Candy Corn Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 12 pieces candy corn white
• 3  eggs 
• 2 cups fluffy frosting white prepared
• 12 pieces candy corn white yellow
• 0.3 cup vegetable oil 
• 1 cup water 
• 18.3 ounce cake mix white

Equipment

• bowl
• oven
• hand mixer
• toothpicks
• muffin liners

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners.
2. Place cake mix in a bowl, and pour in water and vegetable oil; add 3 eggs. With electric mixer on low speed, beat the cake mix with water, oil, and eggs until thoroughly combined, about 2 minutes.
3. Pour half the cake mix into a second bowl; divide the remaining cake mix in half, and place into 2 separate small bowls.
4. Color the largest portion of the cake mix orange by mixing in 4 drops of red food coloring and 6 drops of yellow food coloring. Into a second, smaller bowl of cake mix, mix in 10 drops of red food coloring, 12 drops of yellow food coloring, and 6 drops of green food coloring, to color that bowl brown. Into the last remaining small bowl of cake mix, stir in 5 drops of yellow food coloring to color that bowl yellow.
5. Spoon yellow cake batter into the bottoms of 12 prepared cupcake cups, filling them about 1/3 full. Spoon the brown batter into the bottoms of the remaining 12 prepared cupcake cups, filling them about 1/3 full. Spoon orange cupcake mix over the yellow and brown layers, filling the cupcakes about 2/3 full. Try not to jar or shake the filled cupcakes, to avoid mixing layers.
6. Carefully place cupcakes into the preheated oven, and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, 18 to 22 minutes. Allow to cool.
7. Frost each cooled cupcake with the white frosting; place a piece of yellow, orange, and white candy corn on top of each yellow and orange cupcake.
8. Place a brown, orange, and white piece of candy corn on top of each brown and orange cupcake.