Spooky Skeleton Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1. 10 Chocolate Cupcakes
2. 1 stick (1/4 lb.) unsalted butter
3. 1/2 cup shortening
4. 3 cups confectioners' sugar
5. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
6. 1/8 teaspoon salt
7. 20 brown M&M's
8. 1 long strand black licorice
9. 25 white mini jellybeans
10. 10 mini Chocolate Cupcakes
11. 1 (9 oz.) box chocolate wafers

Directions:

1. Beat together butter and shortening for 2 minutes. Slowly beat in confectioners' sugar. Add vanilla and salt; beat for 1 minute. Mound 1/4 cup frosting in center of top of each larger cupcake.
2. For faces, add M&M's, pieces of licorice and halved jellybeans (see photo).
3. For hats, dab frosting on mini cupcakes, invert and stick to chocolate wafers. Put one on each icing mound.
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