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candyland pull apart cupcakes

phoenixmaine75 avatar
Recipe by
Melanie Ross
@phoenixmaine75
Rumford, ME

If you don’t have a large enough platter, cover a piece of cardboard (15x12-inches) with aluminum foil. You can also purchase shiny silver-colored cardboard rectangles for cakes at craft and fabric stores. To save time, unwrap the candies while the cupcakes are baking and cooling.

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yield 48 serving(s)
prep time 55 Min
cook time 2 Hr 25 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For candyland pull apart cupcakes

  • 2 box
    betty crocker supermoist white cake mix
  • water, vegetable oil and egg whites called for on cake mix boxes
  • 3
    containers betty crocker rich & creamy vanilla frosting
  • 1/4 tsp
    green food coloring
  • 1/4 tsp
    blue food coloring
  • 1 bag
    (14 oz.) fruit chews candy (55 candies)
  • 3
    sugar-style ice cream cones with pointed ends
  • 38
    small spiced gumdrops
  • 1
    (44 oz.) milk chocolate candy, unwrapped, broken into pieces
  • 8
    candy canes (2-inch) unwrapped
  • 12
    assorted fruit-flavored sphere-shaped lollipops

How To Make candyland pull apart cupcakes

  • 1
    Heat oven to 350. Place paper baking cup in each of 48 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and egg whites. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely.
  • 2
    Place cupcakes on platter, fitting snugly together and frosting rectangle. Frost cupcakes with 1 container of frosting. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Tint 1 container of frosting with green food color. Tint remaining container of frosting with blue color. Spread green frosting over cupcakes, leaving 3 cupcakes white in each of 3 corners. Frost the 3 corners of white cupcakes with some of the blue frosting. Arrange fruit chews on cupcakes to look like walkway. Fill ice cream cones with remaining blue frosting; top each with a gumdrop. Place ice cream cones in one area. Stand chocolate pieces and candy canes in the other corners. Arrange lollipops to look like a forest. Place remaining gumdrops randomly on cupcakes
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