Franken-Cupcakes

Boo! 

It's that spooky time of year and tomorrow we are going over to my sister-in-law and brother-in-law's house to see all of our nieces and nephews dressed up for halloween.  I was asked to bring cupcakes so I tried to think of something kids would like.  What better than OREOS?!  I followed the recipe from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen here but made some tweaks to it. 

I wanted the cupcakes to be very "Halloweeny" so I decided to use the orange holiday Oreos.  Let me tell you, you can't find these things everywhere.  Our grocery store had 12 different types of Oreos but not the orange filled ones...So I had to make a second stop to Target.  Even there they were hiding on an end cap in the back of the store hidden amongst all of the Halloween candy and above the Christmas Oreos!  Really Christmas Oreos already????  Target has already transitioned into the red and green holiday.  I wonder what they do with all of the left over Halloween specific items, like the orange Oreos?  hmmmmm...

So in order to make these Franken-Cupcakes I decided to make them different colors.  Kids like colors right?  I divided the batter into three bowls and dyed each one a different Halloween colors, orange, purple, and green.

I put in a spoon of each color on top of the Oreo at the bottom and swirled it around to make it look tye-dyed.

They baked a little funky and looked like little mountains in the center but that's OK.  I'm assuming this happened because there was an Oreo at the bottom and therefore the batter couldn't expand in the paper and had nowhere to go but up.  No worries, I was going to frost them anyway.

Can you guess what this is???  If you grew up in the '90s you might say it's slime, a la Double Dare or pretty much any Nickelodeon game show.

I always wondered what the slime was made of and if it was edible or not. 

 Well obviously I did not put slime or gak into the cupcakes so it must be the cream filling!  I don't think our nieces and nephews will get the Double Dare or even Nickelodeon reference but I think they'll like it just the same.  This is also why I called them Franken-Cupcakes.  When I put the lid back on the cupcakes the "slime" oozes out :)

 Covered in frosting you can't see the mountain underneath :)

All packaged and ready to go for tomorrow.

Hubby Rating:

Cake:  9

Filling:  9.5

Frosting:  9.5

Overall:  9.4

Wow he's getting technical with these scores.  I'm surprised he hasn't made score cards yet....

He's even taken to asking for an accompanying drink, this time it was chocolate milk.  

Happy Bakingween,

Kristi 

 The only other edit I made to the original recipe was to dye the frosting orange.  Again, think the kids will like it.  I like the way they came out.  The frosting was a nice consistency to pipe and I did not encounter any clogged piping bags this time. :)  Maybe that's because I stressed the importance of smashing the Oreos to a fine ground to my best baking assistant, the hubs.  He probably took about 10 minutes making sure they were pulverized, much to our downstairs neighbor's dismay.

I always wondered what the slime was made of and if it was edible or not.