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.
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.
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.
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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