Black cat cupcakes for Halloween

Matthew Amster-Burton shared these black cat cupcakes at Serious Eats that he made with his 4-year-old daughter, Iris:

That sounds hard."

"We could use cupcakes." This is her solution to everything.

We wanted them to be black cats, of course, but my wife Laurie reminded me that black food coloring tastes terrible, so we decided on dark chocolate frosting. (Chocolate is my solution to everything.) For tails and whiskers, we'd use black licorice whips. For the ears, wedges of York peppermint patties. And for the eyes, white M&M's. At the party store near our house, they have one of those M&M's displays where you can choose from over a dozen colors. "We should get a few blue, just in case," said Iris.