How to Make Halloween Cupcakes

Whether you want to make Halloween cupcakes that are cute or creepy, these decorating tips will do the trick for your treats.

You Will Need

Cupcakes
Vanilla or cream cheese frosting
Green candies
Food coloring
Piping tools
Chocolate chips
Chocolate frosting
Chocolate sprinkles
Small red candies
Black shoestring licorice
Craft knife
Black licorice nibs or chocolate bars
Oval-shaped cookies
Graham crackers
Mini marshmellows (optional)
Red shoestring licorice (optional)
Chocolate coins (optional)
Candied lime slices or fruit leather (optional)

Step
Step 1: Make eyeballs

Make a bleeding eyeball cupcake: Put a green, candy in the center of a vanilla- or cream cheese-frosted cupcake and stick a chocolate chip into the middle. Then mix some red food coloring into a small batch of white frosting and use it to pipe wiggly lines outward from the eyeball.

Tip: Stick a chocolate chip-stuffed mini-marshmallow onto a piece of red shoestring licorice to make a dangling eyeball cupcake topper.

Step 2: Create creepy crawlies

Make a long-legged spider: start with a chocolate-frosted cupcake, cover the top with chocolate sprinkles, and add two red candies for eyes. Insert four 3-inch pieces of black shoestring licorice on either side of the eyes for legs.

Step 3: Go with a ghost

To make a ghost cupcake, pipe vanilla frosting onto a cupcake in the shape of a soft-serve ice cream swirl, about 1 1/2 inches high, and use mini-chocolate chips for eyes.

Tip: Add an unwrapped chocolate coin to some of the cupcakes as a mouth.

Step 4: Design jack-o'-lantern

Design jack-o’-lanterns: make orange icing, then use a craft knife to carve black licorice nibs or chocolate bars into eyes, mouths, and stems.

Tip: If you want green stems, cut candied lime slices or fruit roll-ups into the appropriate shape.

Step 5: Dig your own grave

Turn a chocolate-frosted cupcake into a gravesite by piping “RIP” on an oval-shaped cookie and standing it up into one end of the cupcake. Spread crumbled graham crackers in front of the headstone to represent a mound of freshly dug dirt. Happy Halloween!

Video

Credit: How to Make Halloween Cupcakes on Howcast

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