Dessert: Wicked Candy Bar Cupcakes

Delicious chocolate cupcakes that look like witches! Perfect for Halloween.

This recipe includes superfoods such as:

Cinnamon

Health benefits of Wicked Candy Bar Cupcakes

Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).

Ingredients

8 fun-size caramel and nougat chocolate candy bars, divided
3/4 cup unsalted butter, plus 5 tablespoons, divided
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/2 cup buttermilk, plus 2 tablespoons
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 (4 oz) bars semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
15 chocolate wafer cookies
15 sugar ice cream cones
2 cups confectioner's sugar, sifted
green food coloring
black licorice laces
30 red cinnamon candies
15 pieces candy corn

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 °. Place paper baking cups in muffin pans, and set aside.
Melt 5 candy bars and 2 tablespoons butter in a heavy saucepan over low heat, stirring until smooth. Let cool.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour, soda, and salt.
Cream together the sugar and 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons softened butter in a large mixing bowl at medium speed with an electric mixer until well blended. Add egg, beating just until blended.
Gradually add flour mixture to sugar mixture, alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Beat in melted candy bar mixture and vanilla. Spoon batter evenly into baking cups, filling two-thirds full.
Bake until a wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean, about 18 minutes. Remove from pan, and let cool completely on wire racks.

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