Halloween pumpkin Cakes

Total time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

Make the chocolate cake following package instructions. Pour the batter into fruit cups, filling to within 1/2 cm (1/4 inch) of edges. Bake according to package instructions and allow to cool completely. Use a knife to cut tops off cakes, so that you have several identically shaped half-spheres that you put together to make balls, or pumpkins.
Dye icing with yellow and red food colouring in a 4:1 ratio. Careful: adding too much food colouring can make the icing runny. Add orange sugar crystals and mix well. Cover cakes with icing and reserve.
Cut leaf shapes from the marzipan with a knife or a cookie cutter, and use a knife to make veins in the leaves. Colour with undiluted green food colouring and green sugar crystals. Cut black licorice into pumpkin stems and cut out faces from grape fruit leather. Assemble pumpkins as shown in photo.
Refrigerate until serving time.