Spooks at the Office

Nutella-Filled Pumpkin Cupcakes with Spooky Vanilla Frosting

Oct 31, 2011 by The Cooking Bride

 

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I work for a company called GodwinGroup, the oldest and largest advertising agency in Mississippi.  One of the reasons I love working here is that they encourage creativity. We are allowed to have fun at work.

This is my first Halloween with GodwinGroup. I should have known by the email that went out a few weeks ago that people take Halloween pretty seriously around here:

 

Several people went all out with the costumes:

 

 

And the office decorations were pretty great:

 

 

Not to mention the food!  We really like to eat around here.

Kitty litter cake – German chocolate cake mix, vanilla cake mix, and pudding.  While it tasted good, very few people could get past the Tootsie Roll garnishments:

 

 

Our Traffic Manager makes some fantastic looking cakes, like this scary tarantula:

 

 

And this jack-o-lantern cheese ball was almost too cute to eat. . .almost.

 

By now, word has spread through the office that I have a food blog. So that kind of ups the ante when we have employee potlucks. What do you think that would do to my reputation is word got out that I brought something that tasted like crap? My readership could end up in the toilet!!  Honestly, it’s a little stressful.

Thankfully I found these yummy pumpkin nutella-filled cakes from Kirbie’s Cravings. I adapted the recipe for cupcakes since I don’t have a cute little pumpkin mold like she does. And since you can’t have cupcakes without frosting (because then it would just be a muffin), I covered them with my favorite spooky vanilla icing.  I used about four tubes of black gel icing for two dozen cupcakes.  Can You Stay for Dinner? has a great tutorial on making the spiderweb design.

Happy Halloween!

 

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