Pre-Halloween Fall Craft: Owl Cupcakes

Image via Pinterest

Image via Pinterest

If you’ve been anywhere on the Internet lately, you may have noticed that Halloween is trending. It’s only September!! We’re all about Halloween, but at least wait until it hits October to break out the costume ideas!

Even though in our opinion, it’s a bit too early to hop on the Halloween bandwagon, fall themed crafts (that happen to have orange and black color schemes) are totally acceptable! So here’s a fun and easy way to liven up your cupcakes with a fall twist: chocolatey owl cupcakes!

All you need is your favorite cupcake recipe, some chocolate frosting, some Oreo cookies, and orange and brown M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces.

Instructions:

Bake your cupcakes and frost with chocolate icing. Then, carefully split 2 Oreo cookies per cupcake (keeping the frosting fully in tact on one side of the cookie) and place them atop the cupcake as pictured. Garnish with two brown M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces candies to finish the eyes, and add an orange candy between the two Oreo sides to form a beak. Voila! Cute, yummy owl cupcakes that are perfectly festive and appropriate as a pre-Halloween fall crafty treat!

Do you have any fun fall recipes to share? Leave yours in the comments! And if you want to double your owl love, check out the Eve’s Addiction owl jewelry collection.

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Instagram THIS!

If you’re like me, you’ve been instagramming like its the latest fad…well, I guess it kinda is. Well! Now that you’ve got a boat load of images of friends, family, pets, and sidewalk cracks, what do you do? Fortunately, I stumbled upon this great blog of  Do It Yourself Instagram Projects that are pretty creative and neat. Hope you find one to enjoy! (Hint: some might be a great for Christmas gifts 😉 ) Cheers!

http://livingblog.marthastewart.com/2012/07/instagram-projects.html

Which one is your favorite?