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Chirping Chick Cupcakes

Please the kids with sweet and delicious cupcakes. Cake mix, ready-to-spread frosting and candies make them super simple.
Prep Time: 30 min
Total Time: 1 hour 45 min
Makes: 24 cupcakes
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1box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow or white cake mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
2containers Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white frosting
Yellow food color
24orange jelly beans
48small orange candies
1.Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Make cake as directed on box for 24 cupcakes. Cool completely.
2.Frost cupcakes with 1 container of frosting.
3.Stir a few drops yellow food color into other container of frosting. Spoon 1 heaping teaspoonful yellow frosting on center of each cupcake. To make beak, cut orange jelly bean lengthwise to within 1/8 inch of end; spread apart slightly. Press into yellow frosting as shown. Add orange candies for eyes. Store loosely covered.
Make the Most of This Recipe
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft):
Follow High Altitude cake mix directions for cupcakes.
How-To
If you have only one 12-cup muffin pan, cover and refrigerate the rest of the batter while baking the first batch. Then bake the rest of the batter in the cooled muffin pan, adding 1 or 2 minutes to the bake time.

Nutrition Information:

1 Cupcake (Cake and Frosting): Calories 270 (Calories from Fat 100); Total Fat 11g (Saturated Fat 3g, Trans Fat 2 1/2g); Cholesterol 25mg; Sodium 180mg; Total Carbohydrate 41g (Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 29g); Protein 1Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium 4%; Iron 2Exchanges: 1/2 Starch; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 2 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 3 
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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