Sweet Deliverance - Halloween Cupcakes That Even You Can Do!They'll be around later, a-knocking at your door. Trick: cheap-tasting, plastic-coated sweeties. Treat: homemade frosted Halloween cupcakes. Result: eternal popularity with everyone in the neighborhood.
Decorate Wickedly Fun Cupcakes for Halloween - Whether you're starting with home-baked or store bought cupcakes, you can create creepy looks with dozens of ghoulishly good decorating ideas. Thanks to BHG for these great ideas!
Halloween Spider Cupcake: This eight-legged cupcake cutie sports a friendly grin for any festive occasion. Licorice pieces help create the
lengthy legs and sweet smirk.
1. Cover a cupcake with chocolate icing and sprinkles.
2. Attach sourball halves to circle mints using icing.
3. Place the eyes and a chocolate-candy nose onto the cupcake.
4. Form a smile with a small piece of red licorice.
5. Use eight long slivers of black licorice for legs and two short slivers for pinchers; cut into points and insert into cupcake.
Mini Monster Cupcakes: These monstrous Halloween cupcakes -- made
with frosting, gumdrops, and fruit leather -- are the perfect treat to serve holiday guests, or for anyone who gets a kick out of cute monsters.
1. Cut the rounded tops off cupcakes. Frost cut surfaces of cupcakes with black frosting.
2. Place a large gumdrop half in the center on top of each cupcake.
3. Spread green, orange, and purple frosting over cupcake tops as shown.
4. Place frosted tops over gumdrop halves on cupcakes, tipping each top back slightly to form a mouth.
5. For eyes, attach a small piece of black candy to a slice of marshmallow; insert a small piece of black licorice into bottom of marshmallow slice. Press into cupcake. (Or make eyes from gumdrop pieces and small black candies and/or marshmallow halves, gumdrop pieces, and small black candies.)
6. For teeth, cut marshmallows into pieces or use white small oval mints.
7. For tongues, lay a fruit leather roll flat; fold and press together to make four layers. Use scissors to cut out tongue shapes.
8. Attach candy circus peanut pieces to the fronts of cupcakes for feet (optional)
Marshmallow Mummy Cupcake: Slices of marshmallow create a cute mummy cupcake you won't be able to keep under wraps for long.
To make the cupcake, follow these steps:
1. Dust a frosted cupcake with granulated sugar.
2. Place three slices of marshmallow on top of the cupcake for the mummy's head.
3. Place two small mint candies between the top two marshmallow slices for eyes, using frosting to attach.
4. Put a candy-coated chocolate between the bottom two slices for the mouth, using frosting to attach.
Eyeball Cupcakes: These cupcakes have an eye out for you. A red velvet cupcake becomes Halloween party worthy with red
icing and doughnut holes.
To make the cupcake, follow these steps:
1. Use purchased red icing to pipe red zigzags atop a white-frosted cupcake.
2. Place a circle gummy candy on top of the cupcake using white frosting to secure.
3. Dip a small doughnut hole in melted white chocolate or icing; place on top of gummy candy for eye.
4. Use icing to attach a small chocolate candy to the top of a doughnut hole for the pupil.
Flying Bat Cupcakes: Everyone will go batty for these chocolaty Halloween cupcakes. A cookie, candy, and some creativity are all it takes
to make these tasty treats.
To make the cupcake, follow these steps:
1. Cover the cupcake with chocolate or colored sprinkles.
2. Break a chocolate cookie wafer in half; use purchased green icing to create wings on each piece of the cookie wafer.
3. Place a candy-coated chocolate in the middle of the cupcake for the head.
4. Make two dots for eyes using green icing.
5. Stick the decorated chocolate wafer halves on each side of the head for the bat's wings.
Easy Pumpkin Cupcakes: With such a simple design, these pumpkin
cupcakes can be made quickly for any Halloween event on your calendar.
To make the cupcakes, follow these steps:
1. Frost cupcakes with orange frosting and dust with orange sprinkles.
2. Use a wooden skewer to draw pumpkin veins radiating from the center to the outer edge of the cupcakes.
3. Break large pretzel rods into small pieces
Tip of the Day: When using a pastry bag for decorating, practice your design on a piece of parchment paper; you can scrape it off and use it again.
Orange you glad you created such fun little monsters? Now watch as they magically disappear.
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