Hooting Halloween owls

• butter↗280g g

  softened

• golden caster sugar↗280g g
• self-raising flour↗200g g

  minus 1 rounded tbsp

• cocoa powder↗1 rounded tbsp tbsp
• medium eggs↗6
• butter↗200g g

  softened

• icing sugar↗280g g

  sifted

• orange ready-to-use icing1 tube
• Maltesers1 small bag
• choco M&Ms1 tube

  minis (use just the brown sweets) or Cadbury's mini buttons

• jelly diamonds1 tub

  (just the orange ones)

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with brown muffin cases. Beat the first 5 ingredients to a smooth batter and spoon between the cases, almost filling them to the top. You may have a little left over. Bake for 20-25 mins until risen and spongy. Cool on a rack.

2. 2

   Beat the butter and icing sugar until smooth. Slice off the very tops of the cakes and cut each piece in half. Spread a generous layer of icing over each cake.

3. 3

   Working on one cake at a time, squirt a pea-sized blob of orange icing onto two Maltesers and use to fix a brown M&M on each. Sit the eyes, two pieces of cake top (curved edge up) and a jelly diamond on the icing to make an owl.