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Halloween Cupcakes & the Tale of Untintable Buttercream

Have you ever had a baking experience that pretty much start to finish was a disaster?  I promised my friend at work that I would bring in cupcakes the Friday before Halloween. This turned out to be an unmitigated disaster.
I decided to make mini chocolate cupcakes with swiss meringue buttercream tinted orange, purple and green. [...]

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