cats whiskers . Repeat with all remaining cakes and whiskers ..
9. Now taking the last 6 longer thin strips of the licorice , 1 per cake pair , and placing them at the end of the second cake in the pair , just above center , so to create the cats tails . Repeat with all remaining cakes and tails ..
10. Once all are completed , serve one a cake platter and serve cool . Enjoy . :-).

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