Recipe: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cupcakes

March 29, 2016 by Joanna Harrison

Recipe: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cupcakes

Wow the kids with these Turtle power cupcakes from www.bettycrocker.com!

Ingredients

• 1 box Betty Crocker™ SuperMoist™ cake mix (any flavor)
• Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
• 1 container Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
• Green food color
• 4 rolls Betty Crocker™ Fruit by the Foot™ Flavor Mixers chewy fruit flavored snack (from 4.5-oz box)
• 48 candy eyes
• 1 tube (0.68 oz) Betty Crocker™ black decorating gel or 1 container Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
2. In small bowl, mix vanilla frosting and green food color until desired shade; frost cupcakes. Unroll fruit snack, and cut off 4-inch strips of desired colors to make masks on cupcakes. Place cut strip on cutting board. Starting about 1 inch from left side of fruit snack, use small sharp knife to cut small horizontal slits for eyes about 1 inch apart. Place candy eyes under slits in fruit snacks. Cut small horizontal slit in fruit snack on right side to form tie for mask. Place masks on cupcakes.
3. Use gel to make mouths on cupcakes. Or place chocolate frosting in small resealable food-storage plastic bag, and cut off small corner of sealed bag; pipe mouths on cupcakes.