Cupcakes:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and line pans with cupcake liners.
2. Sift cake mix into a large bowl to remove any lumps and add the remaining cake ingredients. Stir until smooth.
3. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full and bake for 15-20 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Let cool.

Skeletons:

1. Cut your dowels into small pieces. Melt a few squares on your almond bark, this is the "glue" to hold the pretzels to the dowel. Put a small amount of melted bark onto the straw near the top half and slide a pretzel onto the stick and into the melted bark. Repeat this step with 2 more pretzels to make your "ribcage".
   1. TIP: Before you place the dowel in your cupcake, allow the pretzels/ribcage to set/dry. We recommend holding the dowel on each side and letting pretzels hang down from the edge of a table or counter.
2. Now, draw your skeleton's face onto a marshmallow with black food coloring gel. Once dry, push it onto the top of the dowel.
3. Push the whole dowel into your cupcake.
   

Recipe Notes: If you don't have lollipop dowels, you can substitute them with straws.