Instructions

1. Pull out all of the orange M&M's from a large bag of M&M's.  You'll need about 20-25 M&M's for each Halloween Pumpkin Patch Cupcake.
2. Bake cupcakes with black cupcake liners.
3. Finally make a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting and tint it orange and green.
4. Cover the top of the cupcake in green Buttercream Frosting.  We used a pastry bag and a Wilton Frosting Tip #233 to get this "grass" effect.  But this cupcake would also look great if you just smoothed on some green frosting with a knife.
5. The body of the pumpkin is a regular sized marshmallow.  Using our fingers, we pulled off 1/3 of the marshmallow from the top. Using a knife, we covered the marshmallow in Orange Buttercream frosting.  You don't need a lot of frosting here - apply just enough to give the M&M's something to stick onto. Then, place a dollop of the orange frosting in the center of the cupcake and place the frosted marshmallow on that frosting as shown in the pictures above.
6. With the "M" side down, start placing the orange M&M's around the Marshmallow.  Start with the first row before moving onto the second row.  For the top of pumpkin, add five orange M&M's and then a single green M&M to represent the pumpkin stem.