Preheat oven to 350. Prepare 24-2 1/2" muffin cups with cooking spray and
flour; set aside. Prepare cake mix according to package directions; stir in
cookie crumbs. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake for 25 minutes.
Remove from pans; cool on wire rack. Make cat faces on each of the
remaining 24 cookies: using some frosting, attach 4-1 1/2" licorice strings
for whiskers, 2 jelly bean halves for eyes and 2 chocolate chips for ears.
Let set at least 30 minutes. Frost cupcakes with remaining frosting. Stand
cat faces on edge on each cupcake. Place 3" piece licorice string on back
half of each cupcake for tail.

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Use a serrated knife to carefully cut 18 of the cookies into quarters.
Save remaining cookies for another use. For each bat, place 2 cookie
quarters 1/4" apart on waxed paper. Repeat with remaining quarters.
Melt candy melts. Drop about 1/2 teaspoon of melted candy at center
of each bat, connecting cookies. Use a toothpick to smooth melted
candy into a uniform circle. Cool completely before removing from
waxed paper.

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In the food processor, combine the eggs an sugar until
smooth. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda,
salt, cinnamon and raisins or nuts. Stir in the cooked
and mashed pumpkin. Turn the batter into two round
cake molds, greased and lightly floured. Bake in a
preheated oven at 350F for 40 minutes. Unmold and
stack the cakes, and ice with an orange - tinted
frosting.

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