Halloween Swirled Cupcakes

Cupcakes

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place orange cupcake papers in a cupcake pan.
2. Prepare the boxed cake mix like instructed. Mine required 3 eggs, ⅓ cup butter and 1 cup of water. Be sure to use what your boxed cake mix requires.
3. Divide the batter in half. Add in black gel paste color to one half and electric orange gel paste color to the other.
4. Fill the cupcake liners about 3/4 full of of half orange and half black batter. I made sure the black was on top. Give it a quick swirl. I covered up any orange that came to the surface with a little black batter.
5. Place into the oven and bake for 23 minutes or until done. Check with a toothpick. If it comes out clean or with moist crumbs, it's done. If there's batter, let it bake a little longer.
6. Let cool completely.
7. Wrap the spiderweb cupcake wrappers around the cupcakes and tape the wrappers.
8. Frosting
9. In a mixing bowl, add the butter, powdered sugar and heavy cream. Mix on low until the powdered sugar is incorporated.
10. Turn the mixer on high and whip for about 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
11. Divide the frosting into thirds.
12. Color each third the one of the halloween gel paste colors. I combined the electric purple and regal purple to get the perfect purple, in my opinion. Add as much or as little. I added quite a bit to get the deep colors.
13. Place the three colors of frosting in a piping bag that's been fitted with a star tip. Be sure to use a large piping bag so you won't have to refill it. If you only have a smaller piping bag, be sure to wash it out before reusing it to keep the colors bright. Try to gets all of the colors the entire length of the bag.
14. Add a nice tall swirl of frosting to each cupcake.
15. Garnish with some festive sprinkles.