• Preheat oven to 350°F and spray silicone skull molds with cooking spray and place on a baking sheet. Set aside.
• Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, spices, salt and sugars together and whisk.
• Add apple cider, applesauce, oil, eggs and vanilla and whisk until incorporated. Add a little black food coloring to give the batter more of a stone color. (optional)
• Fill bottom half of skull mold with batter and cover with top portion of mold. Bake at 350° for 16-18 minutes. Remove from oven, let cool for ten minutes and remove from mold to cool completely on a wire rack. Wash mold between batches, spray with cooking spray and repeat.
• Prepare cinnamon sugar. Combine sugar, cinnamon in a small bowl and mix. In another small bowl, melt butter in the microwave. Brush donut cakes with melted butter and then roll them in cinnamon sugar until completely coated. Serve. Store covered at room temperature for up to 2 days.

Tabletop Fire Prop

• I purchased a small tabletop fire prop on Amazon see link above.

  I used remote controlled battery operated orange fairy lights to wrap around the outside of the tabletop fire prop to give flickering lights below the flames.

  I taped red vellum paper about 3/4 of the way around the fairy lights so that it glowed more like embers. Leaving space in the back of the prop to allow for air flow.

  I added more tealights underneath the flame prop again to mimic the glow of embers down in the fire.

  Plug in the fire prop, and turn on your fairy lights then arrange your skull coals by staggering them and stacking them around the bonfire**.

  **Take care to make sure to leave some space between the cakes for air flow including leaving a gap in the back for the fan and to let the glowing lights show through them. Enjoy!