Hot Cross Black Widows

* Exported from MasterCook *

HOT CROSS BLACK WIDOWS

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 12 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Kids Misc
Halloween

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
To make muffins:
1 tb Butter or margarine
1 Egg
1/4 c Vegetable oil
1 c Milk
2 c All-purpose flour
3 ts Baking powder
1 t Salt
1/4 c Sugar
To make frosting:
4 oz Cream cheese -- softened
3 tb Unsalted butter -- at room
1 1/2 c Powdered sugar
1/2 ts Vanilla extract
Juice of 1/4 lemon
--or 1 teaspoon bottled lemo
Red food coloring
Yellow food coloring
Green food coloring
Blue food coloring
Black licorice strings

Recipe by: Creepy Cuisine, Lucy Munroe
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Grease the
bottoms, but not the sides, of 12 medium-sized muffin
cups with the butter or margarine. Beat the egg in a
large bowl with a fork. Stir in the vegetable oil and
milk. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar
in a small mixing bowl and stir together. Add to the
egg mixture. Stir lightly until the dry ingredients
are barely moistened. The batter should be lumpy. Fill
the muffin cups 3/4 full of batter. Bake for 20 to 30
minutes, or until the muffins turn golden brown.
Carefully remove from the oven, turn out of the pan
and set on a rack to cool. To prepare frosting, mix
cream cheese and butter together with an electric
mixer. Slowly add powdered sugar and continue beating.
Add vanilla extract and lemon juice, and mix
thoroughly. Put a small portion of frosting in a
separate bowl and mix into it a few drops of red food
coloring. Set aside. Color the remaining frosting,
drop by drop, with red, yellow, green and blue food
coloring until it is black. With a rubber spatula,
spread the black frosting on top of each muffin. Then
add a small red Black Widow hourglass to each one. Add
legs to your spiders using licorice whip strings. You
may need to cut the licorice into shorter pieces.
Place arachnids on a platter and serve. You may want
to decorate the platter with fake spiderwebs.

Penny Halsey (ATBN65B).



- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -