Mandarin Peel Mini Cupcakes Recipe
 
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Cute and festive mini chocolate orange cupcakes cooked in your orange peel!
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 24
Ingredients:
  • 24 Halo mandarin oranges
  • 1 dark chocolate cake mix (and ingredients from mix)
  • 1 cup juice from mandarins
  • 1 tsp orange extract
  • Prepared butter cream frosting
Directions:
  1. Cut each mandarin in half. The meat of the fruit separates easily from the peel. Carefully pull the peel away, keeping it intact as a cup. Set aside the meat of the fruit to squeeze for juice.
  2. Prepare the cake mix as directed, substituting the water that is called for with the fresh mandarin orange juice. Add 1 tsp of orange extract to the batter.
  3. Place each hollow orange half into a mini cupcake pan as you normally would a liner. Fill no more than halfway with your batter.
  4. Bake for approximately 16 minutes at 350 degrees.
  5. While cupcakes are baking, cut flowers from unused mandarin peel using very small flower cookie cutters.
  6. Once cupcakes have baked and cooled, top with the prepared butter cream frosting and the mandarin peel flowers.
Recipe by A Mom's Take at https://www.amomstake.com/mandarin-peel-mini-cupcakes/