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Tremors Cupcakes

Frightening molasses cookie Graboids with yummy fondant tentacles jumping out of Biscoff cookie sand. Easily turn simple vanilla cupcakes into Tremors Cupcakes and relive your favorite 90’s campy monster movie this Halloween!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
Servings 24

Ingredients
  

Cupcakes

  • 1 box vanilla cake mix
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/3 cup oil
  • 3 large eggs

Cookie Beaks

  • 1 package Betty Crocker Molasses Cookie mix
  • 1 stick 1/2 cup softened butter
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1 large egg

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

  • 1 cup room temperature unsalted butter
  • 6-8 cups powdered sugar
  • ½ cup cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Tentacles and Cookie Sand

  • Fist size amount of store bought fondant
  • 2-3 drops red food dye
  • 1/4 tsp cocoa powder
  • 15 Biscoff Cookies
  • 2 graham crackers

Instructions
 

Cupcakes

  • Preheat your oven to 350 F and line your cupcake pan with liners.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together all ingredients unit no lumps remain.
  • Fill each cupcake 2/3 full and bake for 18-20 minutes.
  • When finished, set aside to cool.

Cookie Beaks

  • Preheat the oven to 350 F.
  • In a large bowl, blend all ingredients with a wooden spoon or with a mixer until a dough forms.
  • Roll out the dough 1/4 inch thick between two pieces of parchment paper and place in the freezer to harden.
  • With card stock, draw one large oblong triangle shape, and one smaller one to create a stencil.
  • Using a knife with the stencil, cut your shapes out of the frozen rolled out cookie dough. 1 large triangle and 3 small ones for each cupcake.
  • If the dough starts to get to gooey, place it back in the freezer for a couple of minutes to harden again. Repeat if necessary.
  • Place each piece carefully on top of an upside down bundt cake pan and bake for 6-8 minutes.
  • Take bundt cake pan out when finished and allow cookies to completely cool before removing them off the pan.
  • Repeat the process until you’ve baked all the cookie pieces.

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

  • With your paddle attachment of your electric mixer, beat butter until light and fluffy.
  • Add 6 cups of the powdered sugar with cream and vanilla.
  • Mix slowly until its blended well, then beat on high for 2-3 minutes.
  • Add more sugar one cup at a time until desired consistency.

Tentacles and Cookie Sand

  • For tentacles, take a small fist size amount of store bought fondant and knead in a few drops of red food gel. Once the red is mixed in, add 1/4 tsp of cocoa powder and knead that in until the desired color is made.
  • For the cookie sand, take about 15 Biscoff Cookies and a couple of graham crackers and pulse in a food processor until you’ve created super fine cookie crumbs.
  • Assembly
  • Pipe vanilla frosting on top of each cupcake.
  • Dip or roll in cookie crumbs until frosting is covered.
  • Insert each cookie piece until the beak is formed.
  • Insert the tentacles inside beak.
  • Sprinkle a little more sand into each mouth.
  • SCREAM!