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Creepy Halloween Cupcakes

You can really let your imagination run wild when it comes to ideas for Halloween cupcakes.

Ghosts, mummies, spiders, goblins, monsters all come visiting and you can have cupcakes to impress them.

Like all my decorating ideas, the Halloween cupcakes are all totally edible as I do not believe in using plastic or non-edible toppers. I use lots of coloured frosting and candies to create wonderful effects.

Next to each picture I have listed what I have used and given a brief description of how the "look" is achieved. I promise they are really easy. My nine year old daughter helped me with these and we had great fun.

ghost cupcakes Frost cupcakes with easy frosting or buttercream frosting. I added blue food colour but you could use black as well. I had some fondant so rolled this so that it was reasonably thin and then cut it to look like a ghost. You could also use white milk bottle sweets and roll them out to flatten them a little. Use edible black decorating gel for eyes.

My daughter had great fun decorating this cupcake. We frosted it with easy frosting that we had coloured red. We used a marshmallow for the eye and edible black decorating gel for the eye and for drawing the mouth.

witch cupcake

My daughter also decorated this cupcake. We used green easy frosting to cover the cupcake. Edible black decorating gel was used to draw the face and a piece of licorice was cut to form a witch's hat. We used red shoestring licorice for the hair but you could also draw hair with decorating gel.

For the mummy cupcakes I cut fondant into thin strips and then placed them on the cupcake so that they were slightly overlapping each other. I used edible black decorating gel for eyes, but you could also use melted chocolate that could be piped on, or small chocolate buttons.

These vampire cupcakes look so effective but they are so quick to decorate. I used red easy frosting and then with edible black decorating gel I drew on the vampire face and hair. I used edible white decorating gel for the fangs.

spiderweb cupcakes

Frost cupcakes with easy frosting - you can use any colour. I then piped lines across the cupcake and joined them with the circles. Really easy. You can pipe either decorating gel or melted chocolate.

Other suggestions:

Frost with easy frosting and pipe the words "BOO", "Happy Halloween" etc on in a contrasting colour.

Use orange easy frosting and add a green sweet to be a stalk - and you've got a pumpkin! Add a face if you wish.

Use red easy frosting, add a green sweet for a stalk so that it resembles an apple. Place a lolly snake or worm so that it appears to be wiggling it's way out of the apple!

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