Eyeball Upside-Down Cupcakes
These whole-grain cupcakes look right back at you. The fanciful topping of canned pear slices and cherries arranged like a wide-open eyeball mean that frosting is unnecessary, and by using corn-muffin mix for cake, the sugar is kept low and the nutrition high for an eye-popping Halloween treat. Ingredients: 4 teaspoons butter or margarine 2 tablespoons sugar 1 can (about 15 ounces - 16 slices) sliced pears in heavy syrup, drained and blotted dry 8 canned dark, sweet cherries, blotted dry 1 box (8 1/2 ounces) corn-muffin mix 1 egg 1/3 cup milk Non-stick baking spray 5 or 6 strings of black licorice or other color licorice Equipment: Non-stick muffin tin Mixing bowl Mixing spoon or whisk Sheet pan Scissors Preparation: Heat oven to 375°F. Coat the interiors of 8 cups of a standard muffin tin with butter. Sprinkle a coating of sugar on the bottom of the butter-coated cups. Arrange 2 pear slices and a cherry in the bottom of each prepared cup, arching the pear slices against the sides of the cups and placing the cherry in the middle, so that the arrangement of fruit looks like an eye. Mix the corn muffin mix, egg and milk in a bowl according to the package directions, and spoon into the cups over the fruit. Bake for 8 minutes; the cakes will have formed a crust and begun to peak in the center. Spray the bottom of the sheet pan with baking spray and place it sprayed-side down on top of the muffin tins to flatten the peaks of the cakes. Bake for 10 more minutes. Remove the sheet pan and the muffin tin and place the tin on a cooling rack to cook for 5 minutes. Run a knife around the edge of each cupcake and invert onto a cooling rack or lift each cake from the tin with a small, flexible spatula. Cool to room temperature. To Decorate: Cut the licorice into 3/4-inch strings and insert 5 or 6 in each cupcake protruding from under one of the pear slices to represent eye lashes. Makes 8 servings Nutrition Information Per Serving: Calories 200; Total fat 8.5g; Saturated fat 2.3 g; Cholesterol 32mg; Sodium 195mg; Carbohydrate 21g; Fiber 1.4g; Protein 2.8g ARE YOU READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/recipes_galore2007-holidays http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Recipes_Galore2007 Check them out [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
